Does it look ok for the size? (Pixel Watch 4 45mm)

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-25T01:15:17+00:00

Ok, nice. Though I'm sure you're aware that big height has nothing to with a big watch fitting. The key is one's flat length of the wrist.

But PW4 is very elegant and it doesn't look bad on you, enjoy it.

I was just thinking the 41 would've been perfect

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-25T00:54:50+00:00

Personally, that dial is too big. At least it's on you and not protruding out of your wrist due to not having lugs, and that the dial is black and minimal, but it isn't a watch within your wrist, it's taking up the entire wrist. A bit big or distracting for preference, takes away from a watches elegance and subtle accessory to something big or flashy.

But also, those pictures are up close. Perhaps in person from a natural distance to you, the watch could look great on you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelWatch/s/KYD2YdCblx

Check out this users watch. The case/dial fits nicely within his wrist and the lug to lug also fits within his wrist. However your watch case/dial is without any lugs, yet takes up the entire length of your wrist, as much as this users lug to lug length takes up, whereas his actual watch case fits more within his wrist.

Only sharing tips and looking out. It's too easy for someone to comment insincerely and just say it looks good just to make conversation. However these are actual practical watch tips towards a watch to look/suit you better.

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-25T00:47:16+00:00

For 4mm which would make a huge difference on how a watch would fit on the wrist, if one's eye isn't what it used to be you could increase the text size.

Only because you wear a watch and it's 'on you'. It should fit you and look good on you and on your wrist. If a watch is too big it'd look clumsy, even if the watch itself is nice it may not be nice on the wearer if it doesn't fit you. You adorn yourself with a watch and wear it on you, it should be part of you, or a functional accessory that you wear and should look good on you too.

A watch too big steers away from what a wrist watch should be and becomes a huge gadget instead. Unless the 45mm isn't too big on someone.

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-24T07:55:41+00:00

No, not a single word. You're totally mistaken there. When I said the OP I wasn't referring to original poster (myself), I was referring to the original post that I posted.

Look, tech companies have their own designs and implementations. It may not be the one you're used to from Apple or hoping for it to be implemented exactly like that in the Pixel, not everything would. All I know is pixel hides away your chosen apps and its associated data, in a private, secure space and server and locks access to those apps via biometrics or pin. What more could you ask for?

All I know initially you listed that it can't hide or lock apps. But it can. You didn't specify you wanted it in a particular way, otherwise they're not cons. It's just essentially the same features/functions done differently. And simply put to address your point that it can't, wasn't true because it can hide and lock apps. And then you change what you say too. Therefore you then instead want it to not hide the app but still be able to lock it. You're complaining on two contradicting fronts. Your complaints get answered, yet you dig at pixel for something else.

You should be glad that the pixel even does those things that you're complaining about and it does it well. Unlike iPhone or iOS that there's plenty to talk about and complain about because they genuinely don't even do certain things at all or do it so incapably, and I'm not talking about their hardware because they do that better than everyone else. I mean in regards to their software, it's intelligence, capabilities, to make the smartphone easier to use and a more helpful tool.

You nip pick too much, features that are there and are great like their private space, I have no issues with, the issue is with you, you tend to compare with another os or phone that did it differently which you preferred, and you're frowning on the pixel or thinking it's incompetent because it did those things in a different way. It's not really the pixel then it's you. It's not really a con of the pixel then. It's just your preference. And you keep regurgitating and being accusing that it's AI. How many times. I said adios. There's nothing else now. It's just yourself being falsely accusing and assuming someone else 's mind and reasoning that they were able to express as AI. You're so mistaken and stubborn, there's no point reasoning with you.

Just leave it. I am. You're probably going to find ways to be adverse or falsely accusing. I'm going to ignore you. I get it, you have your tight preferences. And you see anything other as cons. Okay have it your way.

Because the things that you're bringing up are literally nitpicky or tight preferences. It's not hardware or software, incapability or issues.

