Pixel 9 Pro XL

Using this Samsung A16 is maddening, I balk at having to pay $50 for this thing. It is slow, hard to navigate, and has garbage battery life. I just wish my Pixel 9 Pro XL didn't kill the motherboard and cost me about a year in photos because I always seem to use up drive storage too damn fast.

I still have my OnePlus 9 Pro, sadly I smashed the screen on day 2. Despite the broken screen it still feels and looks like a more premium device than my Pixel 9 Pro XL in terms of hardware, but the software really went down hill after the switch to the OPPO software. Now I want rid of the pixel because they destroyed battery life with an update in march they've still not fixed.

[...] Been using LineageOS and GrapheneOS for most of my life. Some things are not super convenient (I generally dont install non-free-software applications and don't have Google Play services enabled), but the rest of the experience is great. No crashes, no bugs, no unexpected behavior. Currently I'm using the Pixel 9 Pro XL. [...]

[...] Photos are with Ente (shitty buggy apps but e2e & managed hosting), Mail, Calendar and cloud storage is at Proton, Keep notes were moved to Obsidian (best decision ever). Phone is a Pixel 9 Pro XL with GrapheneOS but I'm ready to ditch it once Motorola ships their 2027 flagships supporting GrapheneOS. [...] I guess one just gets used to the overall brokenness, daily feature flag changes and the feeling of every interaction with their stuff being stored and analyzed forever.

Pixel 9 Pro XL ("What can you see?"; photo of small monitor displaying stats in my home office) 1st token: 7.48s Prefill speed: 35.02 tokens/s Decode speed: 5.72 tokens/s Latency: 86.88s It did a pretty good job, the photo had lots of glare and was at a bad angle and a distance, with small text; it picked out weather, outdoor temperature, CO2/ppm, temp/C, pm2.5/ug/m^3 in the office; Misread "Homelab" as "Household" but got the UPS load and power correctly, Misread "Homelab" again (smaller text this time) as "Hereford" but got the power in W, and misread "Wed May 21" on the weather map as "World May 21". Overall very good considering how poor the input image was. Edit: E4B

It took owning a pixel 9 pro XL for me to go "hmmm..." Because it felt the closest to a physical keyboard to me in a long time. I bought a clicks keyboard case, finally understood what I was missing with mechanical keyboards & the wired headphones has been my jam for a while now.

Testing out the new desktop mode on my Pixel 9 Pro XL. I never used Samsung DeX, so can’t really compare. I will say this is night and day better than just plugging my phone in and mirroring the screen and/or the previous clunky workarounds in developer settingsto try to approximate a desktop mode.

Im unfortunately deeply in debt and can't help with money, but when you get one look for refurbished phones! I got my Pixel 9 Pro XL which is a premium, top of the line phone for 300$ refurbished in really good condition (just some camera scratches). You can get really good deals on high end phones

As someone who was a big OnePlus fan from the 3 era to the 9 Pro, I saw the decline, I moved over when Nexus died, and had used a mixed bag before then. OnePlus was on the decline and it was clear it wouldn't be a contender for much longer here in the UK, especially when they merged OSs with the OPPO (?) OS, and software quality went through the floor. I moved to Pixels and currently have a Pixel 9 Pro XL which I'm looking to change as they destroyed the battery life with the march update and it still hasn't been resolved. The Pixel has been solid otherwise and performance is still excellent, but I can't abide having my phone entering battery saver every day by late afternoon. [...]

As you're working with the OEM, I hope you'll consider a model which will come with either an IPS screen or is compatible with a 3rd party IPS replacement. I bought a Pixel 9 Pro Xl specifically to use with GrapheneOS. Unfortunately, its OLED and my eyes were incompatible. The PWM on the screen was terrible and I had to return it after some headaches. [...]

You plug in a USB-C cable with DP-Alt mode (or whatever phones use) and you have a (4K) display of any size, keyboard and mouse (via the USB hub in the monitor), and webcam, speakers, whatever else that's connected to your monitor/hub/docking station. [...] I currently using Pixel 9 Pro XL (512GiB) and I imagine it's got more compute power than my ageing 2019 XPS 13. [...] It couldn't replace my work-laptop with a 20-core CPU and 64GiB of RAM and ARC GPU, running Ubuntu/Gnome that I can also connect to a couple of monitors, keyboard, mouse, speakers, webcam, and more with a single cable via a docking station; and if I was going to carry the peripherals needed to do this with my phone, when on the go, I'd just carry a laptop, like I do now. [...]

Holyyy yeah that sounds annoying, can't blame you for jumping ship. For what it's worth I've been using a Pixel 9 Pro XL since August of last year and it's been rock solid the whole time

[...] I've actually been on the 2TB AI plan for the past year as I bought a Pixel 9 Pro XL and it came gratis. [...]

[...] I'm one of those people who is affected by PWM on OLED screens. I tried a Pixel 9 Pro XL and it didn't work for me. Have a Razr 2024 which mostly works and that's thanks to some custom PWM settings from Motorola. Will Graphene OS have these custom PWM mitigation settings on 2027 Motorolas?

