The Pixel 9 Pro and even the Pixel 9 Pro XL may not have LTPO displays in India, Malaysia and Singapore. In those regions they have Actua Displays instead of the Super Actua Displays that are used on units sold in the rest of the world. Note that Actua and Super Actua tech is about display brightness rather than refresh rate, but it still shows that different panels are used. That is strange since the Pixel 8 Pro (the large phone that is the predecessor of the 9 Pro XL) already had an LTPO panel.

So, the article is based on speculation instead of hard evidence. They dropped the may and made a concrete statement in the title.

Anyway, there’s more – Pixel 9 phones sold in India do not support Wi-Fi 7, but phones sold anywhere else (including Malaysia and Singapore) do. This includes the two Pro models and the vanilla Pixel 9.

So, only in India?

We should note that India’s wireless agency still hasn’t okayed the use of the 6GHz band. That said, Wi-Fi 7 has improvements that also function in the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, so there’s no reason to drop support, whether or not the phones ever get to use the 6GHz band.

And the reason being regulation in India.

sigh news these days…

How would that work? An easy way would be to ask one of the instance local mods to pin the post. That should work.

Sony does not sell smartphones in my region.

Because google like all things google does not bother. I mean why would they if things are going just as well. Not like you and I are going to switch to a rival OS without google services.

I’m one such user. I notice the less smooth animations and the lack of App opening animations with them daily.

The reason I still use Smart Launcher is because of its amazing auto app categories, and smart search which is unrivaled by the system launcher.

Not to mention the aesthetics and blurred widgets.

Bummer. I guess just some federation shenanigans ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sure, done

M55 is much cheaper. You can see the prices on flipkart and amazon here:

https://www.amazon.in/SAMSUNG-Galaxy-S23-Mint-Storage/dp/B0CJXPYJC3/

https://www.flipkart.com/samsung-galaxy-m55-5g-denim-black-black-256-gb/p/itmb84fd818684b9?hl_lid=&q=M55

https://www.amazon.in/Samsung-Awesome-Iceblue-Storage-Nightography/dp/B0CWPCFSM3

Hmm, its the exact opposite in my case. The A55 is more expensive here in india.

Huge batteries that die faster than a Pixel with half the capacity, cameras with infinity megapixels that just end up taking huge terrible photos, software updates lololol, usually the tackiest theme overlaid so you get blue highlights on buttons with green backgrounds…

Never had such issues. Infact, last I knew pixels were bad with battery life.

I’ve had way too many pieces of crap Xiaomi and Doogee and Ulefones over the years to ever go back after having a couple of Pixels.

That was your issue. I was talking about something mainstream from oneplus, realme, etc. Xiaomi makes good hardware but their software can use some work. I avoid xiaomi but others from bbk electronics like oneplus and realme and good.

Pixels always had subpar hardware at best. Don’t expect that to change now. Oneplus and other chinese manufacturers are the ones innovating now. Be it in the form of super fast charging or providing large bateries.

Word is next year you would be getting phones with large capacities such as 5500-6000mah. Xiaomi was recently testing large batteries with super fast charging for batteries upto 7500mah and 100w of fast charging.

I’m frustrated with the lack of sdcard options in upper midrange smartphones.

If you get a midrange smartphone you either compromise on processor, ram, storage or a combination of other.

I want a good quality smartphone which has 45w of minimum fast charging, UFS 3.1 256GB of minimum. 12GB ram, snapdragon 7+gen 2, or dimensity 8300 at minimum. And provides an sdcard option.

Is it that hard for brands to do that?

Nothing phone 2 and 2a would’ve been decent. If they had an sdcard option. Alas, they skipped it for some reason…

2 out of the 4 phones are not available in my region. Or the fact that they all start at $469 minimum.

As for the A55. Outside of 12GB ram and sdcard support. Why would you not get the S23 Fe instead if all you wanted was a good camera? You get wireless charging, a flagship chipset (however inefficient and heat prone it may be) and a telephoto camera.

At least it has expandable storage. 3.5mm jack is only available on low end Smartphones, Sony smartphones and some rare smartphones like the one released by moondrop with 2 headphone jacks.

I don’t think Fdroid is so large to be able to create something such as a Foss payment processor. If they could do that, it would be awesome.

The GNU foundation is working on GNU taler. But, it’s not adopted by any known bank, or fintech company.

Then, people on this post’s comments are saying that they would be good with a “pay what you can/want” concept, but, again, that’s already the case with donations. It’s literally how donations work.

The slight difference being its present on a source repository/website and is optional. Instead of being tightly integrated in the app like they desire.

Those same apks would also include ads. What makes you think if the developer has ads on fdroid, he won’t on github?

You value Foss software which does not track?

Advertisment part not withstanding

They want to add paid apps where you need to make a payment before getting access to the App. It’s not the same as the current donate approach

The smartphone is set to receive three major Android updates and four years of security updates.

This was according to the article. Sony has moved past 2 years of updates.

I guess sustainability is something Sony has started to care about. Seeing the zero plastic and recycled materials being used now.

It’s compact if you compare to most other android smartphones which have 6.7-6.8 inches of display size.