The tradeoff of putting a giant bezel on top of the phone in order to support being able to take a tiny number of actions in a few apps by waving your hands instead of touching your phone was... Probably not the right tradeoff. How often do you use your phone without, y'know, also holding it in your hand, and thus being able to touch it? And if they hadn't shipped Soli in the 4, I wonder if they would've saved enough manufacturing $$ to put an ultrawide camera in to compete with the iPhone 11...
From the current leaks it sounds like Soli isn't going to make it into the Pixel 4a; I'm curious whether it makes it into the 5 (and TBH hope it doesn't, unless they can figure out how to not make it take up a huge amount of bezel space).
Soli makes a lot of sense for the Google/Nest Home line of products, where you rarely are close enough to touch them. But for your phone? I just don't get it, and it seems like few people find it useful. I'm pretty surprised it shipped and would be very curious to learn how that happened, since it seems to have negatively impacted the product pretty heavily.
From the current leaks it sounds like Soli isn't going to make it into the Pixel 4a; I'm curious whether it makes it into the 5 (and TBH hope it doesn't, unless they can figure out how to not make it take up a huge amount of bezel space).
Soli makes a lot of sense for the Google/Nest Home line of products, where you rarely are close enough to touch them. But for your phone? I just don't get it, and it seems like few people find it useful. I'm pretty surprised it shipped and would be very curious to learn how that happened, since it seems to have negatively impacted the product pretty heavily.