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So not only a price increase: less RAM, performance scraping backwards, crippled/lost features, a camera system that captures stuttering audio and video imperfectly often, and Pixels dropping out of AOSP.

Google Pixel has the marketshare it deserves.

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There's no phone that isn't like that this year

Fairphone gen6+ (vs gen6) got an increase in ram from 8 to 12 and from Snapdragon 7s gen3 to gen4. MSRP only went from 599 to 649.

Yet, you can pick up a Samsung S26 for 600 Euro that will absolutely demolish a Pixel 11 in practically every aspect except cameras. Years ahead in CPU/GPU performance, etc.

Yet no GrapheneOS.

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