The Google Pixel 9 Professional has a number of key upgrades over the outdated Pixel 8 that earn it its “pro” moniker and likewise justify the worth premium over the Pixel 9. Amongst them is an upgraded LTPO show panel – or it ought to have been, anyway. It seems that it’s important to learn the tremendous print.
The Pixel 9 Professional and even the Pixel 9 Professional XL could not have LTPO shows in India, Malaysia and Singapore. In these areas they’ve Actua Shows as an alternative of the Tremendous Actua Shows which can be used on items bought in the remainder of the world. Observe that Actua and Tremendous Actua tech is about show brightness reasonably than refresh price, however it nonetheless exhibits that totally different panels are used. That’s unusual because the Pixel 8 Professional (the massive telephone that’s the predecessor of the 9 Professional XL) already had an LTPO panel.
This is probably not 100% correct because the specs do record “1280 x 2856 LTPO OLED at 495 PPI” and “1344 x 2992 LTPO OLED at 486 PPI” for the Pixel 9 Professional and 9 Professional XL, respectively. The web shops even say “Super Actua Displays”. Nonetheless, Google has to clear issues up and provides a sure sure or no.
Anyway, there’s extra – Pixel 9 telephones bought in India don’t assist Wi-Fi 7, however telephones bought anyplace else (together with Malaysia and Singapore) do. This contains the 2 Professional fashions and the vanilla Pixel 9.
What concerning the Google Pixel 9 Professional Fold? That has an LTPO internal show and an everyday Actua cowl show in all places. However the Wi-Fi state of affairs is murky. The Indian mannequin is listed as supporting “Wi-Fi 7 (802.11ax)”. Wi-Fi 7 is 802.11be, ax is Wi-Fi 6, in order that’s a typo. This error is current in each the specs listed by the net retailer and on the Google assist web page. However is the “7” the typo or is it the “ax”? Contemplating that its siblings don’t have Wi-Fi 7, we predict the Fold doesn’t both.
We should always word that India’s wi-fi company nonetheless hasn’t okayed using the 6GHz band. That mentioned, Wi-Fi 7 has enhancements that additionally operate within the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, so there’s no motive to drop assist, whether or not or not the telephones ever get to make use of the 6GHz band.
One other factor we observed is that Google VPN, which is free for Pixel 9 customers, isn’t out there within the following international locations: Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia and Slovenia.
There are just a few different variations, however they’re the standard regional variations. For instance, totally different areas use totally different 5G bands (sub-6GHz and mmWave), Pixels in Japan assist FeliCa and so forth. The opposite variations are more durable to clarify, nonetheless.
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