Readit NewsOkay, there were some beers involved...
Basically you have to make compromises on performance and camera and then this was, what i came up with: - Zenfone 10 (flagship with prices still above launch price (!), which soon gets no updates anymore) - Unihertz Jelly Max (small, but thick and bad camera) - Rakuten Hand 5G and Rakuten Mini (also bad camera and older Android) - Balmuda Phone (which i really like, but also bad camera and discontinued, so probably not even security updates and no custom rom support) - Bluefox NX1 (really tempting, but appearantly kind of bad build quality and no NFC)
All other options are even older phones. Samsung S25 line does exist, but i really like vanilla Android. I think the price chart of the Zenfone DOES somehow indicates the existence of a market and i wonder if it would be big enough for a small niche player!?
Personally I am considering a pixel 8, which is the "smallest" of current phones, but it still really isn't small. And i don't see myself as a Google customer because of the battery topic...
I personally would have been more happy had Eric made a small android phone instead of the new pebble, but hey...
Otherwise, normally with the amount of capital raised by Windsurf, the founders must have signed some kind of non-compete for the event of a bad-leaver (which this obviously is). Guess covering these penalties was just part of Google's deal, hm?
What do you guys think? Should we give it as go? Apparently it's funded via s Kickstarter...
Rumor has it they ran an internal poll on whether their employees would purchase AI glasses which is their first step when developing a new product.
So if that really might be the way forward in mind when developing liquid glass, I think they did a pretty good job. Curious to see how this works in more complex UIs - I'd expect, that it has to play along with a very reduced number of visible UI components in sight.
Being a sceptic about the latter at first I must say, I wish the technology would finally allow having a "normal" pair of glasses with high resolution, no cable attached, AR overlay screens.
Anyone else?
Anyone already started building this? :-).
Would bring my social RSS reader back to life too. Had the exact same experience others have described here: it's not worth the time investing anymore at some point...