“except 9a”
wait what? I would expect they use the same modem if not a more efficient modem than the previous a series
hmmm? 
They mentioned they have an 8a. The modem was significantly improved with the 8 series of devices and again with the 9 series. I also never claimed that the modem was efficient using 4g, only that it is significantly more efficient on 4g than 5g.
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9a should be, unfortunately, using the 5300 modem in P8 series, rather than 5400 used in P9 series.
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I heard that the Pixel 10 will have the SoC manufactured by TSMC instead of Samsung but for some reason (cheaper?) they will use a Mediatek modem. Is that going to be good or bad?
I disabled 5G but the battery life is still very bad unless I’m home all day where I have Wifi.
So in practice, apart from changing a few settings, I don’t see much else to do.
Can an update improve things?
I don’t see how this is bad at all, in fact TSMC is actually the industry standard and lead for chip manufacturing. They handle efficiency better than Samsung for one thing (I mean look at the infamous Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 vs 8+ Gen 1, Qualcomm tried to use Samsung node on the 8 Gen 1 only to end up having worse heat, worse battery life etc. they ended up making the 8+ Gen 1 which moved to TSMC and Was way, way better than the 8 Gen 1).
as for the Mediatek modem, it will be hardened afaik.
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nope in the end it’s still the modem on your phone.
Yes, TSMC is surely good news, I was more wondering about Mediatek for the modem. Sounds to me like they’re going with the cheaper option instead having a TSMC-made modem.
A physical mod with antennae array with much higher gain, maybe.
But thats difficult and EMF certification would definitely be void.
MediaTek is a fabless company so only design chips they don’t fabricate them. TSCM is the opposite, they manufacture chips designed by other companies. Most advanced chips, like MediaTeks flagship modems are fabricated by TSCM. Previously they were using a Samsung designed modem which was also manufactured by Samsung.
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yep this and feel free to correct me if im wrong on that the mediatek modem would be hardened by Google…
One concern I have with MTK is their software support / quality of their firmware.
I am not concerned with their performance and energy efficience, though.
MTK could be quite aggressive when it comes to picking which lithography to produce their modem, N4C maybe?
Once again I heard that Google is actually going to harden the modem meaning it will be as secure as it gets with that.
I could have heard wrong of course but I guess it will reveal (soon?) when it comes out.
There is no reason to believe Google wouldn’t improve and harden the firmware as they did with the Samsung modem used in the Pixel 9 series. I also don’t believe Google would have selected a modem of unacceptably low quality either hardware and firmware wise.
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Ah thanks for clarifying. I honestly thought I was crazy, Like Google would do it right? It’s not like they would skip it? Is what I was thinking at least.
Then again maybe we’ll just have to see when it comes out right?