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  • I was curious, almost excited about the blue one. Then they decided to put that hideous white front on it, making it look like a toy car. The blue should be more metallic/darker, plus a black front which should go without saying. Letdown.

  • Ugh, why is the front white? That makes this immediately less-appealing than if the front was black…

  • That giant, empty, bottom bezel…good thing they went with on-screen buttons, can’t have buttons taking up valuable bezel space! You could write your shopping list on that thing.

  • Such a strange decision by Apple to move that home button to the back of the phone….oh wait, it’s the Pixel.

  • I felt intense regret for buying my new Moto Z Play two days ago after seeing these prices… until I saw that these are subsidized contract prices. I know it’s been said many many times already, but these prices are way too high. Along with no SD slot or water resistance of any kind, it’s a deal breaker.

  • Boy, is it ugly. And, no capacitive buttons means that valuable screen real estate is used up by buttons. Plus, these on screen buttons are annoying-they show up when not needed.. I’m guessing that Google still doesn’t believe in SDcards? Samsung learnt their lesson real quick-an S7 it is..

      • Ooh Pie controls looks good-I’ll check it out-thanks. I still want a hardware back button so I can quickly exit an app without launching a software like pie.. Same with a hardware home button. Especially, when the software is hanging and a hardware button would still work 🙂

  • I’ll probably get the silver but I’ll be pissed if they release a red one after I buy it though.

  • I want this phone, I don’t want to pay that full amount but I’ll be damned if I don’t get this on my wife’s subsidized upgrade in couple months. Good thing I have time to see reviews before hand to see how it pans out, if not I’m good with my 6P.

  • Conspiracy Theory #4.5.3
    Seems like all the Pixel phones “leaks” are designed to keep everyone focused on the phones while Google prepares to blow our minds with some other announcement because it seems everyone is really saying the same thing over and over about these phones; renders, specs, colors, and likely a higher price.

  • I’m dying for the next “Nexus” style phone. I have the Moto 6 and could not wait for this one to come out. With everything I’ve seen in the confirmed and some of the stuff in the rumors, this phone is garbage and I will not be getting it. No SD, no wireless charging (not confirmed I believe), not waterproof, made by HTC (huge ugly chin), 128GB pushing upwards of $800 in the XL? You know this sh**s bad when I’m considering going back to Samsung. So disappointed.

    • I find myself lacking any respect for people who bring up the “no MicroSD” argument. It’s been at least 5 years since Google included a MicroSD slot on their devices. Hardware nav buttons for that matter as well. You’d think people would just understand by now that neither are coming back. But no. Instead, every year we get a handful of you whining about something that was never in the cards to begin with.

        • For some of us, like me, 128gb isn’t enough. I carry all of my media, ALL of it, on my phone and I despise cloud storage. Storage needs to be 256gb before I’ll consider a phone without expandable memory.

      • Maybe it’s not so much the lack of SD card as it is sh***y options for storage size. Offer me a 64GB option. 32Gb or 128GB? A phone that is useless or phone that has it’s price jacked up. In a year I’ll be able to buy SD cards for pennies on the dollar for existing ones, yet I won’t be able to upgrade my phone without replacing the entire thing.

        Also, it’s not just one thing. It’s all the bad things that are coming together here. I could get over buying the 128GB option if the phone was “magic” with all it’s other features.

      • Hey, the more we whine, the more we might get noticed, eh? Omitting expandable storage is stupid in this day and age, especially since the only 2016 phone that I know of that also omits it is the OP3. It’s a deal breaker for those of us who like to carry all their media with them on their phones, refuse to pay extra for storage, and who refuse to use cloud storage.

      • yeah and its a MISTAKE…i have a 32gig phone and i dont have really any games installed or taht many apps…but i cache my music so i can listen on the subway…ate up ALL my memory to the point i cant update apps…what time do these companies think we live in that everyone wants to cloud storage everything? thank god i have a turbo 2 and i was able to cache on my sd card so i can actually use my phone now….google needs to get with the times

      • Yeah, I thank the Nexus 4, 5 and 6 for getting me completely and totally addicted to wireless charging, and now it has to be the primary feature offered by any phone I’m interested in. Grrrr. Thanks for nothing, Google.

        Currently rockin’ my LG G4 with add-on Qi sticker.

  • So a big phone with >32gb storage is going to cost, what, $800+? Ouch. They’re not even gone (for a couple of hours) and I already miss the days when Nexus phones were high value, not top of the line. I’ll be sticking with my $250 N5x while I save my pennies….

  • I hate to make up wild speculation, buttttttt…I find it very interesting after the Hauwei/Google news broke, Google has produced a phone strikingly similar to the Honor 8. If you take away the two tone back, its essentially the same plate. Wondering if the Honor 8 had the potential to be the pixel phone all along before the dealing fell through. Perhaps Google got a look at some renders during a communication phase. Again, this is for sport, but I don’t think there is any denying some design language was copied from someone.

  • WTF is Google Magic Software??? I hope they don’t mean the damn Google Folder that comes on every android phone… Let’s please not start being silly…Google…. Anyway..

  • If you are going to go with capacitive buttons only, why is that chin so damn big? This phone could have been an inch shorter and look a TON better, IMO.

    • If you’ve looked at any HTC phone teardown video, you can see that they suck at packaging the internals of a phone efficiently. They probably needed that extra real estate to fit everything inside. Shameful.