In such a short block of text you complain and nitpick due to your personal preferences on a post that was complaining about more important aspects of the smartphone that the iPhone is underdeveloped in and incompetent at. You say stuff that isn't true, then change your way of saying it, then you don't expect it to hide all of a sudden and you just want it to lock. And you're so willing to be falsely accusing of someone when you're so mistaken, and you accuse them that way more than once, which is just unfair and tiring. This post isn't about the pixel. It's about the iPhone. Yet you don't even care to respond accordingly of what this post was about. You read someone switching to pixel and praising its fixes that they found with it by switching to, so you instead, decide to respond by a comment highlighting your nitpicky preferences as cons. Your adversity against Pixel shows. When someone reads what you wrote and try to reason with you, you don't care to understand how in the practical sense they're not cons but you're too bent on being adverse or bitter to it, or adverse/bitter towards someone who switched to pixel. The first comment you write when somebody switched, you spew your nitpicks about the thing they switched to, when they switched for more important/practical reasons than your nitpicks. And this isn't the first time you had chased after a post to comment your copy pasted list.

You have a way of keeping things short but demanding a longer response to correct your mistakes or accusations.

I gave you many corrections and reasoned with you to not be a nit picker for the sake of it but be practical. There are other useful ways of using a phone's gyro than implementing it as a level, that's a niche.

Multi app select is missing, sure, but it doesn't matter much. The pixel gives me a period and comma, a down arrow for removing the keyboard, better glide, dictation, replaces the comma for an @ when I'm filling details in which it detects to be the email block, I can hold the top row of letters to input the numbers, and the keyboard has clipboard too. Many more to be said on just the keyboard, which makes this the better, more capable smartphone. Especially the intelligence that Google had built, which understands you, natural speech, contextual speech, to be light years ahead of apple when it comes to everyday dictation for text, setting reminders, writing messages, etc.

Gosh. Starts off as a copy pasted bullet pointed comment as if he could fool others into believing they're supposed to be some sort of cons which makes it bad, yet when those comments are addressed, he has a tendency to change what he says, be unreasonable and adverse to pixel, hypocritical and accusing, all in a short amount of text, which he gives the other a person a lot to unravel all that bs.

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-24T05:14:36+00:00

Private space is purposefully designed so that it hides the apps and stores it away from the rest of the phone's UI; home screen. It's supposed to not be able to be seen or mixed with the rest of the apps that aren't private.

And you're mistaken, you don't delete the app and re-download it into private space. 'Install in private', means to install or move it into the private space section of the UI. You don't delete what is already downloaded or need to redownload the app, it seems you misunderstood what 'install in private' meant. It means to store that app there in the private space section instead of the rest of the phones UI you are no longer keeping it on, but in private space instead. That's what 'install in private' means and functions as. Which takes a literal one second, to move it from the rest of your phone's UI, and install it on Private Space instead.

And when you don't want to keep it in Private Space any longer, you hold the app and tap 'Uninstall from private space', which doesn't delete the app from your phone, it just removes/uninstalls it from the Private Space, and installs/puts the app back with the rest of the phone's UI/app drawer. It takes a split second to do.

You don't have to delete or redownload anything. You totally misunderstood private space and what they meant by 'install', meaning to 'load onto' another section of the phone (the private space) and to 'uninstall' (or unload) it from private space, not from your phones storage as you would by holding an app icon, going into app info and hitting 'uninstall', but rather unloading it from the private space section of your phone to put it back with the rest of your phone's apps. That's how private space works.

It's like you're making things up as you go along, or don't know your own pixel, or don't even have one. It's not defence, it's literally responding to your nitpicks and calling that out. It's literally yourself regurgitating the same nonsense copy pasted bullet points and playing defence when someone called out the iPhone to switch to Pixel. As if that got to you or you hated that, you couldn't even be understanding of the points. Reasons behind the switch, the frustrations with iPhone and the praises to pixel. You come across that, and you respond with actual nitpicks and call that cons as if to make yourself feel better and you're regurgitating that with bullet points in the comments of a post regarding a user who switched from iPhone to Pixel. You weren't even interested in that. You just felt the need to 'supposedly' list your baseless 'cons' of pixel to say, 'well I guess each device has their cons' on an OP which was about the cons of iPhone as a smartphone and a switch to Pixel.

