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Google Pixel 8A leak reveals seven years of security updates (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago

Can we stop using "leak" as another word for "advert"?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Without a headphone jack, not sure if I'll be staying with the Pixel series.

But the A series still has a better camera than other budget phones, right?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (4 children)

The camera should be better. But, what midrange smartphones still provide a headphone Jack? I have all but seen it disappear alongside fading sdcard support.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sony still puts them on all their phones.

Their new models are expensive but if you get the last year's or 2 years old model it's a lot cheaper. The differences between years are minimal anyway because they already put everything you could want in them. They mostly just switch to newer components.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Sony sells their smartphones in limited markets only. Mine is not one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Samsung midrangers like the A15 / M15 / A25 etc have both the jack as well as an sdcard slot. There's also the Motorola G34 and the G84. And finally, there's also a flagship - the ASUS ROG Phone 8 Pro. And a whole bunch of Chinese phones which I won't bother mentioning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

By midrange I meant Something more like A35/A55/M55, etc. So upper midrange hardware. Moto doesn't include a jack or even expandable storage on edge 40 Neo, edge 40, edge 50 pro.

As for Chinese phones the most prominent even Xiaomi has stopped including them in some of their phones. Not that I want to buy them. My software experience has not been great with Chinese OEMs.

So, if I want good software(Oneui, NothingOS, Moto HelloUI, etc) support and quality my choices are slim to zero.

I have made my peace with wireless unfortunately I don't want to do the same with micro sdcard. But, even that's fading in so many phones...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I feel you, I've been looking for something to replace my s10+. I want wireless charging, headphone jack, sd card.its really hard to find all 3 in a récent phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're right, I haven't looked at mid prices phones in a bit. They used to have headphone jacks when the flagships didn't. But that could have changed since the Pixel 3A days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Pixel 3a was so long ago. That was one of the last pixels to include it. They removed the 3.5mm jack after 4a series.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Pixel 5A was the last. Pixel 6A doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't define the A series as "budget", but yes - the cameras are very good for the price. I briefly used a 7a last year and the only other phone I've seen that was comparable in that price range was the A54.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Oh, you're right, it's more of a mid price phone. The budget phones market has continued to expand. But the budget ones are definitely slower than the A series.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

The chip is the obvious problem here. Samsung's manufacturing is thermally inferior to something like snapdragon. Let's see what 2025 pixel can do after switching to tsmc.