The Pixel 9 series has way better battery life, but it also delivers improvements to charging. One of those improvements is that the Pixel 9 has higher requirements for fast charging, helping you better know if your charger is truly up to speed.
I don’t get it
Why would you want your battery to change so fast? It gets hot and isn’t great for the battery. I just want all day battery life and then a trickle change overnight. My current phone does that
I’m just waiting for capacitors to replace batteries. I read a really promising article recently and it said they figured out how to make a capacitor hold more energy much longer which means when that comes to market leaving your phone charging overnight will be a thing of the past.
This is dumb, just display the charging rate. Why bother with these generic contextless adjectives?
Because many people are not smart. If they buy a 65w charger and see only 60w being pulled they’ll complain that either the charger or phone is defective and want a refund.
I would like to see it as an option to enable, at the moment though I just have a few cables that measure/display this for me. It’s a useful basic troubleshooting tool with laptops and phones. If you plug them in and dont see any current or only 0.1w, you know there’s a problem with the device getting power.
45W is still not really fast though, Moto is at 50. Wirelessly. Wired at 125.
But to be fair, Apple is at ~30W. And that’s just sad.
Raises the bar? Don’t the realme phones come with ridiculous fast charging like 1 kW?
(The number is an hyperbole)
And lowers the bar for overheating and longevity.
I just got a new phone (reluctantly) and it feels like 90% of the “features” are useless marketing gimmicks.
Most people still use their phones for very similar purposes to 2016 or even 2012. Instead of providing properly optimized software and batteries that last weeks, we get these huge heavy expensive unoptimized pieces of techno garbage. And of course they need fast charging, otherwise you’d be wired to a charter half the time.
I’m practically forced to spend 10€ per month, even if I’m hesitant to buy new stuff, just to have a reasonable phone. That’s crazy.
I’m practically forced to spend 10€ per month, even if I’m hesitant to buy new stuff, just to have a reasonable phone. That’s crazy.
What? Who forces you to pay that?
Life.
I need a smartphone for my job (authenticator), bank, social life, etc.
Buying a new phone in the range of 500€ and having to replace that every 4-5 years, comes down to about 10€ per month.
Of course I could buy a cheaper phone, but those usually get barely any software updates, which I find rather frightening, and often enough break for other reasons (battery dead, ports worn out, cracked display). So it’s not really cheaper.
