Oct. 4
google.com
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The other, called EXTRAS, defined but not referenced elsewhere. It contains two entries, pointing at these images: https://madeby.google.com/static/images/tenfour/extras/002.j... and https://madeby.google.com/static/images/tenfour/extras/001.j....
EDIT: oh, turns out this chap found it a while ago: https://twitter.com/hallstephenj/status/778033737040666624
As an aside, I find the attention to photography by Apple, Google, et al quite intriguing. It makes total sense. On social media, we posture, we put out our best self. Having sophisticated pictures (bokeh? yeah that'll make it look fancy. Not a lot of noise (as is the case for pics taken in low light)? that's another something). In a fantastic way, it is actually the best way to advertise the phone -- the photos people take do it for you! You see your friend's great low-light pics, and you realize your phone can't do that. That's like one of the few remaining forces to compel you to invest into a phone: a phone being a device that's increasingly becoming a commodity for its lack of distinguishing factors.
I wonder what will be the next area of war for phone manufacturers ... maybe AR/VR? Finally wireless charging that works well? Finally battery that can last days (of semi-active use) instead of hours?
1. The phone will be available on T-Mobile and Verizon (Magenta/Red)
2. Camera will be good under low-light conditions without flash.
Google might not remember but nobody bought the Chromebook Pixel or the Pixel C.
Their advertising is still ridiculously misleading. They say the "Verizon Plan" starts at $35 a month, but that's before activating a device (which is $10 for a tablet and $15 for a phone) and taxes/fees. Cheapest phone is going to be ~$55 per month, it's ridiculous that they emphasize the $35 in their advertising.
Eventually our version of FCC got around making it easy to complain if an operator would make someone's life hard regarding unlocking.
I mean with Project Fi the Pixel phones could be a equally attractive deal for Regular Joe but they would still have to advertise it heavily and offer better value through extended updates.
I have a N5, which came out (just) less than three years ago, and it is not getting Nougat, which was released a few weeks ago. The last major update it got was around a year ago.
AFAICT with Google you're guaranteed to get the next OS version, if you're lucky you'll get the next next one (like N5 did with MM), but that's it.
Which, compared to iOS, feels pretty stingy.
(I am no iOS fanboy, but honestly I'm sick of the android expectation of getting a new phone every 2 years, and they seem to be the only ones who are even pretending to give a shit with their old phone support. They still don't give as many shits as I'd like, but I cannot find their better).
If I wasn't so wed to Android the right thing to do would be to buy whatever iPhone was new at the time and ride it down until they stopped providing updates. Especially because (anecdotally, of course) iPhone battery life seems to last much better over time than Android, so not only will I continue to receive updates for longer, but it will actually be a usable phone for longer.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
I believe your overall point remains valid, though. The most recent hardware that can't update to iOS 9 is the iPhone 4, which shipped five years before iOS 9, and was last sold 3 years ago.
How botched are their security lockdown of their phones compared to the Nexus line?
Can't seem to find a list of CVE's fixed with each update (not in their changelogs, that they only post on the forum...) , based on that, they do not fix known security problems.
I don't think Google's new Pixel strategy will work well for them. My opinion is Android is inferior to Apple on almost every dimension and I own an android because it was $400 instead of $1k for iphone (7 is $650 + $100 for more than 32g storage + case + 3-5 headphone cables + applecare + tax). So I was hoping for a Pixel that was a good replacement for my Nexus 5 which just decided that using bluetooth should reboot the phone...
Granted these are more generalizations but they're a bit of a cliche for a reason. Still, the combination of a bit more flexibility and the ability to buy a Nexus (or that one time, a Moto X) for $350-450 instead of $650 and up for an iPhone has kept me in the Android camp for the past several years.
I've also been holding off on replacing my Nexus 5 and will still wait to see just what the word is on these new Pixel phones but I will say that the higher, more iPhone-like price means I'm likely to be less forgiving of minor issues or complaints that I'd just deal with on a device that costs 2/3 as much.
Just as my Asus laptop has a worse screen than a similar Macbook sold at the time but cost $950 instead of $2200 for otherwise similar specs, I have no problem accepting some tradeoffs for the right price. But if that Asus had be marked at $1950 compared to the $2200 Macbook, I might have just gone with the better viewing angles and better support record.
Still, it's all just speculation. We all make our purchasing decisions after we get a chance to evaluate all of the options. Until the devices and reviews show up, it's all a bit premature.
I'm pleased with the phone otherwise, and would buy it again.
This is precisely why myself and my wife are full-on Nexus users.
I don't want to go back to a dumbphone. I like having a computer in my hand. But what with privacy, the unsafety of apps, the crapware … what's the point anymore?
And this is why I won't attempt to it, since I really don't know what I'm doing. I'd love to use Cyanogenmod but probably won't until I buy a new phone that I feel more comfortable flashing a ROM onto. Looks like I'll just live with crapware for now :)
I have a Sony Xperia Z2 now and I chose the root option instead of the (available) Cyanogenmod install for it since Sony, while being very open to rooting etc., chooses to remove some image enhancement functionality on flashed devices. The root has enabled me to remove a lot of the junk and also install the Xposed framework along with XPrivacy. The latter enables fine-grained control of permissions by app.
