Google’s newest flagship smartphones aren’t actually proving to be the masterpiece mix of know-how, {hardware} and design that I used to be anticipating them to be. After utilizing the unique Pixel final 12 months, I used to be satisfied that Google was heading in an excellent route with its telephones (the boring industrial design apart).
This time, whereas Google fastened most of my design issues with the Pixel 2, the corporate appears to have dropped the ball on a number of events in terms of software program on the gadget.
Sure, I’m speaking in regards to the plethora of bugs which have plagued the smartphone ever because it was first launched. The cellphone has had a grainy show, washed out colors, bizarre clicking sounds, and quite a lot of different points over the previous few months, and Huge G has been ‘fixing’ them one after the opposite.
So think about my frustration when one in every of my colleagues, Sharun, noticed one more bug together with his Pixel 2.
Seems, you probably have ‘Present faucets’ enabled in Developer Choices in your Pixel 2 smartphone, anytime you place your fingers in your cellphone display when the display is on, after which lock the cellphone, the all the time on show reveals the registered places of the faucets on the display as effectively. One thing like this:
True, most individuals in all probability don’t allow ‘Present faucets’ on their telephones (I solely know Sharun to be doing that) so this bug will in all probability not even be observed by most individuals. That, nonetheless, doesn’t imply that it’s not a bug, and it actually is annoying.
We’ve reached out to Google for a press release on this and we’ll replace this text if we hear from them.
As of now, in case you’re one of many few individuals who allow ‘Present faucets’ on their telephones, attempt to hold it off till Google fixes this subject. As with most issues Google, I’m assuming the corporate will push out a repair for this within the close to future, so keep tuned.