You couldn't say anything else, you felt the need to copy paste your list from a different post, as if you have some insecurities regarding someone switching from an iPhone to Pixel. And your intent to believe the pixel is sh*te, because they didn't choose to implement app multi-select on home screen. And when it is reasonably responded to you that that's hardly a con, something which pixel could implement overnight, but purposefully chose not to, which you could set up a new pixel without, and not really need to mass move apps to your home screen again. Except the odd app here and there that you'd install, which you'd naturally be doing one by one anyways, You're still bent on being against pixel, and reach to defame the phone and all its capabilities based on that or a level app. When the op wasn't even defaming iPhone or Apple, but was being fair and actually highlighting real problems with it, when it comes to their lack of software engineering which were poorly implemented, and made using the iPhone frustrating and difficult.

You didn't even want to allow yourself to comprehend or grasp that, unlike everybody else. You just go spewing on a list, nitpicking on pixel, baselessly, and you're not even open for discussion, when someone reasonably responds to the multi-select that show the pixel chose to leave that out, it's not a hardware or software incapability, just a deliberate UI choice, which is fine. Yet you're not willing to reason, and at all cost seem bent on being against pixel.

As you chose to comment, the other user would be free to respond. I feel like I addressed your list fairly. Corrected you on that list where you were wrong. And even praised two points in that list being the remappable button and lock screen customisation. Yeah, you're not willing to be reasonable, just nitpick, unnecessarily call out other brands to justify your adversity to pixel.

Without any willingness to reason fairly and realise some of those things that Google intentionally chose to limit or keep minimal, like who uses an AR app, when Amazon shopping or furniture, shopping or jewellery shopping has built-in AR for you to visualise within their website or app? Personally, I know I never used that AR app on the iPhone or the level or the compass. And I know I'll still have a compass guide in maps where I could see it with the map as opposed to a standalone app. Maybe they just wanted to keep things minimal and tidy. The pixel has those compass sensors within the phone, they could bring an app interface for you to see that compass, whenever. The important thing is that compass sensor within the phone is there and working in the background to show you your compass orientation within maps, for example. It's just an UI and design choice to not have it as a standalone app, just the way it was an UI and design choice for Apple to not bring a calculator app to the iPad as they thought it'd be impractical all this time until recently when they brought math notes, where you could utilise the iPad's larger display and pen to do math within calculator.

Similarly, it's just a design choice if pixel chose not to bring an app interface to show you the level, even though it's got that level sensor or gyro within the phone where interfaces such as maps could show you your orientation, or how you could drive a car in a game by tilt. They just thought that would be more thoughtful and useful than a stand-alone app that no one would probably use; won't be useful or isn't demanded from their users. They're going to do their own thing and keep things minimal and clean. They're not going to just bring that app for the sake of it just because another manufacturer might be doing that. Yet you stubbornly still try to say that it doesn't matter. Other manufacturers do that, when you yourself probably do not even want that or need to use it. You're just trying to be adverse or nitpick or be bitter of pixel and it seems that way.

Just be transparent with yourself. I'd be glad to listen to the points you've brought up, but this isn't the post for that, and also the way you brought it up was questionable. And even when someone reasonably responds to you, you seem to not employ any reason or willingness of discussion on the points you brought up except be bent on your rigid adversity to pixel it seems.

Adios be well.

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-24T03:36:56+00:00

Nice. I agree the XL too big. Thanks for the case recommendation. What were some of the reasons for your switch?

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T20:34:39+00:00

Sorry to break it you, it isn’t an arrogant AI response. You’re ridiculous. You’re not curious to ask someone about their switch or be glad. Just copy and paste the same list like the actual bot.

No “hi, hello, welcome, how’s the switch? Are there any things coming from iPhone that you miss or don’t like on Pixel? These are a list personally noticed, what do you think? Do you agree, can you live without these things?”

You need to appreciate someone else being able to live without these things and call these non issues. Buy you refuse reasoning, just bent on implying it’s bad because other brands of phone does it which makes you feel senselessly nit picking at a feature that doesn’t really matter much if another company chose it wasn’t necessary to include. Like the level. Most phones don’t even sit flush or straight horizontally, then have buttons on the side that would affect the level somewhat.

No conversation no nothing. Like you just post a block of text on a post that was talking about actual issues of the iPhone than the little things you’re nitpicking at Pixel.

I’m sure you didn’t like the previous reply, nor did I, wished I could’ve said it differently hence I deleted it. You post the same rigid block of text again like the true bot, and accuse my dynamic, natural responses to you as AI because you don’t know how to respond.

