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Google's Tensor inside of Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro

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20 pointsMikusR8 comments

I have had the Pixel 6 Pro one day. So far, I think my Pixel 2 was better. I don't like having to use gestures that only sometimes work instead of the back and home buttons. The fingerprint deal only works sometimes.

My old Pixel 2 still worked very well, the only reason I upgraded was I use my phone for business and the lack of security upgrades on the old phone forced me to get the new one.

You can enable the old navigation model in accessibility settings.

On GrapheneOS.org, you can be web installed and choosing between three styles of navigation in minutes! Whatever works best!

Is there a reason these gestures don't work? Like you have not gotten use to properly performing them?

I moved from a Pixel 2 to a Pixel 5 when I shattered my Pixel 2's screen and I am not a fan of gestures. It was damn right awkward and clunky at first but they work once you figure it out.

You can get the buttons back if you want, at the cost of some screen real estate.

& agreed, the UI distinction between swiping up & swiping up from the bottom edge is both a pain to distinguish physically & I can never remember which is which. Swiping in from the right for back also makes tapping things on the right edge a bit of a lottery: will the UI decide I was in fact swiping in as a back gesture this time? Who knows...

Gestures are a nice idea in principle, but in practice I'm not sure that they're an improvement on actual buttons you know that you're pressing.

So finally Google had to make their own AV1 hardware decoding IP, I am wondering if they will license it out for free as well.

Really shows you what an excellent job the Apple Silicon team have been doing. Latest A series SoCs are ahead of the Android competition by miles in most metrics. I was hoping custom Google Silicon might get closer to competing, but maybe I had my expectations set far too high.

I think you have to take into consideration that Apple has been providing their offerings for over a decade now (starting with A4 in 2010) and have their own special license to design their own chips that use ARM instructions, while this is I believe Google's first offering and it is done through Samsung and is sort of like an exynos+ rather than a completely new design.

Maybe after a few more iterations it will be more competitive, maybe they actually get to design their own architecture or they could do the Google thing and just give up a few years from now and sunset tensor.

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