Comment by Al-Khwarizmi | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Al-Khwarizmi | Hacker News Reader

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Still no 512 GB model in Europe.

I got my 512 GB Pixel 6 Pro by having a friend but it for me in Australia and shipping it by mail. It arrived safely after a more than 17K km trip and some customs paperwork, and I'm very happy with it, but I don't think I'm going to do that again for the 7 Pro.

Sometimes I feel tempted to switch to Apple just because they don't do this market segmentation thing (or at least in the countries that I know of). If you want 512, you pay and you get it. If you want 1 TB, you pay and you get it.

Why can't we get 512 GB in Europe on a phone with a great camera that many of us use to take lots of photos and videos, Google? It doesn't make sense.

If you have a 6 Pro, why would you need to buy a replacement after only a year?

consumerism

Yeah, guilty as charged, but in my defense, I change phones often but my replaced phones go to different family members, who are happy with past generation flagships. My previous two phones are being used and all the previous ones had long lives, it's not like I just bin them.

If they sold the 512 7 Pro in Europe I might buy it and offer the 6 Pro to my mother-in-law who has a 5 or so year-old phone now (or my mother with her 4-year-old one, or maybe to my wife, and she in turn to her mother), but I don't think I will be going through the Australian workaround and the associated customs and warranty risks for that.

Fair enough at least the devices get a second life.

Just curious, why do you need so much storage?

Only 128gb Pixel 7 Pro available on the Google Store here in Australia. AUD 1299.

My first thought that the higher storage phones need to be repriced due to strong USD.

Are you sure? If I go to store.google.com/au, I can see the obsidian one for A$1,599. It's not available for the other colors, it was the same for the 6 Pro (the 512 model was only made in black).

I also can't get 512 in Canada. It only lists up to 256

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