Saying No to Pixel (Premium)
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For the first time in over five years, I won’t be purchasing one of Google’s fall handset releases. And no, it’s not because it’s not a real flagship: I really appreciate Pixel’s new direction to the mid-market, and I would be happy to use such a device if it met my needs otherwise. But the Pixels that Google will announce next week—the Pixel 4a 5G and the Pixel 5—most definitely do not meet my needs.
This is a weird era of personal tech uncertainty for me. In addition to figuring out my next smartphone—and looking forward to a future in which that device will have a folding display like the Samsung Z Fold2—I’m also struggling to find a new wearable, which could be a fitness tracker or a smartwatch, for my Fitbit.
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