any reliable info on pixel 10?
The P10 will have an SoC from TSMC instead of Samsung. It should be much more efficient than any previous pixel.
The modems in the 9 series are a huge advantage over the Pixels between the 6-8 generation. They are really bad but I've personally used the 9 pro and its phenomenonal. I could only imagine the ten improving on that. The 9a will have the old generation modems so just look out for that.
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Much info on the Pixel 10 (including CAD-renders) and the Tensor G5 is already available on GSMarena:
https://www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_10s_gpu_might_come_courtesy_of_imagination-news-67068.php
https://www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_10_pro_fold_cad_renders_design-news-67179.php
https://www.gsmarena.com/google_tensor_g5_leak_details_key_changes_-news-67008.php
https://www.gsmarena.com/big_leak_details_specs_for_google_tensor_g5_and_g6_-news-65048.php
Blastoidea sure bud, I purchased my first p8 right of it's release date. in 3-4 months of regular use, it had a shallow diving incident, bathtube with clean water(no soap) for few seconds a usual average drop in water, not from any critical height so it would've been impacted mechanichaly, it simply slided down the tub's side wall in to the bath itself. I took it out immediately shutdown and put under a warm blow dryer evenly spreading the air flow one side to another. It never turned on after that. I did not go for warranty claim since despite google selling it as an ip68 protected device, they right there state that pixel 8 with water damage is not covered by warranty. as opposed my s20 serves me for 5 years, now. and first 2.5 i was abusing it's ip68 rate left to right, such as if i weared my pants or workout shorts my s20 was hooked on that waist. Abuse included 4 times a week workouts with extreme sweating all over that s20, couple times a month atlantic swimming right after those sweaty workouts. The first ever water related issue it gave me is once in was submerged it lost any radio connection such as cellular and bluetooth(I as well always had my Jabra 75T-Active also ip68 rated btw, and which also successfully survived all those sweting-water-swimming-diving adventures apllied to my s20 and only gave up when I dropped and left them on the street for all night under a semi-storm(florida) guess what I went back to that spot in the morning, found my jabras in a 5 inch deep puddle and they still half-worked, watch for next one: Jabra had voluntarily extended warranty for that model and i took approach. After couple days back-n-forth calling they approved my claim only required me to ship the bad ones back and sent a pair of new 75T-Active Jabras (even offered me different newely released colors that were not available when i purchsed them initially, without the case since i kept my old one). The s20 once got knocked down by a full hot shower session. It shutdown itself then refused to turn on, i gave it strong blow dryer session where its back glass got unglued and flipped to a side while it was screen-down. I used that incident to get a little deeper and detected a couple water drops right there on the logic board next to the camera modules, I precisely blow dried that wet spot checked again no more wet detected, closed the back glass back in it's place the adhesive was still fine and it set back in as supposed and set it aside. in couple hours tried to turn it on and succeded it turned back on and ever since is still on duty right here in front of me right now.
sorry for a long read, but that is my experience with ip68 devices compare to p8 ip68rate as opposed.
Ok done with the ip68 rate of pixel 8.
i purchased a new p8 again, this one lived feb - end of july. Suddenly after next autoreboot it got stock on google logo, I only was able to shut it back down. Then it refused to turn back on, unless I plugged the charger in, and even with charger plugged it only booted to the google logo, I think not even showed Graphene OS logo. So i put it aside as not working. And in next few days while it was sitting on my desk, i noticed that there was space between the screen and phone's body, it looked like the screen was being pushed out of the phone, I tried to turn on same result only plugged and only to google logo. Put it aside again, and since then the screen was getting pressed out. Later I figured it was the battery bloating that pushed the screen out. Finally the screen is now only attached to the phone's body by the cable so if i take the phone screen hangs on that cable.
My absolutely disgusting warranty experience with this p8 bloated battery is out of scope of your questions i guess.
so now I am on my 3rd p8 bought from amazon, renewed I think. so far the newely released device diagnostic is failing the touchscreen test and i an issue with keeping correct time(clock is often late after phone battery dies, many times I wake up with phone dead due to battery turn it back on and time is hours late, I actually had real life problems caused by this) GrapheneOS expessed opinion that it is a unit specific hardware failure, I have no will to dig into this as I am fucking sick of these pixel 8s issues.
I hope you'll find my detailed response helpfull and in case any of your concerns were not covered by it feel free to ask.
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Pocketstar damn no light in the tunnel for a smaller pixel again. thank you for sharing.
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Onlyfun No problem! I'm glad I could help.
Perhaps the Pixel 10a will be a smaller phone, but that will be a waiting game, it'll take at least another year, and there is no certainty.
Onlyfun For that reason and that my payment app again stopped working properly, I switched back to an Xperia Z1 Compact with IodeOS and a regular bank card.
Low tech on that side. I don't have much on my phone. The important stuff stays at home on my Pixel Tablet running GOS.
So the Pixel 10 will use Tensor G5 3nm instead of the previous Tensor G4 4nm. The smaller the nm the better power efficiency to my understanding. Does the increased power efficiancy equals longer battery life in any meaningful extent when doing light tasks mostly being idle and maybe some textning?
Also I've read that different modems energy efficiancies re also somewhat important for battery life, is this true?
I'm about to purchase a new Pixel phone, due to weeklong outdoors activities battery life is important. So any info on how each Pixels models battery life/energy efficnacy compares to each other would be very welcome. Any links or opinions?
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VEECCdYKYi So the Pixel 10 will use Tensor G5 3nm instead of the previous Tensor G4 4nm. The smaller the nm the better power efficiency to my understanding. Does the increased power efficiancy equals longer battery life in any meaningful extent when doing light tasks mostly being idle and maybe some textning?
It depends. If each transistor is smaller then more can be fit in the same space! Once the new device ships people will be able to measure it.