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It wants me to think different.
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It’s hard to hear above the Apple noise.
Especially when Apple launches not one phone, but three.
Still, Google just released Pixel 3, a phone that has attracted much praise, as well as a few snorts that it fails to store all your pictures.
I wanted to see how Verizon — the exclusive purveyor of the Pixel 3 — was presenting this new phone.
So I wandered along to a Bay Area store to find out.
No sooner had I stepped through the doors than there it was. Or, rather, they were. The Pixel 3 and the 3 XL.
A kindly-looking salesman — I’m sorry, Solutions Specialist — immediately accosted me.
I explained that I’d seen an ad for the Pixel 3, the one that showed how the phone would automatically fix your terrible photos.
“You can pose for a group shot and it won’t take the picture unless everyone is smiling,” he said, a touch too beatifically.
“Wait, isn’t that a little creepy?” I asked. “Not everyone wants to smile in pictures.”
“You can override it,” he replied.
I asked him what was so good about the phone. He said that people were buying them and that it was a very well-made phone “that’s just as good as the iPhones or the Samsungs.”