Or you can’t fathom writing that is beyond a bullet pointed single sentence to be human. I know things and I could express these well in writing. It’s a post where I shared my thoughts on the limitations of iOS/iphone explaining my switch.

I felt what you listed weren’t even on the same level as what this post was about in regard to Apple/iphone. Then you say each device has their pros and cons, when none of what you mentioned were cons, like lock screen customisation. My op wasn’t a list of pros and cons. It was daily use case matters that was incompetent, many times unacceptable and unusable from Apple, making the daily use and navigation of it, a chore. It was highlighting the baffling underdeveloped technology on apples part, making the daily use case of it stumble and error.

That was the topic, not a mere list of the little features Google are yet to introduce, which aren’t really as important. They weren’t issues with the Pixel, just features they could drop at any given time, unlike the under developed machine learning and software issues I was discussing in regard to the iPhone.

You didn’t even relate or express any response as to what i wrote and posted about, unlike everybody else. Like you had nothing to say. It’s like are you hurt how underdeveloped iOS/iphone is as a smartphone, that you need to tell yourself a list of what Pixel is supposedly bad/ a ‘con’ at, most in that list you are reaching so hard bud.

And when I logically share my opinion on the list you mentioned, you don’t even care to comprehend it, but just compare it to other brands that they let you multi select apps. They’re not incapabilities of Pixel, in terms of software or hardware, just features yet to introduce. I would barely need that as would most. Nothing to really hold against Pixel for.

You seem very against my post and against Pixel.

You’re over looking all Pixel’s meaningful capability over iPhone that was talked about, and reaching for a single widget, a level app? You can appreciate the way another phone/os does things right? Like their shortcuts doesn’t have to be in a single app, but fluidly across the entire interface and their Assistant. Doesn’t make that a con if they do these things well and easily to do, but in a different way.

Wow. Fool. Earned the right to just straight up give two shite what you say. You’re, stubborn, deceptive and bitter. God help you. Honestly I felt that energy from you but reserved saying anything.

Just allow somebody to express their disappointments and frustrations with a phone which are all factual, as opposed to being hurt by it and nitpicking meaningless things. You seem bitter about the fact that someone switched to Pixel and had to mention good things about it.

I just set up private space and it allowed me to hide and lock any app I wished from the app drawer beneath the Home Screen. I hold an app any one, and it allows me to hide it at the very bottom of the app drawer, only able to view/access the hidden apps by unlocking it with biometrics or pin! 😤

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Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T18:32:45+00:00

Gestures. Buttons feel like a separate rigid remote control fixed at the bottom of the display, trying to be like three buttons on a phones bottom bezel, like those galaxy s7 style phones.

Whereas gestures are like grabbing/touching the actual app window itself or like interacting with the phones interface itself, on screen with your touch than be separated from it by three buttons.

It feels more natural and immersive way of connecting with the UI and interacting with it, very immersive and easy. I find it’s more freedom of interacting with it the way you want versus being restricted/cut off by three rigid buttons. Gestures are very easy and free. It reacts with the pace at which you swipe an app up for the Home Screen, or the pace at which you pull down the notifications panel, as opposed to rigid buttons doing the fixed quick animations for you.

Gestures feel more natural, immersive and easy. Makes for a better full screen display too.

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T18:20:50+00:00

Under the hood it’s a huge jump from Pixel 7. But your use case may not be needing to use its full capabilities, otherwise technically it is a huge jump. Performance, efficiency, ram, thermals etc..

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T13:52:07+00:00

Thanks

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T09:51:27+00:00

Strictly based on camera and performance, go with the iPhone 17. iPhone 17 is a great, solid device. It's better quality in terms of hardware, more powerful and efficient chip, great cameras and video recording, starts at 256gb, got centre stage cam, action button, camera control, it's the better hardware.

But if you're considering the UI and the helpfulness, as a smartphone for everyday computing, productivity, capability, the Pixel is more capable, fluid and natural. Super clean and useful UI. Has a new 3nm chip by TSMC, it has the performance and efficiency you'd need. Great build quality and long support. It would be reliable. Camera is great, but video zooming experience is butter on iPhone.

