At the end of April 2022, Google officially released the first beta version of Android 13. According to the relevant information that has been made public, this version has greatly improved stability compared with the previous developer preview, and has also introduced new and more elaborate permission management.
Obviously, these seem like good changes. But at the same time, a new feature in Android 13 Beta1 has caused us to live in turmoil.
In simple terms, this is actually a simple "resolution switching" option, which will allow Pixel 6 Pro users to "downgrade" the default display resolution of the screen from the native QHD+ to FHD+, thus achieving the purpose of "saving power and improving battery life".
At first glance, this approach seems to be nothing special, after all, most mobile phone manufacturers have been widely used for 2K screen models many years ago. Even many flagship models that are obviously equipped with 2K screens or 3K screens, the default in the factory settings is 1080P resolution, and the user has to manually switch to the high resolution.
But you know, this time the situation is a little different, because this is a change made by Google on the Android system. And in the previous version of the Android system, Google did not equip the Pixel series models with the "resolution reduction" function, so now it is added, which is obviously worthy of attention.
This may mean that Google used to hope that consumers would "buy a 2K screen and enjoy the ultra-high resolution", but their current actions represent that they have also bowed to the "industry practice". It may even be that to some extent, it is admitted in disguise that at least in the current system and application environment, the "2K screen" may not be so practical, and it will significantly increase power consumption.
Further, if even Google allows the "2K screen" model to run at a reduced resolution in the native system, this may be a very bad message to developers. That is, they do not need to do special interface HD material adaptation for ultra-high-resolution models, nor do they need to do more serious power consumption tuning for this part of the model.
To be honest, we sanyi life has always held a great enthusiasm for advanced display technologies such as 2K screen, 4K screen, 240Hz ultra-high brush, ultra-bright AMOLED and so on mobile phones. Because of this, when the "2K screen" in the market in 2022 begins to have more and more new machines equipped, this would have been quite gratifying to us.
The world's first 2K screen model, released in December 2013 vivo XPlay 3S
However, google now in Android 13 Beta1 to make this change, I have to say that it is pouring cold water on us. You know, the mobile phone industry has actually appeared as early as 2013 2K screen models.
The reason why this configuration has not been popularized, in the early years, it can be said that it is because of poor performance and high resolution, but for today's models, 2K screen has no performance pressure to speak of, more or lack of corresponding high-quality application adaptation, it is difficult to open a particularly obvious gap with 1080P in experience.
But now with the "official rot" of Google, the real popularity of 2K and even 4K high-resolution screens in the mobile phone industry may have to wait for many more years.
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