Post reply

The message has the following error or errors that must be corrected before continuing:: Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days.
Unless you're sure you want to reply, please consider starting a new topic.

Name
Email
Subject
Message icon

Other options

Return to this topic
Don't use smileys

Verification:

Please leave this box empty:

Shortcuts: ALT+S post or ALT+P preview

Topic summary

Posted by S.Yu

- October 25, 2019, 20:49:30

No big deal, just that even fewer people will be paying attention to this device until it's 40% off.

Posted by Vaidyanathan

- October 23, 2019, 11:15:45

Quote from: Thomas M on October 23, 2019, 10:13:29
Why Google has done it? Pretty obvious to me - battery life.
You've mentioned oneplus and rog phone - these phones have big batteries, rog 2 almost twice the size at 5Ah compared to pixels 4 tiny 2.8Ah. Battery life on pixel 4 is a joke as is, if you force 90Hz it will make it a total disaster. People who decided to use this tiny battery really shot themselves in the foot. Why would you buy this over competition? Even Iphones have bigger batteries than this this year.

The battery life part is understandable. But who would use their phone's display above 75% unless you're in the outdoors on a bright sunny day? It's a double whammy on the already poor battery.

Posted by Thomas M

- October 23, 2019, 10:13:29

Why Google has done it? Pretty obvious to me - battery life.
You've mentioned oneplus and rog phone - these phones have big batteries, rog 2 almost twice the size at 5Ah compared to pixels 4 tiny 2.8Ah. Battery life on pixel 4 is a joke as is, if you force 90Hz it will make it a total disaster. People who decided to use this tiny battery really shot themselves in the foot. Why would you buy this over competition? Even Iphones have bigger batteries than this this year.

Posted by Redaktion

- October 23, 2019, 09:13:09

The Google Pixel 4's 90 Hz Smooth Display feature seems to be dependent on the display brightness setting and not on the 'content' as was originally claimed by Google. This was first discovered by a Redditor and subsequently confirmed by other reviewers as well. Although there is a way to force 90 Hz in the Developer settings, by default, the Pixel 4's screen can refresh at 90 Hz only if the brightness slider is set above the 75% mark.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Cheeky-Google-The-Pixel-4-throttles-the-display-refresh-rate-based-on-brightness-setting-and-you-wouldn-t-even-know-it.439984.0.html