Samsung most likely does this so the Snapdragon 845 has an easier time by pushing
around less pixels than if the phone were operating at 1440p.
Not exact matches
The tablet offers a 1920 x 1080
pixel display, weighs a shade
less than a kilo, and is built
around an Intel Core i5 chip, 4 GB of RAM, and 128 GB of internal storage.
Phase Detection Auto Focus: This time
around, the handset maker has gone for a 12 Megapixels snapper on the back with bigger
pixels and
lesser aperture.
Samsung is switching to a 4:3 aspect ratio for the displays this time
around (with a resolution of 2048 × 1536
pixels), and if you think watching videos will be a
lesser experience as a result, you would be right.
So for 36 % more money you get double amount of display
pixels, more than double storage and display area,
less than double size and weight to carry
around and native PDF support to boot.
It once again looks
less natural than the
Pixel's, owing to its greater reliance on artificial sharpening, but then it is in fact much sharper all
around.
In a slightly
less controversial subject, we fully expect to see the end of the smaller
Pixel phone with chunky bezels
around the screen, and instead expect that Google will fully embrace the bezel-
less revolution in the smaller model — much the same as the
Pixel 2 XL.
Google announced its latest flagship smartphones, the Google
Pixel and
Pixel XL
less than a day ago, and retailers
around the world have listed the devices on their websites gearing up for pre-orders.
While the 720p screen gives the MediaTek - made CPU and Mali GPU
less pixels to push
around, games run rather inconsistently on the Xperia L1.
The trademark glass panel
around the back takes up
less room than last year's
Pixels, and now has curved edges to more smoothly roll up into the sides.