cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18709244
Google offers 128GB of storage for the Pixel 9 Pro and XL, but that’s nowhere near enough for a flagship built to last seven years.
Better cameras equal higher photo size equals same storage. <- googles brain.
Better cameras equal higher photo size equals same storage
Leads to more Google One subscription - FTFY
And then there’s me. I don’t even know how much space my phone has, probably around 128gb but 16 or 32 is all I need tbh. Haven’t used my camera for about 5 years. Don’t even know if it works. Also: probably wouldn’t buy a pixel phone.
I, for one, am outraged that cheaper options are available for people who don’t use very much storage.
Aren’t people mad because the prices are disconnected from reality? It looks like an extra $100 to jump 128 to 256? Meanwhile we can all see retail prices for 128 G microSD cards.
Apple does this bullshit with their soldered RAM and everyone is rightfully enraged by that also.
That’s plenty for me, but I’m probably far from a typical user of these things.
I barely store anything besides apps on my phone. Photos get automatically synced to my nextcloud, and after I sort them I just delete them from my phone. I also self-host all of my music, and just stream from that using Navidrome. Has worked pretty well for me so far.
Actually I think that’s pretty much all I do with my phone lol, maybe I should look for a cheaper one next time as I don’t really need a flagship or anything.
Agreed. I desperately wanted a Pixel phone with 1TB, when I saw that not only is the Pro available in a normal size model this year, BUT with a 1TB option I got excited…until I saw that it adds $500 to the base price of the phone, bringing it to a whopping $1499.
I’m gonna wait and see what the pricing looks like on Black Friday. I was originally wanting to keep my Pixel 8 until support ran out, but I’m already over half full on my 256gb, and my screen is having the green screen issues. I know I can get it warrantied, but the 1tb normal sized Pro is just a tempting option.
Wow that pricing is rough. They usually knock $200 off the price of pixels pretty quickly, and not just on Black Friday. They also f around with the trade in pricing which I think is a bad look, especially for their own products.
Yeah it’s absolutely awful. I haven’t checked out the trade-in pricing. I haven’t ever tried that before, I was considering trading in my pixel 8, but I like having a spare in case something happens to my main phone and it needs to be repaired.
But yes, I agree it is a bad look.
My spare is still my 3XL. It would be rough. You could always pick up an a series if you need a phone quickly
