I've got the new Pixel arriving today, they're trumpeting how AI is all over it so either it'll take lovely photos or conspire with the fridge to kill my family, could go either way.
I've got the new Pixel arriving today, they're trumpeting how AI is all over it so either it'll take lovely photos or conspire with the fridge to kill my family, could go either way.
I've got a Pixel 8 and it's brilliant. Fast, long battery, good camera. Does everything I need and the contract is fairly cheap, about £32/mo for unlimited data.
You can get a similar deal for the Pixel 9.
Any particular model?Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry
Rugged armour is my current.
I like the heavy duty ones because if you drop your phone it just lols it off.
Going to go for the Pixel 9 myself. Google doing trade ins now and they're estimating my S23 Ultra at €366 off the price of the new one. Doing free double storage at launch too.
Same. Randomly came across them on Amazon in 21 and have used them since.
@Manc, I use the armor case
I've just seen that I can get an upgrade too as my contract ends next month.
Pixel 9 Pro XL is tempting.
That's what swayed me, I've got the 6 which is still running an absolute treat but double storage and getting £250 back means it works out about £20 a month all in
8 Pro user here and it really is great. I had the 7 Pro before this and you can really see them getting into their stride with it now. On the last two launches they had a Pixel Watch if you ordered the Pro in the first two weeks and the Buds if you ordered the standard 8 in the first two weeks. Seems they're not doing that this year.
The photo editing software even for an editing dummy like me is outstanding.
They have also finally upped that fingerprint sensor to pretty much instant this year. I also this the camera 'shelf' on the back this year looks top notch.
Cheers gents. I've gone for the Tough Armour case, which has a novelty kickstand.
Right my phone contract is up soon and I need a new phone. I have two phones one for work and one for home so my current phone will become my work phone.
I’m thinking about moving from Apple to a Pixel 9. But, my biggest concern is moving from the Apple ecosystem that my life has been in since I had a Galaxy S6 anyone made that change recently.
Just remember to get a decent screen protector cos mine was in a tough case
Do you have the accompanying watch, pods etc? If not it's an easy choice imo. The hardware between it and the upcoming Apple device will be very similar in terms of quality. They will not be similar in terms of price.
Did you toss your phone into the Grand Canyon?Just remember to get a decent screen protector cos mine was in a tough case
If you're using an iPhone you probably were, or should have been, using Google services for most things anyway instead of that iCloud mess. So it's very straightforward. It's still a fairly half baked OS compared to iOS though and I guarantee you'll be sorry.
That said, if you're going Android then Pixel is the way to go.
Dropped it on a stony path at the beach like a giant toddler.
I've ordered my Pixel 9 Pro XL.
I had one of those with my Galaxy S20.
Barely used the kickstand and it snapped off after a while.
Enjoy.
I've been having a bit of a a nightmare updating my number on Whatsapp, well, I think I have, it's hard to tell. I've been using my old number profile on my new phone number for a while as I was afraid of losing all the old conversations - this had happened to my wife. Decided I'd give it a go after about a year as it's causing some confusion when people try to use the profile number to contact me outside of whatsapp. Made the mistake of not selecting notify all contacts, so that seemed like it had fucked things up for individual conversations. Groups seemed to be able to cope somehow. Anyway, I decided, with some reddit advice to go back to the old number and then switch back again but this time with the notify contacts thing selected. Interestingly when I then went back to my old number/phone it fucked all the conversations so all old message were gone /o\, but then, after switching back again they are back \o/. Thing I'm trying to work out is how the notify contacts thing works. Does it amend you profile in their phone? The only people I've been able to contact so far have had both my old and new number so I can't work out if someone who doesn't have the new number will see it as part of my profile [ie their contacts will have been silently updated] or not.
Bet that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. :/
Best value sites to buy phones through these days? Saw some Pixel 8 deals for under £25 p/m no upfront fee but want to shop around.
Money saving expert's phone finder tool thing will compare most of them for you.
That's handy thanks, still weighing up whether to just claim on insurance for my smashed 23 Ultra or pick up a really cheap 'old' phone now and write it off. Interestingly Pixel 8 Pro reviewed as an equal to S23 Ultra on release but one is now half the monthly price of the other.
This Flip 3 I'm using might have carried me to May 25 but I cant face it all the way to May 26, the battery is terrible. I went to Leeds at the weekend for the ale fest, purposefully used my phone as little as possible just listening to music on the train and the odd message/uber, looked at it come 10pm and I had 2% battery - not ideal when you're 8 pints deep away from home.
