To Gaben’s credit he collects a lot less of the surplus these workers create than most other billionaires. But yes.

Stock, with Google.

Slightly smaller than a Pixel 8 Pro:

Sorry I only do light ebikes. 🙂‍↕️

If possible, you should get a doctor to treat it. Untreated it could get worse. I improved after a few months of PPIs and avoided surgery. I’d do surgery if PPIs didn’t help. Nissen fundoplication has a very high success rate and it’s durable.

It’s not too much smaller,

I don’t eat breakfast. Been doing intermittent fasting for as long as I can remember. Surviving on 2 meals a day, one at lunch and a smaller one at early dinner.

Preliminary battery life results.

Preliminary battery life results.

Preliminary battery life results. Using the stock OS. No issues with apps so far, apart from Lawnchair’s back animation being a bit more broken with some apps than on my Pixel.

Preliminary battery testing results:

During this first discharge session, I’ve installed apps, transferred data, posted all my comments here, etc. All on WiFi.

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Definitely not noticeably slow. It feels just as fast as my Pixel 8 Pro and it might even feel snappier. I’m sure that CPU-heavy tasks like image editing ops would be slower but the general performance feels great so far.

I haven’t used my phone’s USB port for anything but charging for at least over a decade so I hadn’t even checked the port speed before or after buying.

Yeah latency isn’t and likely cannot be music production grade.

Yeah I have to agree, the financial cost is tiny. The physical packaging cost is high. If you see how dense modern devices are, and how much space modern cameras take, you can see what the cost of taking the equivalent space of a 3.5mm jack is. Ingress is an additional valid engineering problem.

Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t mind devices that are a few mm thicker and therefore have less packaging constraints for jacks, bigger batteries, etc.

Just the flashlight for now.

Good question.

There was an announcement about QC extending SD 7 and 8 support for up to 8 years but they say it depends on the OEM. Maybe FP is part of that deal. Maybe not.

Now let’s look at the Pixel’s update support from another angle. The problem I see is that the hardware may not last that long in practice. Specifically due to the lack of parts or the prices for those parts. For example a replacement for my Pixel 8 Pro’s battery is currently CAD $160. That used to be $80 when I had a Pixel 5. The screen repair cost is very high. Over the year-and-a-half I’ve had it, its battery capacity has gone down to 92%. A battery I have almost never fast charged. If this degradation rate continues, it’ll need replacement by year 2-3 of the device life. That’ll be $160-200 for another 2-3 years. Then there’s the parts availability. The Pixel 6a, supported to 2027, has a fire-hazardous battery defect requiring battery replacement. Our extended family has a couple. We checked with the authorized repair shops and it turns out they no longer have those batteries. That’s 3 years into the device’s support lifespan. This means it’s quite plausibe that I won’t be able to replace my Pixel 8 Pro’s battery next year, let alone in the 6th year of its 7-year support lifespan. In other words that long of an update support is only meaningful if it’s supplanted by the necessary availability of parts, and ideally the ability to replace them without specialized tools. I’ve tried replacing a Pixel battery in the past and I broke a screen. I’m sure I can get the hang of it if I had the requisite hot plates, high end suction cups and a few spare devices to practice, but that’s not practical for most users.

Don’t do it.

Check what the parts availability is where you are. Some signs point to possible lack of/difficulty obtaining parts in Canada for example.

Got it. Yeah it makes sense for the warranty. I assumed I could get parts in Canada though. I might have jumped the gun on this one. I thought iFixit sells them and they do but I can see their site says “Not sold in Canads” for a few parts I checked just now. Hmm.

E: It seems that Clove also sells parts. I see some FP4 and 5 parts. No FP6 parts yet.