Its sheer flexibility and public domain license are definitely big factors

Apparently it’s a reference to a poll they did on their website where people actually guessed, but yeah it’s ridiculous out of context

It’s the technically one of the rules of this community so I avoid doing that as much as possible 😶‍🌫️

That saiiiiiiid, I also prefer to avoid editorialising if the article is actually original investigative content, let the news websites have some clicks for doing actual work because others will steal it anyway. Okay well in this case it’s pretty basic (they have an insider source) but yeah I normally don’t won’t do it

I have the same problem with Nova. That said, have you tried updating to the latest version?

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/362911257/google-pixel-update-august-2025?hl=en

Fix for issues with 3-button navigation and gesture navigation in certain conditions*[1]

*[1] Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel Fold, Pixel Tablet, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Pixel 9a

Didn’t Snapchat have this for ages? I don’t get what’s so surprising

Looks minor tbh

Lol what

I don’t think this means what you think it means; music players have album art anyway but this is for now playing which is basically Shazam built into Pixel phone lock screen

Not going to happen, quite a few phones have 65W+ chargers nowadays which wireless can’t replicate

Have the primary contributers moved to CoMaps as well?

Comaps is a fork I think. Organic maps will live on

Good god about time

Tbh out of the big corpos MS has been one of the least anti-competitive in the past 10-15 years. They like to push their own services with ads within their own services yes but that’s not really anti competitive in the truest sense, every company on earth does that.

The biggest one I can think of recently is them having lower rates for Windows Server on Azure vs other clouds. Compare that with companies like Apple, Google who actively attempt to put down other services.

IMO Nadella has been pretty decent in handling that part of MS. Though I don’t really have an answer to your Defender question lol.

Phones have been pre encrypted for years now

You’re just limiting yourself for no reason. Don’t forget that devices tend to get slower the more full they are and not to mention your phone is using up cycles to aggressively manage internal cache. Also, the more things you have cached on your phone again is better because it doesn’t have to use resources to do work again and again.

I just checked my phone and 14 gb is used by “Temporary System Files”, whatever the hell that is but it sounds like cache is the primary use. That is not even counting the 10 GB used by Android. So it sounds like Android wants to cache as much stuff as possible.

Unfortunately not possible (Pixel). If I did had one I’d probably be happy with 128 GB (I have a few games as well on my phone), but I’ve heard a lot of people online get burned by failing SD cards so you never know.

But the point is that even if I did put in an SD card is it really different than just buying a phone with higher storage? Also the built in UFS devices are much faster than SDs

I take photos/videos and keep a huge amount of music offline. Even 128 GB isn’t enough for me.

Right but 32 gb isn’t 32 gb out of the box, it’s probably around 29 gb and nowadays android takes 10 gb itself so you’re only left with around 20 usable which is nothing.

No u

You say “marketing person” or “marketing quote” as if that means nothing - reporting factual information from them is standard practice in all news. Maybe there should be literally nothing posted by any news website in the world then?

In fact, why even post reviews? Obviously nobody wants marketing fluff like “phone has 12GB RAM”, those damn capitalist corporations are faking that too, there’s only one person in this world who’s woke enough to understand that. These idiots should realise that [phone 2025] is obviously going to be better than [phone 2024]. Maybe those scrubs should realise that before writing a sham of an article.