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As I type this opening sentence on the surprisingly-great Pixelbook Go, I’m subtly reminded of what makes a great piece of hardware. The sweet spot sits somewhere between a finely crafted physical thing that is pleasing to look at, hold or touch and the way that thing goes about getting you to the digital, software-driven things you need, use and enjoy the most. It’s why gimmicks leave us a bit hollow, spec sheets don’t always translate to experience, and why the theoretical best isn’t always the best. With the Pixel 4, I'm not yet convinced to make the leap.
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for the first year since Google started
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making pixel phones I'm not actually
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alright so let's get into this and if
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you notice here on the table there is a
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pixel for it's not the excel this is a
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smaller one with the smaller battery
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that is getting kind of knocked around
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on the internet a bit but overall I like
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the aesthetic quality here I like the
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idea of a phone made by Google one that
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has access to the latest version of
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Android all the time and is updated
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quicker than most and does a lot of
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things and it's just kind of plugged
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into all of Google services right out of
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the Barrett right under the gate I like
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all that those things are great it's why
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I've always owned a pixel phone it's why
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I've always found myself going back to
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getting a pixel phone after trying out
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other phones during the course of every
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given year now that doesn't discount the
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things I don't particularly like about
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this phone I don't like the fact that
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they didn't had a wide-angle lens I
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don't care what they think is more
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important to whatever type of
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computational photography they're doing
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wide-angle lenses are fun and they're
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very useful to catch things that you
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just can't get with software so it was
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kind of an odd choice for them to do
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that but again that's not the end of the
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world it's still got a great camera in
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it it's a pixel phone it's gonna have a
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great camera but other cameras have kind
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of caught up to them they've made no
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strides and video so we're still stuck
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with 4k 30 and honestly the dynamic
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grains when you're doing video doesn't
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look great I mean when you compare it
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with what we're seeing coming out of the
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new iPhones it honestly looks pedestrian
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so that's kind of a knock I don't like
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the big forehead up top don't really
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like the notch from the 3xl either and
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so we kind of go back to what do you do
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if you're gonna put all those sensors in
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I don't know I don't know exactly what
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the answer is there but I don't think
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having a big forehead and a small chin
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at the bottom is the way to go I think
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symmetry looks good for a reason and
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kind of wish they would have gone with
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that and maybe just
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the front facing speaker there I don't
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really know and when we're talking about
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the screen 90 Hertz is great but we're
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seeing the fact that if it's below
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seventy five percent brightness you're
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only getting 60 Hertz and you can force
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90 Hertz but if you do that you kill the
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already bad battery life and and so the
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thinks are just kind of adding up with
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this phone that made me go I I'm not
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sure if I really want it this year and
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the reason that we're even making this
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video is because again I have ordered
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the pixel phone as soon as I could and
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eagerly awaited it to show up so I could
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start using it each year that it's come
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out pixel pixel to pixel 3 and pixel 3
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axl so I've had all of them I've enjoyed
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all of them and yeah there are nitpicks
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with every phone not just pixel phones
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every phone has shortcomings and the
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four is gonna have shortcomings and
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maybe you like the gimmicky things that
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google's doing with motion sense and
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swiping around and being able to take
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pictures of stars but for me those are
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not things that I'm looking at and going
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man I cannot wait to get my hands on
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this thing and use it to do those things
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but ultimately what it ended up coming
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down to for me was this conversation I
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was actually having with Joe who's
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behind the camera right now he and I
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were sitting and talking about the pixel
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4 and whether we were gonna upgrade and
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for the first time I realized all of a
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sudden I hadn't even pre-ordered I
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hadn't gone through the process of
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making sure I was gonna get one so I was
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like well crap if I order now I'm not
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gonna be late and I'm not gonna get it
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when it releases and that didn't bother
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me either and as we talked it through it
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was odd the the mental gymnastics I was
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going through to make myself want to
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order a pixel 4 and let me take you
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through it real quick in general I
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looked at it and said well there's a
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bunch of hardware stuff I don't really
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care for about it but I've done this
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before I've gone and gotten a different
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phone and tried to make it as pixel II
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and googly as I can and not ended up
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liking it and eventually ending up with
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a pixel again so I just decided you know
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what I'm gonna stop doing that I'm just
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gonna get the pixel 4 and gonna do
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whatever it is that Google says I can do
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on my phone and I'll just live with it
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and the minute I started thinking about
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that the minute I start saying to myself
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well maybe next year they'll give us
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this or maybe next year we'll get that I
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sounded an awful lot like an iPhone you
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and I'm not here to bash iPhone users
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iPhones do a lot of things really really
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well and I appreciate a lot of what
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iPhones bring to the market and how they
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help move smartphones forward but I
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remember having a lot of friends who
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were iPhone users and each year they
