Google Pixel 9 Pro XL review
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- T the Tinkerer
- 4P8
- 23 Aug 2024
Pixels will never have good battery life due to Google's constant data collection in the background. Even if they switch to tsmc, you'll still get overheating and poor standby.
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- Anonymous
- vxx
- 23 Aug 2024
Casio, 23 Aug 2024Why GSM never listed the biggest CON of any pixel phone is ... moreMost western services are blocked in China anyway, you'll need to download local services in China with any phone bought outside China.
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- Shiny Dave
- mpw
- 23 Aug 2024
I can absolutely believe that this really is slower than the 8 Pro. And it would certainly be destroyed by the S24 Ultra, which happens to have most if not all of the same machine learning tricks that are the notional Pixel USP at this point. The only thing this has over that is stock Android, and you'd really have to hate One UI to still want this over an S24 Ultra.
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- dd
- pvj
- 23 Aug 2024
PWM still butchering eyes?
- Vasra
- iA@
- 23 Aug 2024
All models, regardless of storage have the 2 year old UFS 3.1
https://www.androidauthority.com/pixel-9-ufs-storage-3473676/
You really are paying for overpriced 2 year old hardware at this point.
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- Aierlan
- qCe
- 23 Aug 2024
Casio, 23 Aug 2024Well Huawei phones with Harmony OS is not sold in Europe, b... moreIt's an English language website based in Europe. If a Chinese reviewer was reviewing a pixel they would definitely point this out but they wouldn't point out Huawei not having gms as a weakness because this doesn't matter in China and is not a weakness in China. This website is not targeting a Chinese audience. The Chinese reviewers produce far more detailed comprehensive reviews in Chinese than are available here so the Chinese audience on this website would be small outside the Chinese expat community. Bit of a dumb point you are trying to make really
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- Casio
- gLI
- 23 Aug 2024
Aierlan, 23 Aug 2024It should be fine with a vpn. It's just that google a... moreWell Huawei phones with Harmony OS is not sold in Europe, but each time GSM has to mention their phones lackng of GMS as a con, why is that then? Bias maybe?
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- Anonymous
- JHr
- 23 Aug 2024
N00bie, 23 Aug 2024Day 1 of asking GSMA to include reviews/analysis of signal ... moreAlso 4g standby consumption test
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- Anonymous
- gX{
- 23 Aug 2024
Aierlan, 23 Aug 2024For bands I mentioned it depends on the country so this arg... moreAlso for vivo phones, they locked LTE Band 20 under software which you can unlock by unlocking the bootloader and rooting the phone.
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- Anonymous
- gX{
- 23 Aug 2024
Aierlan, 23 Aug 2024For bands I mentioned it depends on the country so this arg... moreLTE Band 20 is supported and depends on which region you purchased it from.
If you're in Europe, all Google Pixel 9 series has LTE Band 20.
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- Anonymous
- KAp
- 23 Aug 2024
"..sideloading them got us results which were way to low (lower than Pixel 8 Pro, for instance) to be considered as representative."
Wouldn't be surprised if they are !!
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- GMB
- y20
- 23 Aug 2024
Aierlan, 23 Aug 2024For bands I mentioned it depends on the country so this arg... moreLooking at the Google UK store tech specs: LTE Band 20 is mentioned under the NW section for the P9Pro and XL - what info were you basing your comment on? It's important to me that this can perform well as a phone in the UK as the 7 sadly hasn't.
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- Anonymous
- 6kd
- 23 Aug 2024
I'm more interested how the smaller 9 Pro performs. in bound quality and battery endurance.
Everyone is reviewing the XL model and found just couple of youtubers that talk bit more about the smaller one than just a side note that it exists.
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- Anonymous
- Nug
- 23 Aug 2024
YUKI93, 22 Aug 2024It's not hard to see the Pixel has a better colour and... more"Galaxy images are bad blah blah" yet the galaxy seems to eclipse the other two phone paired with it. The iPhone is the worst out of the 3. So greenish and yellowish
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- Aierlan
- KhH
- 23 Aug 2024
Casio, 23 Aug 2024Why GSM never listed the biggest CON of any pixel phone is ... moreIt should be fine with a vpn. It's just that google apks are blocked and the pixel uses all native google apks. Google apks are blocked for all Chinese companies also though but the Chinese companies have their own solutions. Pixel phones aren't even sold in China though so I don't really think it's a con they would logically need to mention.
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- N00bie
- 7k{
- 23 Aug 2024
Day 1 of asking GSMA to include reviews/analysis of signal strength, connectivity (of various 4G and 5G bands including CA), DL/UL speeds etc. Specs are just specs, real world usage matters more.
most written reviews are focusing on screens, camera etc but miss out on the core reasons of using a smartphone, which is communications.
I'm sure that many people would appreciate it
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- S37
- 23 Aug 2024
Casio, 23 Aug 2024Why GSM never listed the biggest CON of any pixel phone is ... morechina is bricked? time to change that
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- Casio
- gLI
- 23 Aug 2024
Why GSM never listed the biggest CON of any pixel phone is that you cannot use it in China? its basically a brick if you bring this phone to China!
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- tso
- S37
- 23 Aug 2024
a major design flaw is the 4x Cortex-A520 is more or less useless for modern apps
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- tso
- S37
- 23 Aug 2024
Aierlan, 23 Aug 2024Fair enough. Very good phone alright! good? AnTuTu score 13,23,184 vs SD 8 g4 31,33,570 around the corner