Indeed, it is about Premium Phones by Google. Barely had any considerable effort gone into propelling Google Pixel phones into any kind of reputation under photography, furnishing closeness in software experience with improved performance on the AI side. The last couple of months, how-ever, has seen something close to that rumored left out on the Google Pixel 6 Pro and Pixel 7 Pro, now resurfacing with the yet-to-be-announced Pixel 8 series.
What Is This Feature, Anyway?
It is mostly the display output over USB-C, or DisplayPort over USB-C built-in, with the idea that users will be using such devices connected to their monitors because they constitute a desktop experience as a whole. Such a mobile productivity feature would definitely have come in handy for users such as those on the Samsung DeX or the Motorola Ready For.
But both of these devices, somehow, seem interesting because they have the hardware support for it, whereas the company just turned it off via software on Pixel 6 Pro and Pixel 7 Pro.
Then Why Block It With Such Hardware Powers?
Analogous to this was the default behavior with which the company had then set for DisplayPort Alternate Mode from the Tensor chipset-versioned Pixel 6 and 7 series, an obvious invitation to be a further limitation to the Pixel 8. Or just reserving the same to unveil at a later date alongside a desktop experience when the next Android version is released
Google Pixel User Reviews
And the Pixel-ing community has not been shy in expressing as loudly as possible every single grievance under the comment section in threads under XDA and Reddit. Apparently, this user bloc does feel that purposely crippled certain features in older models just to sell the newer ones, "The flagship phone by Google should have it. Such a basic productivity feature."
Chairman's Note
Such sources have always been biased about this kind of claim; they claim that Android 15 beta contains some snippets mentioning Display Output. It could allow them somehow in the Pixel 6 Pro and 7 Pro. But No. Never Going to Happen: such grand claims are never realized-whatever's out there becomes white noise without an official statement.
Extraordinaires, kings and queens in their own right; amongst their very many features, Pixel 6 Pro and 7 Pro probably disappointed most on one score-the absence of Display Output-not really crying shame if in the future Google enables this through software update to make the phones really productive and entirely future-proof.
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