Mossberg: #google’s first phone is first rate
October 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
At long last, almost 8 years to the day the first Android phone went on sale, Google is launching a smartphone for which it designed the hardware, software and cloud ecosystem itself: the Pixel. No longer will the tech giant be entirely dependent on other companies to present Android in its best light, in hardware that varied wildly but never was built from the ground up to be the best physical instantiation of pure, Google Android.
I wrote last year and last week about why it makes sense for Google to become, like Apple, a vertically integrated hardware maker. I believe this is the right move. I believe it will shake up the industry. But the question is: how did Google do? How good is the Pixel?
