PSA: Pixel 9 Professional Fold doesn’t help a key Pixel accent

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Not too many Pixel 9 Professional Fold consumers learn a help doc earlier than pre-ordering the cellphone

To assist the Pixel 9 Professional Fold work with third-party wi-fi chargers, Google printed this diagram displaying the placement of the coils within the system. | Picture credit-Google

Had any individual pre-ordering the Pixel 9 Professional Fold learn the help doc previous to putting his order, he would have discovered an entire part titled “Wi-fi charging for Pixel 9 Professional Fold.” The very first line within the part states: “Vital: Pixel 9 Professional Fold does not help the Pixel Stand but it surely helps many different wi-fi chargers.” Within the doc, Google explains the explanation why the Pixel 9 Professional Fold does not work with the Pixel Stand 2.

The charging coils contained in the system aren’t completely centered as they’re on earlier Pixel fashions. Google says “This would possibly make it troublesome so that you can cost your cellphone wirelessly.”

Within the help doc, Google consists of a picture of the again of the Pixel 9 Professional Fold displaying the position of the  coils in order that homeowners of the system may line up the system with third-party wi-fi charging stands and pads that work higher with the foldable.

What Google ought to have finished to alert consumers of the most recent foldable Pixel

The Pixel 9 Professional Fold carries a 4650mAh battery and prices as quick as 21W with a wired charger whereas it prices wirelessly at 7.5W. Had Google been capable of enable the Pixel 9 Professional Fold to work with the Pixel Stand 2, customers may have charged the foldable at a sooner wi-fi charging pace. However issues could not be labored out forcing homeowners of the brand new foldable to depend on slower third-party wi-fi chargers. That may’t be blamed on Google. 

What’s Google’s fault is the corporate’s incapacity to let customers know that the Pixel 9 Professional Fold does not help the Pixel Stand 2 by pointing it out within the Google Retailer and never simply in a help doc that the majority customers by no means learn.