Damn that thing is good.
Mine and the Mrs deals are offset by a year and she's never too arsed with the brand new phone so usually takes mine and I get an upgrade each year. Most of the big name airtime providers now seem to be pushing you towards a 3 year contract as standard, so these sites are big money savers. I've used affordablemobiles the past two times, but they've recently been bought out. Their prices are still decent compared to the others but not a patch on going through that link.
For example the Pixel 9 Pro on there is £39/m with unlimited everything. You're looking at £48/m for the same on affordablemobiles. Only thing is I've never used ID Mobile. It does state it piggybacks Three though so I'll ask around here to see how signal is.
I'm about to enter my final month and so am looking at my options. I don't like how bloaty the Samsungs feel, so I'll likely skip them unless they're due a new phone reveal soon. That just leaves the Pixel and the iPhone.
I currently pay around £45/m for 100gb data with Vodafone, so anything around the same or less is fine. Unless through that site they can find the new iPhone cheaper than what I pay now(it's available tomorrow), it'll likely be a Pixel.
You can get the standard Pixel 9 for £30 a month on there, which seems like a very good deal. Just a case of whether those extra features are worth the near £10 a month extra on the Pro.
I'm on ID Mobile and it's fine for me - no better or worse than any other network.
The three year contract thing is an absolute racket. My wife likes the new phones so she saved up enough to buy a new iPhone outright a few years ago and switched to SIM-only. Now she's in that cycle she is "saving" loads.
Obviously I can't comment from a personal point of view because I'm like Lewis when it comes to this bollocks.
I went on one of of them the other day and it was a 4 year contract as the default setting. Scandalous.
As for signal here, I've used a few networks now, with Three being the one I have not and they're all fine except for O2 which has actual dead zones.
How many phones even last three years in terms of battery life? Fucking iPhones definitely don't.
My last one (Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite) lasted me four and a half years. It was relatively cheap on contract (about £28 a month) I think for two years and then I switched to SIM only and was paying about £8 a month for another two and a half years.
Got the Nothing Phone 2a the other week (£19 a month, £39 upfront, 300GB Vodafone) and I'm hoping it lasts a similar amount of time. Specifically bought it for it's supposedly good battery life.
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My last SIM only deal was with Talk mobile who piggyback on Vodafone. The signal for it was okay but not great. The signal for Vodafone now seems to be much better. Could just be the phone itself but I was wondering do networks limit virtual operator traffic to boost their own speeds?
Doubt it. I'm with Lebara (also Vodafone) and had absolutely no signal issues on an archaic phone.
I was going to extol the virtues of having an old iPhone 5 but the 3G signal just got yanked in my area and it's now completely useless.
You must have had it constantly connected to a power bank.
Nope. Rock solid battery life. I maybe charge it once a week.
Well, it's done for. No signal and every 2FA is hooked into the iPhone 5's number. The 6s I have has never been able to make calls or texts (it would get on the network fine but currently can't even find it) so ... I think I'm switching networks.
Last edited by Shindig; 13-09-2024 at 08:00 AM.
Landscape has settled somewhat since the iPhone 16 came out. I'm due my upgrade in the next month. Currently pay £45/m so that rules out the Pro and up models on the Apple side. Just under £40/m for the standard, just over for the 16 Plus.
Whereas you can get the Pixel 9, Pro and Pro XL for all under £40/m right now. The latter two are a negligible difference in price around £37-39 a month, with you being able to get the standard 9 for £30.
I'm not opposed to going Apple again, but being able to get the top non-foldy option from Google for the same price is surely the better play. I'd opt for the standard 9 to save some money but I reckon there'd be a niggle in my brain about doing it.
Well, I did switch network. 3's service didn't appear to come back up. Luckily my brother-in-law threw me one of his old phones (a Galaxy A71) so I could get a sim only deal with Vodafone. Not my first choice of network but they were local to me and sorting something out online typically requires a number for two-factor stuff. Quit 3 relatively painlessly and took the old number. I don't think I'll ever go back to them.
Fuck knows what I'll do with 150GBs of data.
Went for the 9 Pro XL in the end. This phone is the answer to what would happen if Android got iPhone build quality. 500gb with data rollover basically gives me unlimited data. £39 a month so I can't grumble.
Just now stuck in that period of waiting for my number to switch over.
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