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Pixel 3 is an expensive piece of crap. Call quality sucks, battery life is terrible. And the USB-C will for stretches fail to recognize the provided earphones as an audio device (it reports that it's charging them).

There are somehow 2 or 3 different news modes - and I cannot figure out how to get to the one I want. The Google assistant frequently enables accidentally and records me talking. The phone regularly harasses me and asks me to give reviews and answer questions for them. Many of the news suggestions it gives me are tweets and Reddit threads; I don't tweet or use Reddit. There are a bunch of apps which can't be uninstalled that I don't use or have any need for. No matter how often I turn off the wifi, it decides it wants to turn it back on.

This is probably my last Google phone. Garbage.

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I've got one and I like it very much. The camera is great and that's why I got one. I like that it's thin and narrow and fast (at least compared to my nexus 5x). The wireless charger is convenient.

I haven't experienced any of the problems that you mention (though the first thing I did was disable Google Assistant) but things I really do not like about it are: it's very slippery to the point that it would be suicidal not to use a case with it; I prefer the old UI; it's pretty heavy for the size.

You’re one of the few people I’ve ever heard praise a phone because of its thinness. How much thinner is it than your old phone? What do you do with that extra spare millimetre?

Well you're right it's actually not thinner than my previous phone, they are both the same at 7.9mm . It did "feel" thinner in that it's easier to use one handed which I guess is due to the Pixel3 being close to half a centimeter narrower and the edges being more rounded.

Somehow I perceived the narrowness as being thiness. In terms of weight though the Pixel3 is 12 grams heavier.

interesting. I have a pixel 3 and have experienced literally none of your issues and am really enjoying its lack of 3rd party software unlike my old samsung galaxy. In fact, this device has spurred me to fully embrace the google ecosystem

Ditto. I've the Pixel 3 XL, my first pixel phone and I love it. Fast, good battery, gorgeous display and monthly updates with none of the Samsung bloatware forcibly installed. I used to be an iPhone user years ago (owned 4 of them) and I'd never go back. In fact my wife has an XS and I wouldn't swap mine for hers.

And fwiw I have had quite a few Android phones; including Google's Pixel2 and G2X. So far, this one seems to be the worst.

Same here I love my pixel 3, my favorite feature is screencalling. I get a lot of telespam and it's really nice being able to screencalls before picking up my phone. I too had a samsung touchwiz phone, going pure stock android is so much nicer

Why is Twitter not a valid news source? Sometimes a Twitter thread is better than a major news site just writing a pointless article that embeds those same tweets. And I'm pretty sure you can push a button to tell it to stop showing tweets.

OP isn't saying Twitter or Reddit aren't valid news sources, just that they don't like how the Pixel 3 suggests content from them incessantly.

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