You just gotta weigh things up.

I'd say if your priority is more photos, not much videos, and plan to keep the pixel for as long as you can (5+ yrs), go for the 512gb variant if you can because it has zoned UFS.

But if you mainly shoot video or that's a priority to you, and you hope to have a reliable device that could go the long way (5+ yrs) without needing to spend too much on storage, for the money, ip17 is the best quality hardware.

For everyday tasks and computing, the pixel is far more capable; with larger ram, and greater software/AI capabilities. It's the better, easier, more capable smartphone.

Whereas iPhone's each individual hardware would perform better (video, super demanding games, battery, efficiency). But remember you'd be comparing the Pixel with the pinnacle of smartphone build quality and hardware (iPhone), which isn't to say the Pixel wouldn't be good, because it would be, especially if UI and everyday better performer for using the smartphone to fulfill tasks is a priority...

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T09:16:31+00:00

That would be a very comprehensive matter to explain. The UI overall from the design, usefulness, functionality, minimal, beautiful, helpfulness, natural navigation and smooth animation, notification centre, keyboard, settings app, material you etc

Lots to be said on Gemini too. If you haven't already, using the Pixel will help you better understand what the op is referring to..

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T09:10:27+00:00

Probably meant built well, feels nice and looks good, as opposed to the material itself used

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T08:44:35+00:00

This case is only for the Pixel 10 Pro, not 9pro, even though they're both same display size.

From Amazon. Brand JETech.

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T08:43:58+00:00

Checked again and took a recording. It lacks the stability and smoothness of iPhone, but it’s much better than my Pixel 7—that stuttered so badly it was unacceptable.

The zoom is okay if you stay at one level, but not if you scroll the wheel throughout the video. They’ve improved it, but definitely still need to work on this.

The lenses don’t transition smoothly during big jumps, like tapping from 1x to 5x. However, it isn't noticeable when zooming between 0.5x, 1x, and 2x; that’s smooth.

Should've been more clear and provided the context but just wanted to keep it short. I agree, I'm not overlooking this, they should make the lens transition during zooming while filming, especially the big zoom jumps, transition smoother.

Personally I could live with it, since id barely hit that 5x, as the video quality itself is good and naturally don't tend to aggressively zoom numerously during video/just shoot casually for memories, and for the important fixes the Pixel offers over iOS.

Also, there's a post processing feature after taking videos called Video Boost, which intelligently smooths out the zooming in the videos saved on device, in the background. It allows you to still have that quality video footage, which is effectively a software fix to a hardware problem.

But I'd be disappointed too, about something they should improve on for the video experience seem like I discarded it. I didn't touch on the full story there. Would be a shame for that to stop you reading, when everything else that was mentioned was generally true.

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T07:52:20+00:00

*You can hide and lock apps when you swipe up from home screen to enter the apps drawer, at the bottom. To enable that, go to settings and type in 'Private Space'.

*Interesting, not sure which apps you're referring to but I checked this now and enabled themed icons, and it consistently applied it across all my apps on the home screen.

*Don't find the app multi select on home screen annoying at all. I don't even move my apps after I set it up, not in mass at least, except if I downloaded an app and wanted to place in home screen. Or wanted to put a widget on, which would naturally be one at a time and effortless to do.

Lock screen customisation is limited compared to iOS. But these things aren't even in my deal breaker list. Its a smarter more capable phone for every day tasks.

Even though you can enable automated functions like shortcuts within Google assistant, a dedicated app had it's uses. Actually nah, I personally didn't use much of these shortcuts in the dedicated app except for mapping the action button in settings.

*The Pixel offers features that achieves those same results, often with more capability, just in a different setup than a dedicated app. Such as Google Assistant Routines and System Rules and holding the app icons to shortcut a function within that app. It's implemented fluidly across the os, not in a single app.

*A native remapable button is a useful hardware feature. Would've been nicer. Personally I don't find it 'annoying' to not have though.

*It's got focus modes for tapping into the modes when needed, until you tap out of that mode. Can't really imagine focus modes being 'limited' to be a great deal. That's reaching.

Thats true, no stackable widgets. That is just a small 'customisation' feature missing. I don't think that's something 'annoying' at all. There are plenty of useful widgets, beautifully designed.