Same. Purchased Pixel 9 Pro XL, didn't get my year of Gemini or Google One, technical missuport couldn't be bothered circling between all the investigation steps I did and re-did already and tej "fixes" that have been verified ate not fixing anything. "Support" agents couldn't be bothered - this feels like AI trapping me in the tarpit maze to save a few USD on the disk storage and infefence cost, effectively scamming me.

[...] But I'm also quite happy with my Google Pixel 9 Pro XL and I have no reason to change. [...]

[...] I have photos from a recent event taken entirely with phones, and the result mirrors my experience for the past many years. iPhone (11-15 including Pro Max) photos look "normal". [...] Photos taken with Android phones (Pixel 9 Pro XL, recent Oppo or Samsung A series, etc.) look terribly unnatural. [...] Android picture just by looking at the colors on the same display. [...]

Ooh now this is interesting! I have to start following them I guess, been itching to switch since the most recent Android update absolutely destroyed the battery life on my brand new Pixel 9 Pro XL.

[...] I like my Pixels because they can run GOS (and my Pixel 9 Pro XL has a great camera), but I'd love to have a choice.

Any improvements to battery life? I feel like my pixel 8 pro battery is dying a lot faster now. I would like to trade it in for a pixel 9 pro xl, but it's kinda hard/impossible to do in Brazil. I got a good deal from best buy but you need to have a US issued document to trade your phone in, bummer. [...]

I'm using Fennec (a Firefox fork on F-Droid) and a Pixel 9 Pro XL, and it takes around 8 seconds at difficulty 4. Personally, I don't think the UX is that bad since I don't have to do anything. I definitely prefer it to captchas.

I have it on my Pixel 9 Pro XL right now and have had it since the end of January. Worked well so far for me in the country where Tmo typically has had dead spots, if not a little slow.

When I needed a new phone I found switching carriers gave me the best deal. I got my Pixel 9 Pro XL from Mint mobile for $1000 with a $300 rebate and full year of unlimited for $180 so $880+tax all in and no bill for 12 months. Other providers also had deals but this was best for the phone I wanted

Good Lord my battery health is almost perfect on my Pixel 9 Pro XL but I guess having over 200 stupid apps makes is charge slow lol at 93% finally from 82% when I first started posting and my watch is finally at 98% lol

[...] My phone is relatively new (Pixel 9 Pro XL), but my PC is made with mega old parts & re-used hardware. [...]

Part of last night's sunset rainbow after the storms along Interstate 71 South near Grove City. My phone's automatic color balance wasn't having a good time, but this orange hue is about right. This is the 1:1 crop of the main sensor that the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL camera app does at 10x zoom.

Although I've had small ups and downs, I have to say I've achieved unprecedented productivity with my Google Pixel 9 Pro XL. ❤️

[...] I'm using GrapheneOS on my daily driver right now (the Pixel 9 Pro XL) and it's been fantastic

I like mine. I have a pixel 9 pro xl. I bought it through my carrier Mint Mobile, no complaints with their service.

I have never gotten a shot anywhere close to that with my phone, the current one being a Pixel 9 Pro XL. [...]

When I got my Pixel 9 Pro XL, they gave us $800 for a Pixel 6 that was in a drawer and hadn't even been turned on for almost 2 years. 😁

Yes, I understand. The big long lens is pretty much the only thing I keep attached to my real camera these days. For things like landscapes, and even macro shots, I usually like the results from my phone (Pixel 9 pro XL) better.

I use my long lens and "real" camera for wildlife photography. But for just about everything else, I actually prefer my phone (Pixel 9 pro XL)

I have a Sony a7rIV and a Pixel 9 Pro XL. Post-editing there are a few pictures I've taken with my phone that hold up against a camera with a full frame 61MP sensor lol

I toyed with the idea (my daughters all have iPhones and would love to convince me). But then I got a Pixel 9 Pro XL for literally $200 (T-Mobile gave me $600 to trade on an old Pixel 6). I think I'm pretty locked into Google at this point.

I made a big mistake when I bought my new Google Pixel 9 Pro XL, but I just called to correct the issue. [...] Then the customer service guy asked why I didn't get the free ipad10 and free Samsung 7 watch, so I said I better do that. [...]

I got a Pixel 9 Pro XL as my work phone. Way better than my iPhone. Those damn blue bubbles tho

Found a sound-byte online that says: "Hey, Ass-but! [...] My phone has actually creeped me the fuck out with that notification a few times, but I don't care! [...] Google Pixel 9 pro XL. [...]

So I've had to get a new phone, my trusted pixel 6 pro is now a pixel 9 pro XL because I don't like change. But! Having a flat screen is soo much better!

I have the X4 and it fits on the back of my Pixel 9 Pro XL. EDIT: I use a "MagSafe" case.

I tend to like smaller phones as well, but even comparing the Pixel 9 Pro vs Pixel 9 Pro XL used markets, it seems really hard to find non-XL versions. I would totally believe that the XL is a far more popular model, unfortunately for the rest of us.

Got a new Pixel 9 Pro XL so far it operates just like the old one, but I've had it for only a few hours. Let's see how it handles overall in time