I might’ve found my next phone y’all.
The Second Coming of St. Blackberry?
They already released this a little while back.
https://www.unihertz.com/titan.html
And the reviews I read of it were pretty positive, especially about its keyboard, so I’m definitely backing the upcoming Kickstarter.
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Looks pretty cool. I could see myself getting one just to be different. I just got a Pixel 4a 6 months ago so I’m good for now.
Well, I shouldn’t have jinxed myself like this. A couple weeks after the above post my Essential start acting a little dodgy, freezing briefly and having unexplained battery drain. Woot had a deal on the One Plus 8 for $410 so I decided to hop on that.
The 8 seems pretty nice so far. I’m still adjusting to the size. Phones have just gotten bigger in general even since the Essential PH-1 was new. The in screen fingerprint reader is fancy, but I still accidentally try and unlock the phone by sticking my finger over one of the camera lenses occasionally.
I’m happy to be back on an OLED screen. I think they definitely look better than even a good IPS. I was also surprised the difference in feel the 90hz screen makes. It definitely feels nicer to scroll stuff.
Wait did the Pixel 5a release and no one here talked about it?
https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/google-pixel-5
Ignore me, its been a 15 hour long workday. The Pixel 5a isn’t out yet.
The Home/Away routines that should be a great smart home feature are the biggest shitshow imaginable on Android. I thought it might’ve been my old phone but no, even on a Galaxy S21 and with full location permissions it inexplicably decides I’m not home if I haven’t touched the phone in a while. Which in my case means turning all the lights off and dropping the thermostat temps.
Have you tried Tasker? It will be more fiddly to set up, I imagine, but it worked pretty well when I used it before. That said, whatever is causing your issues with the routines may cause the same issues with Tasker if it’s not an Assistant problem.
Mine does the opposite. No matter where I am (and with location allowed) it always wants to give me driections from home.
I’ve been eyeing the Pixel 4a. I’ve got a 3a XL that’s going to be 2 years old in the summer but the storage limitations are beginning to chafe. Did you get the regular or the 5G version? I’m tempted to get the latter more for the larger battery than for the 5G capability (if I’m remembering right).
(old man alert)
That’s why I don’t cotton to all them new-fangled Smart Home shenanigans.
There is a major form factor difference between the 4a and 4a 5G. Going from my 3a XL and trying the 4a made me feel like I’d grabbed a baby phone. Even the 4a 5G is a little smaller in your hand, but the bezels are smaller so the screen is pretty close. Unfortunately with either of them you end up with rounded corners and a selfie camera dot in the top left annoyingly removing a part of the screen. In the end I appreciated the slightly smaller body of the 4a 5G, it’s easier to reach stuff like the fingerprint reader. When I pick up my old 3a XL now (my wife has it) it feels super chunky.
Thanks for the reply.
Did you get a good deal on that 4a 5G BTW?
I did the 2-yr monthly charge thingy that Google was offering.
This one: Google Pixel 4a Subscription Program - Google Fi
Edit: I’m not sure now that I’m looking at things if I have the same deal as that subscription or if I just signed up for 2 years of monthly payments when I switched from the 4a to the 4a 5G.
Edit 2: I’m paying $14.54 a month over 2 years for it. Was a Thanksgiving-time deal.
I am really trying to hold out for the presumed Google-silicon-driven Pixel 6 likely to hit this fall, or if that sucks the likely-at-that-point discounted 5 or 5a. But chonkasaurus over here is starting to get scratches on the screen and it’s so chonky and slowwwwwwwwwwww.
Knock on wood, but my Pixel 3 still feels brand new, but I know when things change, they do it fast. It’s definitely the only smartphone I’ve ever had that’s at the 2.5 year mark. None of the others I’ve had ever lasted past the 2 year mark.
I loved the shit out of my Pixel 3 until I dropped it in the shit.
Welp the Titan Pocket Kickstarter has launched:
Not great specs, but all I do on my phone is check Discord, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook and Gmail primarily, so it should be fine for that.
I like the new look.
They had a whole bunch of other announcements too, all relatively interesting.
