One gimmick after another: The Pixel 11 shows me Google is fighting the wrong battle

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PhoneArena
PhoneArena
Phonearena team
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• 2mo ago

The Pixel 11 range is here… and the crowd goes mild. I wasn't too excited about Google's Pixel 11 series in the months before this week's official announcement, but even I was surprised just how few upgrades we've received with the latest phones. Frankly, the potential 2 nm Tensor G6 was the only new hardware feature I secretly harbored any enthusiasm for, but it turned out that the new chip is actually once again built on a 3 nm TSMC N3P node. Moreover, leaked benchmark results suggest this...

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GoodBoy99
GoodBoy99
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• 2mo ago

Pixel will never compete with any other companies!🙄

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Bruce_Wayne
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• 2mo agoedited
↵GoodBoy99 said:

Pixel will never compete with any other companies!🙄

And yet it's at #11.

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meanestgenius
meanestgenius
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• 2mo ago
↵GoodBoy99 said:

Pixel will never compete with any other companies!🙄

Facts. Pixels just aren't up to par with other smartphones in their category.

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12sag02
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• 2mo ago
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Pixel will never compete with any other companies!🙄

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Bruce_Wayne
Bruce_Wayne
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• 2mo ago
↵Bruce_Wayne said:

And yet it's at #11.

https://share.google/npel8UvfOa57OWErI

https://share.google/vMVplT8EvFt5xL6Sb

Fallacy. 😏

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Bruce_Wayne
Bruce_Wayne
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• 2mo ago
↵Bruce_Wayne said:

And yet it's at #11.

Fallacy.

https://share.google/npel8UvfOa57OWErI

https://share.google/vMVplT8EvFt5xL6Sb

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NaySayer
NaySayer
Arena Apprentice
• 2mo ago

99% of phone users don't care about raw performance and Pixel users in particular buy these phones for the software experience. Tensor chips are mostly about accelerating AI tasks.


Anyway, if you think Google phones are underpowered, don't buy them. Nobody's holding a gun to your head.

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GoodBoy99
GoodBoy99
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• 2mo ago
↵Bruce_Wayne said:

And yet it's at #11.

Only 11! Not much to brag about

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Bruce_Wayne
Bruce_Wayne
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• 2mo ago
↵GoodBoy99 said:

Only 11! Not much to brag about

Neither are you or Samsung but who's complaining.

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