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I've got a Pixel XL 1st Gen currently, which cost me about £800. I've also got a pair of Bose Quiet Comfort II over ear bluetooth headphones which cost me £300.

With such investments, I'd expect to not keep losing the connection between the phone and the headphones - but I do. They drop out frequently on my way to work, where my trusty Shure SE315s never do.

Also, Google seem to have done something terrible to their bluetooth stack since the upgrade to Oreo. My phone frequently soft resets whilst hooked up to Bluetooth (either my headphones, or my car - doesn't matter which). Again, not a problem when using the headphone jack.

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To be fair, the Pixel 1st Gen has a headphone jack. And the Pixel 2 has bluetooth 5.0 (compared to bluetooth 4.2 for the Pixel 1st Gen), which has significantly better range, reliability, speed, message capacity and data throughput. Google only dropped the jack for devices with bluetooth 5.0.

It's a weak defence, because multiple people had issues with bluetooth on the Pixel 2.