Hopefully the switch to TSMC will work out well for the Pixel 8 series. 🫰
The pixel 8 still uses Samsung fab. The pixel 10 will be on tsmc.
I guess I’ll be holding on to my P4XL for a couple more years then. Hopefully they’ll take another run at face unlock in the P10.
Have they confirmed that? Since Tensor has a lot of Exynos parts, I don’t know if Samsung is open to have TSMC manufacturing them.
My understanding is Google in the next few years will make everything in house by the time they go to tsmc.
The best phone is the one you can get right now. Waiting for a phone that might come out in 2 years is… impractical 😅
I was planning on getting the Pixel 8 but will hold out for a while. Would love to hold my Pixel 5 for a couple more years but security updates will stop end of this year so we’ll see then.
You can still install LineageOS and probably get even more standby battery life (because I bet their build is more clean than Google’s. Google and Pixel launcher together are taking 7% of my battery life with more than a day of background usage).
However the issue for me is that I like to keep the bootloader closed in case my phone is stolen. And I think with LineageOS they don’t recommend doing that. So this is one of the reasons I never tried to install it in my wife’s pixel 4.
The other reason is the time to restore all the apps, backup, check if the esim is still there and not deleted (it’s a pita to get a new esim with my carrier) and all that kind of stuff.
I don’t know if this is true for Qualcomm Pixels but on Tensor one esims are kept even when factory resetting/flashing a different OS.
Maybe it’s the same case. But my carrier is so medieval that charges me 15€ everytime I need to print a new QR code to pair my esim with a device and they only issue this in a physical form. So this is why I would not give it a shot haha.
You can use GrapheneOS which allows you to lock the bootloader
