Pixel 2 - Jerry Rig Everything

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Quite surprised about this video. WAS planning to get one.

[video=youtube;BVKnt7H4zVc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVKnt7H4zVc[/video]
 
JimboBob said:
Quite surprised about this video. WAS planning to get one.

[video=youtube;BVKnt7H4zVc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVKnt7H4zVc[/video]
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I'm yet to meet ANYONE who owns a flagship phone that hasn't bought a protective cover and/or screen protector of some kind. Honestly, if your phone ever ends up looking like that, it's probably best that you steer away from the top of the range stuff and go for a 3310 instead.
 
I have a 6P with screen protector. Dropped the phone a few times and I have separation of 3 out of the 4 antenna bands. I've got no issues with this on the 6P because it's 2 years old but now the antenna is on the side of the Pixel 2 (6P is on the top/bottom) and you know this is just asking for trouble. It honestly seems like the S8/V30 easily surpass the Pixel 2 from a build point of view.
 
JimboBob said:
I have a 6P with screen protector. Dropped the phone a few times and I have separation of 3 out of the 4 antenna bands. I've got no issues with this on the 6P because it's 2 years old but now the antenna is on the side of the Pixel 2 (6P is on the top/bottom) and you know this is just asking for trouble. It honestly seems like the S8/V30 easily surpass the Pixel 2 from a build point of view.
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They do. Google are quite simply not a hardware company and it shows year after year, in every single device they make.

What Google need to do is allow whatever OEM they ask to build something for them,to better advise them on best practices and materials. Pixel 2 is poorly built and Pixel 2 XL has poor quality displays.
 
The Voice said:
I'm yet to meet ANYONE who owns a flagship phone that hasn't bought a protective cover and/or screen protector of some kind. Honestly, if your phone ever ends up looking like that, it's probably best that you steer away from the top of the range stuff and go for a 3310 instead.
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Im the opposite, most of my friends have no protection on the phones. For myself I hate having a case on a phone, makes it clunky and fat. Stopped using glass screen protectors too after 2.5D glass became the norm.

So far, never lost a phone/screen to drop damage.
 
Tsepz_011 said:
They do. Google are quite simply not a hardware company and it shows year after year, in every single device they make.

What Google need to do is allow whatever OEM they ask to build something for them,to better advise them on best practices and materials. Pixel 2 is poorly built and Pixel 2 XL has poor quality displays.
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Problem is they don't make 'em... The Pixel 2 is made by HTC and the Pixel 2 XL by LG.
 
backstreetboy said:
Problem is they don't make 'em... The Pixel 2 is made by HTC and the Pixel 2 XL by LG.
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I pretty much make it clear in the following paragraph that I know they don't actually make the phones, and that they need to allow the OEMs who make them have more say in what happens.

It's clear that Design and Materials are chosen by Google, they then get an OEM who can make it happen, and they gladly take the money and build the phones, knowing the mistakes being made.
 
Tsepz_011 said:
I pretty much make it clear in the following paragraph that I know they don't actually make the phones, and that they need to allow the OEMs who make them have more say in what happens.

It's clear that Design and Materials are chosen by Google, they then get an OEM who can make it happen, and they gladly take the money and build the phones, knowing the mistakes being made.
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No the Pixel 2 XL screen is made by LG that's why the V30 also has the same crappy screen. Blame LG et al not Google. IMO HTC should've made both phones and Google's HTC deal will make it happen next year. OP should either wait for the Pixel 3, buy and get a cover or go for last year's pixel.
 
Kind of limited for phone choice now. I see the Essential phone has a deal on at Amazon, that white version is looking sexy.
 
backstreetboy said:
No the Pixel 2 XL screen is made by LG that's why the V30 also has the same crappy screen. Blame LG et al not Google. IMO HTC should've made both phones and Google's HTC deal will make it happen next year. OP should either wait for the Pixel 3, buy and get a cover or go for last year's pixel.
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No, Huawei should have made their phones again...
 
I always cringe seeing the damage these guys do to new out of the box phones.
 
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