Not all USB-C are equal. They can add or remove features as they please
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Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 hours agoYeah, I have a pixel 7 and was disappointed on vacation to learn that its USB-C port can’t do video when I wanted to plug it into a hotel room TV.
I don’t get why this is a Pixel thing at all and not an Android thing though. Shouldn’t any Android OS device that can do full video output over USB-C be able to do this?
criticon@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Right but I’m specifically referring to devices where their USB-C port is capable of full video out.
BladeFederation@piefed.social 2 hours ago
It’s supposed to be for Android 16 kn general once the feature is fully baked
aquovie@lemmy.cafe 3 hours ago
Video out is frustratingly uncommon. Samsung, some Sony’s, and only very recently Pixels. Google was vocally against video out for a long time. And SD cards (gotta pay for drive). You were expected to roll the dice with whether Chromecast works with a random TV and wifi combination.
Pixels were popular for two reasons: the camera and “basic black rectangle” device (RIP Nexus).
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Yeah, Chromecast has been kind of a disaster for Google imho, in that it never got widespread adoption in TVs. If they’d pushed an open standard they might’ve been able to get that over the finish-line and get buy-in from 3rd parties. But instead every smart TV and smart phone has its own video streaming approach, it seems.
mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
The LG V20 had it all, still miss daily driving that phone
Ulrich@feddit.org 22 minutes ago
It will eventually. Pixels are usually the first ones to get everything because they are first-party devices.