I still love my Pixel 8 but this annoying issue makes me want to upgrade to the Pixel 9

Robert Triggs / Android Authority When the Pixel 8 was first announced, it was the most excited I’d been about a Google phone in quite some time. After a brief defection to the dark side (i.e., the iPhone 13), I was more than ready to come back into the Android fold. I was enticed by the more compact size, more comfortable rounded corners, and higher refresh rate screen compared to the last couple of Pixels. I was also hopeful that Google had fixed my main gripe from the Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 — the inconsistent fingerprint scanner. Prior to the big design refresh that came with the Pixel 6, we were blessed with excellent rear-mounted fingerprint sensors on both Pixel and Nexus phones (ignoring the Pixel 4’s short-lived face ID experiment). Along with the now iconic horizontal camera bar, the Pixel 6 also introduced the series’ first under-display fingerprint reader. Even though Google was slower to jump on this feature than other manufacturers, it still failed to live up to the hype. I ... Read full article.