Google protects it this way without you knowing it

It came out last week that the Pixel 7a’s chip wasn’t as good as thought, or at least not on par with the rest of the Pixel 7 series. Even so, that’s right now. one of the best android phones that can be bought in the Spanish market. There is one important point that has been discovered which relates to keeping the hardware of the phone in the best possible condition.

The Pixel 7a was launched at Google I/O 2023 held in May this year with some improvements like a screen refresh rate that hits 90Hz. of the Galaxy S23 Ultra or the 144 Hz of the Motorola Razr 40 Ultra, is a more important for a mobile

which in Europe has a price of 509 dollars.

In any case, the Pixel 7a, as far as we know now, it would not work as it should on sunny days or with high temperatures as maintained by a user of the social network Reddit. Apparently the 90Hz refresh rate drops to 60Hz on sunny days, returning to the original when you put the phone in the shade.

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That is to say, there is a correlation between sun exposure and reduced frequency

Pixel 7a screen refresh rate. In these days of high temperatures plaguing Europe, mobile phones are getting too hot —In fact, this series of recommendations can be applied to cool the mobile— and the Pixel 7a would apply an internal thermal throttling mechanism. The funny thing is that the user claims that the Pixel 7a in hand is not hot, so he misses the application of this measure even more.

It should be very clear as shown android fontWhat can the pixel 7a be used in high temperature conditions

or on a sunny day. Refresh rate can be forced to 90Hz from developer options in settings etc. enable ‘Force maximum refresh rate’ feature. You can also use the search in the settings to quickly access this mod. All you have to do is repeatedly click on “build number” in the information in the “about phone” section to bring up the developer options.

However, we do not know that this protection put in place by Google in the Pixel 7a has something to do with the lower performance version of the Tensor G2 chip used in this mobile. According to Kamila Wojciecshowska, this could influence the overheating of the mobile compared to the other two Pixel 7 when exposed to the sun.