          • Break: I dropped my Noe 4 down a FLIGHT OF STAIRS. Nada. I dropped it in the toilet: NOTHING. As yet it hasn’t blown up Related: 35 known instances of fires in Note 7= Bad, Over 200,000 preordered phones = .0175 PER CENT of phones with fire. Bad but not (quite) the media hype people are making it out to be. GPS, I MIGHT give you. Often my N4 will think it’s somewhere else nearby. But my friend’s Nex 6 of that generation does the same thing. But HTC has better hardware. Sure. Now stop trolling, please?

          • Oh, I say one negative comment about your beloved Samsung and I’m the troll? How original!

          • That’s a fair point. I did the same thing to you that I was berating you for in your previous post #irony #hippocritical So my apologies, sir. I shall rescind my prior statement and edit out the snark. But my other observations still stand.

          • It’s all good man. Sometimes we let our emotions dictate our comments instead of trying to think logically. I’m sure I’ll get called out again 😉 I’m good at looking at things differently. Haha

  • I just do not like anything about the Pixel. I was really hoping with the change in branding, and potential increase in price, that we might see a “Not-Nexus” with an SD slot, but, nope. Honestly, this phone is ugly as sin, to boot. Copying Apple much?

  • So glad I picked up a 6P two weeks ago. Meh to the Pixel phones. Rather see an updated 7 inch tablet

    • Overpriced, gimped storage yet again (they really should be 64/128GB storage tiers at these prices), still no wireless charging, still no microSD slot, ugly as sin, Google is in bed with the carriers yet again, another year of shrinking screen sizes, huge bezels/chin. And still no new tablets. Only things to get excited about are the SD 821 and, potentially, the battery life on the XL version. What a terrible year for Android 2016 has been.

  • Is it just me, or is that volume rocker a little too small? I feel like it should be like 30-50% longer.

  • Wish it was all blue like the 8x…Im not a white front fan… But from these leaks both white front phones look better than the black….. But Kellen and Tim will have hands on SOON ENOUGH! WOO! #PixelSeasonApproaching!

  • By now people came around the 6P with its press renders. Sorry, these phones are ugly. If anything, the blue version needed a black front.

      • Conversation at HTC headquarters: “Bill what the hell are we going to do with all these leftover A9 phones? I dunno, John. How many did we make? 300K. How may did we sell? 250. K? No, 250. So what do we do with them Bill? I dunno- maybe Google is buying? HAHAHA, John, no WAY would Google be that dumb!…

    • That’s like, just your opinion, man.

      I think they’re nice looking, especially since it’ll be in a case anyway. The chin is the same size as the one on my 6P, so I don’t mind that. Looking forward to this phone.

  • I was so jazzed up for the Pixel phones but it will be hard to pay that much unless Google has some surprise up it’s sleeve. To compete with the iPhone they better promise 4-5 years of OS updates.
    I was still holding out hope that the rumored prices were incorrect but alas that was not the case.

    • The long OS updates would not shock me at all… I bet that is what they are doing… The whole move to Pixel is for them to take complete control of the Android software and hardware.

  • Loving it. Will be buying the black version today…looking forward to the software demos Google has in-store!

  • Google magic Will launch later this year,
    I’ve already heard rumors that Google will be launching a similar product called Google Wizardry, Google magic will then be renamed to Google Incantations, it’s still the same program you love but it will be target business customers.

    • It will be sold via Google store as well and can be used on all carriers. It is either a verizon exclusive for a time period or just for this year.

    • Where’s that “No!” gif from The Office when you need it?

      Verizon exclusive…

      I am so close to just being done with Google entirely – really wishing we had more options than just Android/iOS. /smh

      • Whats the big deal? buying via the Google Store is the way to go anyways.. plus it will work on all carriers

        • There are still a whole mess of folks who only buy from Carriers, esp. in the US. If Google really wants to make a dent in sales, they need to acknowledge this. Adding options (carrier availability) doesn’t hurt you or anyone else and makes it easier for more people to get their hands on the device.

          That, and it’s always nice to be able to actually use-one in-store prior to deciding to drop $600+ on a handheld device.

          • You could still go to a Verizon store to use one before buying online. That’s what I did in a Sprint store before I bought my Nexus 6 from Motorola.

          • While that is indeed an option, it still misses the larger point. More than a few US Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T users won’t even know this phone exists if it isn’t sold by their carrier.

            Doesn’t hurt you or me specifically, but just stomps all over any chance of these making a noticeable dent in sales for any other OEM.

          • I don’t disagree, but I also see it this way – Verizon probably paid a lot to get it exclusively, thus, reps will hopefully push the device heavily in their stores. Not as much availability, but at least it will have some backing versus just being another non Apple/Samsung phone on the shelf.

          • Nothing in this world will stop VZW store staff from pushing iPhones and Droids. Those are essentially the only devices that even exist for them.

          • Yea I was just addressing that one little piece of your comment. I totally get it. Hopefully the exclusivity is a very short-term thing. It’s also entirely possible the other carriers didn’t even want it.

        • There’s also people who get their phones through work. So free Note 7 or pay for a Pixel…

      • That just means Verizon will be the only carrier to sell it in their stores. You can still get one from Google and activate it on any carrier.

      • Is windows phone still a thing? No seriously, I haven’t looked to see if it still exists in like 12 months. I just saw that blackberry officially hung up their hat.

        • Not really. In typical Microsoft fashion, just when it may have been an option for a larger subset of users, they stopped making any devices available through carriers.

          It’s pretty much an iOS/Android world now. I’ve been an Android fan for ages, but the last year or two has really been a letdown and I really don’t like iOS (personal preference thing).

          At this point, I’m starting to just not give a crap anymore, which really sucks because Google events used to be fun and exciting for me. I miss that…

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