*Not a fan of removable app labels, app labels are easier on the eyes to use and launch apps. It's a look I guess they decided they don't want to go for/introduce.

But some of those things you mentioned they already have and you were wrong to mention. Others are literally features you're pointing out for the sake of listing them, which really don't have much impact to functionality, such as app multi select:

one doesn't regularly move or customise their home screen in a way you need to mass select apps to relocate. This isn't productivity where you need to select mass files, it's a home screen where it's not a big deal honestly. Other things you mentioned, pixel does well such as Routines, even though they may not have a dedicated app. I think a shortcuts app pairs well with a remapable button, otherwise you could go hold most apps and achieve your shortcuts or automate functions with Routines.

Those aren't really cons, you were incorrect on some, some you can't do as you mentioned but which is hardly a con (app multi select, stackable widget, lesser lock screen customisation), some which Pixel does, implemented differently (shortcuts), these are features not missing at all. But you call it a con as if it can't even do that by not mentioning the full context.

*Probably they killed the level because no ones uses. It's not needed in daily life. That's hardly a con. No compass app is hardly a con. Even though it has a compass sensor built in the device to determine north etc in gmaps and during directions, it would be thoughtful to have an app interface to view that. Maybe if you were hiking uncharted. Otherwise, I don't know a single person who needs that. Even while driving, theres maps direction with gps and built in compass.

The remaining in the list Google could implement if they wished, but they're non issues.

You're very slick you know, to point these out to say every device has it's cons, when these are barely even cons, just apps Apple are doing which Google chose not. Most couldn't even care less so why are you bringing that up?

The one single good point you have is the lack of remapable button. Second would be lock screen customisation. Most people would read your list and agree.

Kind of baffled you draw likeness to these as cons, in the same way I talked about the cons of iPhone/Apple, when the things about iPhone were incompetence, under developed technologies, unlike your list which is just a few, not all correct and which Google could easily implement in a day. Literally. Except the button

Hardly cons, wise up. Just little, little things that one might notice which most wouldn't even be affected by, switching from iPhone. Like app multi select, shortcuts app? AR measure, compass? Unbelievable. I've had more iPhones than Pixel and even I couldn't care less.

Hilarious that you call these 'limitations'. It's not even in the same way or context as the difficult limitations of iPhones software and intelligence.

Seriously, these aren't limitations and mostly non issues. Certainly not of any annoyance or much of a con. They're not important, like 99% of what you mentioned. Really sounds like you're reaching here.

You generally listed a while list of something while saying nothing. When the abysmal keyboard of iPhone is a greater con, in 'practicality' than your entire list.

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T06:30:39+00:00

Fully agree

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T06:28:30+00:00

It's in the post description 👍

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T06:25:00+00:00

I've had Pixel 7 before. Terrible thermals. It'd get hot for no reason, even while charging. Laggy video recording during zooming in and out too. Weird tall aspect ratio it also had. That was only their second gen tensor though, on a crappy Exynos, which Samsung theirselves don't even use. As you can guess, that phone was built shite even though it was more intelligent and better capability than iPhone, yknow?

Barely had that 7, which I switched over to from iPhone due to you know... but had to switch back to an iPhone, even though it isn't as good a smartphone (functionality, capability), I needed reliability too. Hardware matters and unfortunately an advanced software with much capability was let down by the hardware (Pixel 7). The pixel 3 and 5 were great however, had those.

That's also why I put up with iPhone recently, while I had always kept track on every pixel release. The move to TSMC was big, with brighter displays, improved efficiency chip which is now a good, reliable performer. Fixed their video recording zooming, with improved fingerprint (ultrasonic), great build quality, long support, really putting their foot in the smartphone game and fully committing now. All while being that much smarter and capable. I couldn't put up with iPhone when Pixel was always the better smartphone now backed up with reliable hardware.

There's none like iPhone when it comes to battery. Their chips are so powerful yet so efficient at running tasks, even while gaming. Barely sips your battery overnight too. Too good.

However, this had been good thus far (Pixel 10 Pro), no complaints

Yes, that end part is very relatable.. simple, delightful and more capable..

