<story><title>Pixel smartphone camera review: At the top</title><url>https://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Pixel-smartphone-camera-review-At-the-top</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arkitaip</author><text>Software is key and one of the selling point of Google made phones, like the Nexus 4, was the promise of a lightweight android installation with minimal apps. On my Nexus 4, this is no longer the case as you cannot remove Google&amp;#x27;s apps and they frequently require updates [1]. Add the fact that the really cool new Android features, e.g. Google Now, are poorly supported outside the US, and I&amp;#x27;m not sure my next phone will be a Google phone.&lt;p&gt;[1] Current list of these unremovable apps on my Nexus 4: Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Spreadsheets, Google Presentations, Cloud Print, E-mail, Google Now, Google Drive, Google Earth, Google Indic Keyboard, Google Keep, Google News &amp;amp; Weather, Google Play Books, Google Play Movies, Google Play Music, Google Play Games, Google Play News kiosk, Google street view, Google talkback, Google text to speech, Google+, Hangouts, Google Wifi connectivity, Youtube.</text></item><item><author>Ambroos</author><text>I just can&amp;#x27;t help but notice all phone cameras right now are incredibly close in quality, and the differences don&amp;#x27;t really matter anymore. The software experience has become the only important thing.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s an easy explanation for it too. Pretty much every single high-end phone released in the last two years uses a Sony sensor. They completely dominate the smartphone sensor market right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>DashRattlesnake</author><text>&amp;gt; On my Nexus 4, this is no longer the case as you cannot remove Google&amp;#x27;s apps and they frequently require updates&lt;p&gt;While I don&amp;#x27;t think you can properly &amp;quot;uninstall&amp;quot; Google+ and Hangouts, you can &amp;quot;disable&amp;quot; them, which makes them inaccessible.  I don&amp;#x27;t think you get updates pushed for disabled apps, either.</text></comment>
<story><title>Pixel smartphone camera review: At the top</title><url>https://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/Pixel-smartphone-camera-review-At-the-top</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>arkitaip</author><text>Software is key and one of the selling point of Google made phones, like the Nexus 4, was the promise of a lightweight android installation with minimal apps. On my Nexus 4, this is no longer the case as you cannot remove Google&amp;#x27;s apps and they frequently require updates [1]. Add the fact that the really cool new Android features, e.g. Google Now, are poorly supported outside the US, and I&amp;#x27;m not sure my next phone will be a Google phone.&lt;p&gt;[1] Current list of these unremovable apps on my Nexus 4: Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Spreadsheets, Google Presentations, Cloud Print, E-mail, Google Now, Google Drive, Google Earth, Google Indic Keyboard, Google Keep, Google News &amp;amp; Weather, Google Play Books, Google Play Movies, Google Play Music, Google Play Games, Google Play News kiosk, Google street view, Google talkback, Google text to speech, Google+, Hangouts, Google Wifi connectivity, Youtube.</text></item><item><author>Ambroos</author><text>I just can&amp;#x27;t help but notice all phone cameras right now are incredibly close in quality, and the differences don&amp;#x27;t really matter anymore. The software experience has become the only important thing.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s an easy explanation for it too. Pretty much every single high-end phone released in the last two years uses a Sony sensor. They completely dominate the smartphone sensor market right now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reactor</author><text>May be for Nexus 4, but I can uninstall those Google apps from my Nexus 5x, just tested.</text></comment>