Been comparing the Pixel 9/10/11 and the gap is smaller than the marketing makes it sound, so curious what others think.
The way I read it: same 6.3in body all three years. The 9 actually has the biggest main sensor but no zoom lens. The 10 added a 5x zoom and the magnetic Qi2 charging but shrank the main camera. The 11 keeps the zoom, brings a bigger main sensor back, and bumps wireless to 25W. None of the base three get a vapor chamber, so they all throttle in long games.
My take: on a 10 I wouldn’t bother; on a 9 the zoom + magnets + faster wireless are the things you’d feel daily.
For the Pixel 9 and 10 owners here — has the camera or charging actually pushed anyone to upgrade, or is it a “wait for the 12” year?
My Pixel 7 would have to catch fire to get me to upgrade. Google is clearly trying to run the pixels into the ground. I’ll give it another couple of years then probably switch to Motorola if they still support GrapheneOS.
A $3 metal sticker can allow any phone to use all the new magnetic doohickeys on the market. The wireless charger isn’t 25W, but if you want to charge quickly you should plug in anyways.
I use one of those stickers on my phone and the Anker qi2 battery packs work perfectly fine (albeit a little slow)
I’m on an 8 and have no plans to change except perhaps to a fair phone and /e/os
Yeah, my 9 series, I just use a case with the magnet ring on it, works great. I can’t see a situation where the faster wireless charging would matter unless I only charged in the car or something where an hour of charging in a single go is the only time I’d be charging it.
Camera zoom - Sure, it’s be nice, but, not worth tossing a phone that works great for 99.9999% of the pictures I take and just in general works great still. It’s already got a 5x zoom, not sure how much more I could realistically want from it
I’m pretty underwhelmed with their offerings lately and probably wouldn’t even have a 9 if I wasn’t offered a great upgrade deal from my old 6.