Personally I have the 8 Pro and I’m constantly impressed with how good the battery life is. I can go two days without a charge, something that my older pixels would fail at. It’s also held up much better – im assuming due to the charging changes they’ve implemented in recent versions of Android

That’s great. When working out the design without the tips wasn’t staying in well for me.

Hmm? This has been working for me the past week. I downloaded some pkpasses since my flight only offered the “Apple” download, and it imported and was usable on Android.

Have seen them in all of my regional banks in my area.

Totally with you here and ready to die on this hill. I dread the day my Chromecast Ultra croaks.

Pretty sure they can’t bundle it. AFAIK the libraries required for it ship with Chrome / Android and it’s not an open standard. The hacky weird workarounds are people brute forcing it.

Wow. That battery looks truly terrible.

Also a surface go 2 (and previously 1) owner and love it. Form factor is just right. If there are recommendations for other things of the same build quality but faster with better battery life I’m all ears. Don’t want to be gimped by an iOS tablet. Never had a problem with the hardware.

Chart is a little misleading starting at 7% instead of zero, but still a nice surge nevertheless.

Years ago that may have been true, but Messages combined with RCS support (and other carriers with their own apps supporting that should you not buy a Pixel) has been pretty uniform. If Apple would get on board then it would be a non issue by now.

I’m getting the 8 Pro, but think this artificial limitation of features is such bullshit. Really wish Google were better than this at this point in time. Those with the 6 & 7 pro could really use the manual selection. My SO has issues all the time with the 4x optical camera not automatically switching fast enough on the 6 Pro.

That doesn’t look like a graphing calculator? For what it’s worth, I haven’t needed one in years but I used an emulator for one of the popular ones when I was in school. Still ran as an app and you just grabbed the ROM for it, but was far better than the competition.

Nova being bought out by a third party ad company made that a no go for me nowadays :(

Okay, so at no extra cost to me I get a $700 phone (by your standards) and a $350 watch, both of which I use basically all day every day for any number of reasons that will last me 3 years like my current one. Sounds good to me.

I grabbed a Pro for myself, a worthy upgrade from the 5, and getting a free Watch 2 with it is great. I love my OG pixel watch so that with better battery life is all I ask for.

I use iTunes on the desktop, but I’ve only ever had it happen when I’ve been listening to music on my phone a minute or two prior. I’ve never logged out on either and if it was outside the few-minute window I was never prompted with that popup. Sorry it didn’t work for you, and that would probably be a dealbreaker for me, but fortunately that’s not something I run into.

On a single account, no. You cannot listen from multiple devices at the same time. You can have multiple logged in, but only one can be actively playing a time. I’ve swapped between my phone and my desktop – and occasionally you’ll get a popup that “only one device can be listening at a time” but it usually just takes dismissing & clicking play again to get it to refresh. I think if you have a family plan the limit is 6 devices or something, but don’t take just my word for it.

Google Play Music.

Personally, I listen to most of my music by Album, then by all albums of an artist only in my library, and finally by playlist. YouTube Music made the default organization (atleast when I tried it) by viewing the entire artist, and viewing individual albums was multiple layers deep. I also kept running into music on there having their licenses renewed (I think?) and they would be disappear from my library. I’d have to go back and re-add the albums. I just became frustrated enough I had to search for something else. I just really like the layout of My Library -> Artist (play or shuffle all) -> Albums (play or shuffle all).

I do find it amusing that GPM closing down made Apple Music the best music experience on Android. For how I browse and listen to media it’s far better than YouTube Music was for me - not to mention it actually looks really good.