Sooo... don't buy a Pixel 8 because of a design flaw is what I'm hearing? Thanks for responding, Google.
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Don't worry about those bumps in your hood. It's just engine parts pushing into the sheet metal.
But I want a perfect hood
WE SAID DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT
Ford Prefect
Let's just have a pint and wait for Pixel 9.
Bumps the size of those shown are pretty obviously a defect, because it distorts the image in a way that can not be reasonably expected for such a product, even if it's only visible for a very keen eye, it can be returned by the customer under warranty.
If Google should try to refute that, they will almost for sure lose any claims decision under EU or comparable law.
I had a comment massively downvoted in an earlier post about this.
One user claimed I was responsible for destroying the environment, because I said I wouldn't tolerate the bumps much like I don't tolerate dead pixels when manufacturers say "It's within spec!".
The second user claimed to own the device, and that I was dumb because the bumps "are not noticeable at all"
Congrats Lemmy on slowly turning into Reddit.
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I saw those same comments and believe it's either paid disinformation or complete morons operating off some paid disinformation they read somewhere else. This is inexcusable from a company as large as google plain and simple.
One user claimed I was responsible for destroying the environment, because I said I wouldn’t tolerate the bumps
That's Blaming the victim. The ones destroying the environment are the ones making faulty products by design, and those that make products designed to fail. So in this scenario, the guilty party is clearly Google.
I was dumb because the bumps “are not noticeable at all”
Probably projection because he is not so smart himself.
Congrats Lemmy on slowly turning into Reddit.
I agree It happens more frequently now than ½ a year ago. But I don't think we are quite there yet. Maybe it's unavoidable on an open social media platform. It's beginning to look that way IMO.
Maybe we need a platform with steeper difficulty to entry? When reddit was new it was very good, I think it was in part because the design was pretty boring. That may have kept the people with the shortest attention span away.
Maybe if Lemmy removed the thumbnail pictures for posts, I suspect that could help a lot.
I don't want to shock you, but most Lemmy users were/are redditors. Just a weird coincidence.
Corporate bootlickers and astroturfers were amongst the first to migrate here, and unfortunately are quite abundant.
Spit on em haha
Pay no attention to our bad engineering.
"no functional impact"? We clearly have very different ideas about the function of a display.
It's always something with Google, isn't it?
Pixel 8, now with permanent braille
The "puncture marks" shown in the article are caused by some sort of grounding connectors/lever thingies, most likely for the capacitive touchscreen. So they aren't some random "components" poking through.
“Nooo, it will never break on the pressure points. It won’t wear-out faster. We promise.”
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Phones are such a shitshow today. I feel like they are dreaming up gimmicks just to sell something new, when all along the conventional design was just fine.
And stop anti-innovating. Give us back our SD slot and headphone jacks!
My first communicator had an SD slot and a miniSD slot. This made copying photos from SD to SD harder than necessary, so I hoped it'd get better with time.
Now, because of sPaCe CoNcErNs I don't even get to have any card slot in my 14" laptop (only in my 10"one) a headphones jack in my 8" phone (only in my 3.5" one).
they are WHAT? lol Thankfully none on mine.
For now
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Time honored tradition. Wheel doesn't fit in your lowered car? Add a bump like the Daytona. Turbo doesn't fit in your hood? Add a bump like the eclipse.
Ez
Helmet doesn't fit in the driver seat add a bump like the GT40.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It looks like components inside the phone are pressing up against the back of the OLED display, resulting in visible bumps under the right lighting conditions.
When the screen is turned off, not in use and in specific lighting conditions, some users may see impressions from components in the device that look like small bumps.
The pictures and videos out there all involve people shining flashlights into a turned-off display, so it's not the end of the world.
It wasn't noted in the video, but freeze-frame it and you'll see some pretty alarming indents in the copper sheet on the back of the display that you can try to match up to the other half of the phone.
It's also strange that this happens only on some Pixel 8s, indicating it's a QC issue and not some purposeful decision in the never-ending quest for device thinness.
The tell-tale sign of this being an actual problem will be an OLED display that's internally broken but doesn't have a shattered glass cover.
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I post again but both my 2 pixel 7 pro units had exactly the same. It not visible at all when the screen is on but still quite disappointing..
I'm tired of all these flat phones anyway.