Google has finally addressed one of the recently revealed multitasking issues that are plaguing early Pixel 3 buyers. And it says it will fix this problem via a software update.
To be clear, it has only specifically addressed one of the known multitasking issues.
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“We will be rolling out a software update in the coming weeks to address the rare case of a photo not properly saving,” a Google statement curtly notes.
Unfortunately, this is only one of two major multitasking issues in the newly-released Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL: As I and many others have also experienced, these new handsets will often quickly kill apps running in the background. This includes media streaming apps, so the audio playback ends when the app is killed.
These problems, plus other issues like tinny/echoing sound quality in the external speakers, have had a debilitating effect on early Pixel 3 buyers. And like many, I suspect, I’ve simply decided to return mine and continue examining other phone options. Given the many issues that users had with the Pixel 2 XL over the past year, I assume this stance is understandable.
Will Google ever get its own hardware right? I’m honestly not sure. But I may no longer be around to find out. I’ve got a OnePlus 6T, Apple iPhone XR, and now a Samsung Galaxy S9+ coming to the house over the next several days. And I intend to pick a handset that actually works.
wocowboy
Premium Member<p>The bias of the "YouTuber" community favoring the Pixel is glaringly obvious with this new model and all the manufacturing and software faults it has. Within minutes of someone mentioning the selfie face-smoothing thing in iOS, EVERY YouTuber with an unboxing or tech blog of any sort was out with a video slamming the iPhone as broken, bad, not worth buying, they were going to send it back, etc etc etc. But with the photo non-saving, memory problems, inability to multitask, glass back that can be horribly scratched within minutes of unboxing, and everything else that has now come out about the Pixel, not one of them has released a video on any of these subjects. Perhaps the best known of all the YouTubers, Lou of Unbox Therapy, has not said ONE WORD about any of these problems, and he was out with a FaceGate video within an hour of it first being mentioned on a tech site. Bias is quite obvious. </p>