Christian uses his phone so much for the stuff he does at school that after two and a half years with his Samsung Note 4, he about wore it out. He wanted to get a new one, but the deals are so bad at Sprint these days for decent smart phones–about all they have available for a reasonable price are iphones, but who in their right mind would want one of those–that he decided to get the Google Pixel phone because he had heard good things about. The first thing he found was that, while the back camera is just awesome, the selfie camera is really pretty mediocre (see the picture below). The screen is great and the phone does everything he wants it to
do (which for him is a lot), but the main feature is that the phone is not so locked down you cannot do what you want. Christian says the phone is about the same size as our current Samsung Note 4’s and then he says the following:
It’s not as ‘impressive’ looking as some of the other phones because it has the bezels. It is also very bland, 0 features 0 bling, but that is the point. Its a good phone with no garbage.
I think that is the whole point. Most of the service and phone companies try to control what you do with “their” phones so much that you cannot use it the way you want. At any rate, it is great he got the phone when he did because I, for the third time, got him an AM ticket when I thought I was getting a PM ticket so he is getting in to the airport WAY early and will have something with which to entertain himself while he is waiting. I think Kelly will probably show up early and take him to dinner.
