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Google says bumpy Pixel 8 screens are nothing to worry about

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Nothing to enjoy either. I have a pixel for graphene, but can't do another pixel after this one. Presumably graphene have a backup plan for if (when) google drop the phone - I wish they'd execute that backup plan before we hit that bump.

Fairphone?

That's just a way too bulky phone to be practical for most people. Wish they made a "normal" sized one.

Just look how massive the Fairphone[1] is by comparison to the Pixel 8, which is by no means a petite phone. I have no jeans with pockets to support such a chonker.

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/size-compare-3d.php3?idPhone1=12540...

I definitely have one on my screen, but I really have to look for it. Doesn't really bother me much.

Still, pointy internal components pushing on the display is a major design-manufacturing oversight that's absent from their more experienced competitors in the industry, Samsung and Apple. It's something that if you don't catch in the CAD-prototyping phase, you should catch in the early industrialization ramp-up phase as you do quality control of early devices comming off the assembly lines. You do quality control, right? Right?

Let's face it, Google just sucks at making quality hardware in general, they just don't care as much about all the nitty gritty details and challenges that product industrialization throws at you, and just seem to just "wing it" on the HW side, with every latest pixel model suffering from various issues all the time.

I miss the days when Google would let proper manufacturing partners like HTC or LG focus on the hardware so they could focus on the software. Anyone remember the budget friendly Nexus 5 and what a good phone that was?

Now when Pixel has flagship prices to match their competitors, such mistakes are less excusable. If you jump in the ring with Ali, you'd better be able to box.

> I miss the days when Google would let proper manufacturing partners like HTC or LG

The Pixel team is largely comprised of ex-HTC employees that came over when HTC ragequit the mobile phone business. They started out leading the 3a/4a, but after the Pixel 4, they got put in charge of all of the phones.

But then why do latest Pixel phones suck so much when HTC made some of the best Androids out there?

typical google mismanagement

I'm not going to say that this isn't disappointing or isn't a real problem, but to say Google sucks at making hardware is a bit unfair, as every device has design issues.

If this is the major hardware issue this generation, then they're getting _much_ better. I've suffered tons of hardware issues over the years with mobile devices (the worst probably being the iPhone 7 with failing batteries and broken radios) and reliability on my Pixel phones has been pretty darn good over the years. I started with the Pixel 5, then the Pixel 6, now the 8 Pro.

Saying anything else would make the liable and could mean they would have to replace them, so for sure they would claim it's not affecting longevity?

That shouldn't be an acceptable excuse.

"Nothing to worry about" sounds like a tone deaf response at best.

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