The Pixel 9 series has way better battery life, but it also delivers improvements to charging. One of those improvements is that the Pixel 9 has higher requirements for fast charging, helping you better know if your charger is truly up to speed.

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    15 days ago

    I don’t get it

    Why would you want your battery to change so fast? It gets hot and isn’t great for the battery. I just want all day battery life and then a trickle change overnight. My current phone does that

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      15 days ago

      I’m just waiting for capacitors to replace batteries. I read a really promising article recently and it said they figured out how to make a capacitor hold more energy much longer which means when that comes to market leaving your phone charging overnight will be a thing of the past.

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        15 days ago

        Capacitors replacing batteries like this, similar to nuclear fusion power, is always only X years away.