Bought a Pixel 2 XL

[FlyingPenguin]

Nope. Wish it had it. But the USB-C jack is a big improvement over the old micro.

[Executioner]

After looking at it again, I was disappointed that it did not support micro cards. I have a 64g micro with almost 50g of music. Wonder why they did not add micro card support? I can live without the headphone jack and wireless charging, but a micro card? WTF?

[FlyingPenguin]

I sorta felt the same way, but I ended up buying the 128GB version of the phone (my old phone was a 64 with a 64GB sdcard). Works out the same for me.

[Losbot]

I too have the 128G version.
Also, unless it's changed, Google gives you unlimited storage of photos you take with the Pixel2. Every 2 or 3 months, it asks if I want to clean up like 20 or 30 gigs of photos that are automatically backed up. They'll still show up (thumbnails) but if I don't have it locally, it'll download it back into the phone so I can share it or whatever.

[FlyingPenguin]

Yeah, they still offer unlimited storage on Google Photos. I have the auto-sync for that turned off because I don't really want ALL my photos in the cloud. I just download them from the phone on a regular basis. But it is a nice option.

[Losbot]

Yeah....gotta keep the porn pics to yourself?

[FlyingPenguin]

Yeah. Right

I sync very little to Google. Call me paranoid. I only sync Gmail, Contacts and Calendar. I take responsibility for backing up everything else myself.

Google is just as bad as Facebook in their own way, they're just more honest about it and give you good intuitive privacy controls.

[Losbot]

I back up to my NAS but I don't mind keeping a set on Google Drive.