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Google Pixel 9 design revealed through 5K renders (andrew.masto.host)

submitted 7 months ago by andrew@andrew.masto.host to c/android@lemdro.id

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Google Pixel 9 design revealed through 5K renders

https://www.91mobiles.com/hub/google-pixel-9-renders-design-exclusive/

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 18 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The Pixel 9 will have rounded corners with a flat display and a centered punch-hole selfie camera. The power button and volume keys are placed on the right side of a flat frame. The smartphone will feature a 6.03-inch display, slightly smaller than the Pixel 9 Pro’s 6.1-inch display.

In terms of dimensions, the Pixel 9 measures around 152.8 x 71.9 x 8.5mm, and 12mm with the rear camera bump, OnLeaks tells us.

So imitating Apple, a bunch of useless stuff like "adaptive touch depending on environment" and wireless charging.

Still no headphone jack.

Wow.

[–] kinkles@sh.itjust.works 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You’re expecting the headphone jack to make a miraculous comeback in the future?

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago

It is a huge security improvement. Using a DAC means I need to have USB always enabled (GrapheneOS has a toggle to disable all data which I would otherwise use) and Bluetooth is

used for tracking peoples movements
forcing expensive planned obsolescence heaphones with tiny li-ion batteries and proprietary chargers
also a security threat, as you have an open connection without any reason

[–] Welp_im_damned@lemdro.id 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you want the headphone jack buy a Sony Xperia, a Asus ZenFone, or a gaming phone

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

Those Gaming phones have nonexistent updates, and others are way less secure than Googles and thus not supported by GrapheneOS.

I switched from a Nokia with unofficial LineageOS to GrapheneOS, simply because I need this level of security to feel safe.

[–] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Forget the headphone jack. Give me back my SD card slot so I don't need to pay for your shitty storage for my own pictures.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 6 points 7 months ago

Both should have EU regulations, as both are used to increase planned obsolescence

[+] MaXimus421@lemmy.world -8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I struggle to understand why in 2024 you are dieing on the hill of a headphone jack. It's over. Let it go.

There's no argument you can make that will have any logic to it. There once was, but that time has passed, pal.

I am 99 percent sure if a guy had a jack on his phone, yet were listening to stuffs via BT headphones and they died, he wouldn't have a set of wired headphones on him.

And if I just so happen to have some wired ones on me to offer him, he'd probably be like,

"nah, thanks. I'll just charge these for 15 mins and it'll last another 3 hrs"

...

Let it go..

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's not over, though. Many mid-range and low-end phones are still being released with headphone jacks. Clearly there is a) still a market to sell this feature to and b) still a way of incorporating a headphone jack into the design of a modern smartphone. We can theorise and speculate over whether this market had crossover with the one that bought high-end phones (before the manufacturers forcibly split them into separate groups by only offering the headphone jack on their cheaper models) or whether a mid-range or low-end phone has the same design limitations as a high-end phone, but I think it's perfectly valid to continue to question why the headphone jack disappeared on more expensive phones. I don't think consumers have received an honest or acceptable explanation yet from manufacturers, and for as long as that is the case there will be people who feel like they've been fucked over by yet another "courageous" example of planned/forced obsolescence.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I guess the real question is how many people use it? I have not seen a pair of wired headphones in use in years.

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 9 points 7 months ago

That's half of the question. The other half is whether wired earphones would have died out as quickly as they have appeared to if phone manufacturers had not removed the headphone jack whilst simultaneously pushing their own brand of TWS earphones, often in a bundle with the new phone. Prior to TWS you didn't see that many Bluetooth earphones. A lot of people still got around with the famous wired iPhone ones, for example.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 13 points 7 months ago

the days of being remotely excited by phone design are way behind us. This looks like an iPhone 4 with a pixel 6+ camera bar. Meh.

[–] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh come on, that camera bar sticks out so much. I am so tired of this design gimmick. Every Pixel phone with a case already looks ridiculously thick just so that the stupid bar is protected. With how thick it looks on the Pixel 9, the whole phone is just going to be a chonker by the time someone slaps a case on it.

All this coming at a time when my perfectly fine Pixel 5 just got EOLed is demoralizing.

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 6 points 7 months ago

It's so sad how derivative phone designs are becoming. This looks even more like an iPhone than the redesigned Galaxy S series. The only market with any originality is the folding/flip one and that's only because Apple have entered it yet.

[–] MaXimus421@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

That camera pill is absolutely hidiouus. As per usual.

[–] UESPA_Sputnik@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm still not quite sold on the pill-shaped camera bar but I suppose this design helps with consistency across different types of device (normal phones, foldables, tablets), unlike the current camera visor.

[–] DaMN@lemmy.today 2 points 7 months ago

man that camera bump looks ugly asf, the best camera bump design was in pixel 6 pro this looks so bad.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 1 points 7 months ago

Noo what did they do to the visor

it looked so good before

[–] frostmore@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago

still riding on apple's bandwagon of dumb shit designs.