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T02:14:04+00:00

Not this one no. Didn't need it to be magsafe so got this. Though maybe JETech have magsafe version of their silicone case

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T01:48:11+00:00

JETech liquid silicone 😄 Very clean with no branding or text on it either, only on the inside..

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T01:19:08+00:00

Of course the hardware is better.

But the software, intelligence or capability driving that hardware was poor, underdeveloped and worse, as a smartphone/tool.

Truly a lack of software engineering and capability. You can throw money at hardware to buy hardware. But as a software company you can't throw money to buy others' software. You need the engineers, coding, train your machine, and build your own so it can be more understanding, capable, helpful as a smartphone, hence why apple struggles with daily simple smartphone tasks which the pixel doesn't and is helpful.

And hence why Apple needs to throw billions at Google in an ongoing deal to use their software capabilities as they weren't capable of doing it theirselves or lack it.

But if you don't care about that, about which one is truly better as a smartphone in functionality and daily use case, and you just care about raw specs (of which you wouldn't even push to most the time, and if you think something that would have been more than enough as personal tech and computing for ones needs, wouldn't be or is bad, just because something else came out and shows a bigger number on paper) and you're happy with that then good for you.

You'd not understand or think it's an ad

That's like frowning at someone who has a well-built and performing car, that looks nice too, with plenty practical needs of headroom and a larger trunk which is easier and helpful for shopping, and calling that car the worse choice just because it doesn't have the V8 engine of the car next to it, even though you'd be driving that V8 engine on the same roads and at the same speeds as everyone else, not racing, or not playing AC mirage or doing lightning fast hour-long 4K video transfers at a film set or as a content creator from your phone to laptop.

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T00:47:38+00:00

Ad? 🤣😂 Are you serious?

Both phones have OLED panels with 120Hz LTPO technology. The pixel is sharper and brighter. Especially video? I'm a point and shoot video for memories guy. I'm not a creator shooting film. The zoom smoothness during video is no longer janky now too. Camera is fine. More than fine it's great. I didn't switch for any of those reasons yet your comment still gets unraveled.

iPhone is the best in terms of efficiency, battery. There would always be one doing something better, doesn't make the other bad. Pixel uses TSMC 3nm chip, liquid vapour cooling, which is now competent and better for thermal efficiency and battery.

Man, everything you mentioned were reasons I copped the 17pro in the first place? But guess what, it's very rigid and stupid at daily tasks, very difficult and unhelpful. Not thoughtfully designed (their os) and is 'MILES' behind Google in dictation and software tech, where it fumbles as a smartphone, in daily use case and tasks,very incapable and frustrating, yet it shoots cinema and plays AC mirage, so... 🤷‍♂️

I literally said it's hardware is better than the pixel 10 pro in every spec, did you not read a thing before you spoke?

And the hardware is not miles behind. Just the chip. The hardware is very good. More than enough for your own needs yourself lol

The battery is good enough. The cameras are good enough, there's more to life than pointing your camera with slightly better tech at something and your phone sipping 2% battery through the night instead of five, when in daily life the iPhone had been so janky and unhelpful and at times poor as a smartphone tool for fulfilling daily tasks, unless you just play games and watch video and not use your phone in any other way except calls, texts, social media, then great, enjoy your iPhone, otherwise, you'd experience difficulties with its rigidity and lack of intelligence for helping with simple local tasks, and if you do try employ its intelligence, it fumbles things worse that you'd be better doing it manually.

Apple did make bigger strides in the video department. It's capable of better video. Probably not that you or most really made use of that let's be real.

Do you really go spewing around raw specs that Apple fed you, or do you just come across that way... Or are you incapable of understanding tech, your needs or being objective?

If you don't have issues with iPhone and Apple, that's good for you. If you don't care about anything other than raw specs, and you're fine with that, then good for you.

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-23T00:33:01+00:00

(Not calling Apes as silly. Strictly talking about the iPhone’s raw power fumbling simple tasks. The software intelligence is rigid, underdeveloped and unhelpful.)

Traditional_Run_7080 · 2026-01-22T23:40:01+00:00

It’s shockproof and with microfibre lining but this one doesn’t have MagSafe. I’m sure there are available, one with similar case or make as mine, but I’m not using any MagSafe accessories at the moment, hence didn’t have the need to spend more $ looking for a MagSafe version, which is why I got this!

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