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watched the keynote they'd see the new
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features and on some things I'd be like
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finally we got such-and-such and oh man
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we didn't get this thing we were hoping
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we were gonna get maybe next year
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meanwhile I was watching all that and
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going as an Android user well if this
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phone doesn't get what I want and this
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one does I'll just use this phone they
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all use Android I have a choice it's
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it's open I can I can move around I can
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I can take my cell phone usage to
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someone else and get what I'm asking for
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out of a cell phone and so when I
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thought about myself kind of taking that
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approach with the pixel just saying well
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I really don't like a lot of what
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they're doing it I don't kind of like
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the way the screen looks and it's a
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little bit dim and they're brighter
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screens out there better refresh rates
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and better looking phones and better
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camera assortments and really good
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software and companies that are making
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phones that get great update cycles and
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you know oneplus phones that get updates
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just as quick if not quicker sometimes
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in pixel phones why am i stuck having to
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accept what it is that Google is doing
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with their phone and then I thought
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about it for a second realized I I don't
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I don't have to be stuck in that I'm an
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Android user I can go and get any phone
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I want and there's something I value
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greatly about that openness I value
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open-source software I value ecosystems
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that I can move and take with me
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wherever I want to go
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sure I'm kind of locked into Google
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services I'm a Chromebook user an
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Android user I like Google services I
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like their software but you know what if
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I'm forced to I can take those services
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and put them on a Mac or I can take
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those services and put them on an iPhone
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or an iPad or a Windows machine or Linux
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I can use them anywhere I want to so I'm
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not stuck using a piece of hardware that
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I don't like just to get the services I
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need and that's the difference iPhones
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lock you into Apple's hardware and
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software together so to get the best of
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an iPhone you need to use their hardware
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and their software together so sure you
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can use Google stuff on an iPhone but
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ultimately Apple once
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use iCloud and they want you to use
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Apple's version of basically everything
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software related only with their hard
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work so you can't use their software
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anywhere else and so they kind of lock
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you into this thing where you're like
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this is the only phone I get and
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whatever they say I will like this is
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what I will like and I just push back
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against that that's just my nature I
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don't I don't like that I want to use
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hardware because I like the hardware and
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I like the way it makes me feel when I
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use it and I enjoy the entire experience
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and so because of that I'm pushing back
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a little bit against the pixel for this
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year because ultimately Google doesn't
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offer from my perspective the best
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possible hardware here do they have the
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best camera on an Android phone
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arguably yeah but they might arguably
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have the best camera on any phone but I
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feel like Apple might have come in and
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superseded them in some ways in that and
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especially with video I mean they're
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they're miles ahead so they they don't
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even have the best best camera you know
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like they did just a couple years ago
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where the pixel two and three were so
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far ahead of everybody else so now of a
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sudden what is the reason that I would
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feel tied to the pixel brand of phones
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and I honestly when I started thinking
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about it I don't I don't have a lot of
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reasons and so for that reason I chose
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to go and pick up this the oneplus 70
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because I get Android 10 I get all the
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latest updates I get a 90 Hertz refresh
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screen that gets up to a thousand it's a
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brightness it's six point I don't know
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three or four inches so that's plenty
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large there's almost no notch whatsoever
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on it I get RGB face unlock but I also
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get a fingerprint scanner because oh by
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the way the face unlock that works
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really well in the pixel 4 doesn't work
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with any apps really yet so all those
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actually use your fingerprint to unlock
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well you're back to putting in a
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password or some sort of pin or
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something like that to get into those
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now because your face unlocks not gonna
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work on that for a little while and so
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as all these things add up is all these
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differences and changes in the way that
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phones are made start piling up and I
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started thinking about it I just decided
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it was time to move on and kind of
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unshackle myself from Google's block in
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that they're kind of trying to go about
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getting with the pixel phones I don't
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know if they'll ever get it because
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ultimately androids open-source
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everybody can
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that filmmakers like oneplus can make
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great phones and great hardware and keep
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it updated if they choose to and they're
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choosing to do that and I think they're
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making better hardware it's the camera
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better no but everything else about this
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phone is and that's enough for me right
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now to walk away from the pixel line
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until something else comes out that at
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least impresses me and inspires me to
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pick it up and use it again from a
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hardware perspective well guys that's it
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