Tag: android
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My Phones Beat My 12-Year-Old PC: I Still Can’t Do One Simple Thing
I have a Pixel 11 Pro and a Pixel 11. Both have more raw computing power than the 12-year-old PC sitting under my desk. That PC drives two monitors easily. Neither of my phones can. And after a week of trying every workaround I could find, I’ve learned that nobody makes the hardware or software…
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A regular person’s review of the Google Pixel 7a
I finally ditched my Pixel 3 for the shiny new Pixel 7a. The switch came at a fortuitous time because I bricked my Pixel 3 by dropping it in a stream while hiking. It’s not the only reason I made the change. It so happened I purchased the Pixel 7 the day before I went…
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Pixel 6 update: Buy my Pixel 6!
That’s right. For the low low price of whatever it auctions for on Ebay you too can have your very own Pixel 6. I’m setting the starting price at $400.00. That’s a little over half of what it cost me new. If it ends up being higher than that fantastic. If not and it only…
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Pixel 6 update: I wish I returned it in time
I’m well past the two week return period and I wish I wasn’t. The behind the screen fingerprint sensor is so bad that I disabled it and will now go security free on the lock screen. I’ve grown accustomed to using the fingerprint sensor on the back of my Pixel 3 and going back to…
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A regular person’s review of the Pixel 6
I wasn’t going to do it. But I did. I bit the bullet and purchased a Pixel 6 because the battery life on my Pixel 3 is getting to the point where I need to plug it in several times a day and the phone’s hardware feels like it’s getting long in the tooth. After…
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Google just saved me $1,100!!
How did they do that you might ask? By not having their cutting edge technology working. I’m still on a Pixel 3. I skipped the Pixel 4 and Pixel 5 because they just were not desirable phones for me. The Pixel 6 gets announced today and while the phones are too big for my taste…