Sure it is a bit of work but it depends on how you value your private data. I realize ultimately it might be futile but I am planning to put in as much effort as makes sense to protect my data as best as I know how.
What old Nexus line are you talking about?
Most[1] Nexus phones have been priced high at launch with fairly average specs, if not disappointing.
I believe the 6P is the one truly high-end Nexus, and then there's the 5X that was grossly overpriced everywhere but in the US, and finally the Nexus 4 and 5 which were very good deals from the get-go.
[1] Nexus One, Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 6
Ars Technica has a good summary in their "One year later" review of the Pixel C. The reviewer is on his 3rd Pixel C due to hardware failures. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/one-year-later-can-an...
Are you thinking of some active scanning technology such as LIDAR? Or the infrared grid-of-dots projection that the kinect uses?
I'm dreading the day my lame-o iPhone 5c with a slowly-dying screen becomes unusable, because it can go over 3 days without a charge provided I don't use the GPS. If I charge it at work Friday it'll usually still have ~40% charge Monday morning, having been unplugged all weekend. I barely even think about the battery level.
Sign me up for thicker phones with a bigger battery. And no stupid, ugly, scratch-attracting camera bump on the back.
Or maybe they are going to be the first with a full slab of glass on the front with seamless edge to edge display (hah yeah right) - if its not either of those things, they just set people up for massive disappointment.
>The requested URL /fourten was not found on this server. That’s all we know.
WELCOME TO THE FUTURE OF THE OPEN INTERNET /s
The redirect to madeby.google.com works now, I wonder what happened...
<title>Error 404 (Not Found)!!1</title>
So the 404 page was pretty much only seen by IT folk--people who would type in their own URLs instead of clicking links...
And those people, the people who type a lot... had probably seen the old meme in which the trailing ! in a string of !!! is replaced by a 1, as would happen if you were typing quickly and let go of shift a little early...
Travel with an Android phone, and watch the Play Store go bilingual, mostly in English, with random parts showing up in e.g. Spanish.
Interesting how the search box grew to include images...
Sounds a lot more like "10-4"
That's why I bought the first Google phone and I still use it.
Genuinely curious. I'd like to use a phone with a hardware-keyboard as my daily driver too, but the only ones I can find are so old their batteries have worn down to the point of being functionally unacceptable.
Regarding browsing, yeah, it's somewhat usable in emergency (the pages will load) but I never got very used to do it because the speed was always abysmal here (Czech Republic). The original Google browser still works.
So, I guess I cannot recommend buying one now (although perhaps with Cyanogenmod it would be better), but it works for me and I really wish I could replace it with something that has keyboard. :-(
To start one small thing I'd do is match Apple on the length of update support window.
That will win you over the tech-fanboys, but is that anything normal people take into account when they pick a phone? I probably hear more complaints about new versions of iOS "making my phone worse" than Android users complaining about not getting updates.
Also, it's a pretty reasonable assumption that users who don't care to be on the latest hardware don't care to be on the latest software.
As an aside: If your battery dies you don't have to buy a new smartphone, but just a replacement battery. On ebay it costs around 10 dollars with tools.
For most users a 5 year old battery is going to be completely useless and it's going to be attached to a screen that has been shattered beyond usability.
SD card slot
Extensions for Chrome browser on Android
+ something like PTT (push to talk) for video. Like Google Duo but with whatever high-level OS/hardware changes were required to make it work well.
+ edge-to-edge screen (thanks benmcnelly)
Why? Look at these people in the photos... They are hip (AF) and they are on scooters. They are mobile and care about appearances...
http://uploadvr.com/report-googles-daydream-vr-headset-calle...
...Okay, maybe not that.
But they don't all redirect, so that is interesting (and presumably why that date).
EDIT: `/tenfour` doesn't redirect either..?
Though, to be fair, the `IMAGES` array has everything stored under 'tenfour' directory, still, I imagine it's just a code name for the project, given the release/announce date.
Additionally, I add the month text (mmm) as well to the date, which makes it easy for me to quickly recognize the month, otherwise I mostly have to count :(
So like, 2016-09(Sep)-19
That way, the sorting still works, and I get to see 3 letter month abbreviations as well.
I have the exact opposite: if I see a date with the name of a month I mentally convert it to the month number first.
You could filter by folder and display by date, or ignore folders and filter by date. And it had an easy UI for filtering by tags (that were pulled from photo metadata, not stored in an internal database).
(I suppose I bring it up because it worked well enough to make manually fiddling with sorting photos mostly uninteresting)
I've known the month numbers since early childhood. Dates were often read as "the twentieth of the ninth, [twenty] sixteen", especially if they were being written down: 20/09/2016.
Though now I see it can't make sense if read in the American order.