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It’s not often that you get to merge personal passions into a professional life, but that’s what Kellen did when he launched Droid Life in 2009. After working years of unsatisfying jobs in the medical and property management fields, he took a risk to try and create an online community while playing with the coolest gadgets on the planet each day, a risk that has turned out to be incredibly rewarding. Outside of Droid Life, Kellen is your typical Portlander who drinks way too much good beer, complains often about the Trail Blazers, and can be found out on the streets for a run, rain or shine.

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  • whats the point in getting pixel phones anymore if we dont get the features and updates first. it all comes to $$$ half of the pixel only features dont even work. i dont want to go to an s22 but its going to much better than the pixel 6 pro even if i dont like the one ui. i just feel like pixel owners get screwed every time

    • what features didn’t it get? You talking about duo and messages? Those are apps on the play store. Looks like google just allowed samsung first crack at an update that’ll be coming to every android device soon.

  • Kind of makes me wonder why I continue buying Pixels. Samsung is getting updates faster. And now they’re getting new features first. What’s next?

    • I still really dislike the Samsung software, but you’re not wrong, seems that Google knows that Samsung is the most important part of Android, even ahead of Pixels.

      • I’m with you in not liking the software. However, My last interaction with it was the S9 and I am hearing a lot of people saying they love One UI now.

        • It’s certainly better than it has ever been, but I have been using AOSP or Google software basically since Day 1, the OG Droid ran basically bare Android, then I had the Galaxy Nexus which was bare android, then an LG G2 which I generally ran CyanogenMod on, the OnePlus one which was CyanogenMod and then Nexus 6P, Pixel 2XL, Pixel 4XL and Pixel 6 Pro, I am very used to Google’s software and love it. Also, the camera in the Pixel 6 Pro is just amazing.

    • I had this exact thought upon reading the headline. At least the Pixel is significantly cheaper, but as we see, that is for a reason.

    • Samsung doesn’t usually get updates faster. For monthly updates Google releases on the first Monday of the month. If that happens to be late (like the 7th) then current flagship Samsung phones (S21 as of right now) MIGHT get an update before the Pixels but that’s rare. After a little while Samsung moves to quarterly security updates. For lower end Samsung phones like the FE and A series phones the “monthly” security updates are very slow.

      For major OS updates it’s like 3 months for current model flagships and like 5 months for even one model year old.

      Just as an example my dad has an unlock S20 FE. It just got the December updte and still doesn’t have Android 12. My Pixel 5, also one model year old, has had Android 12 since October and just got the February update.

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