The Pixel 10 series was unveiled on August 20 and, from the general design point of view, it seems that little has changed compared to the Pixel 9 series. The basic pixel 10 receives an additional camera at the rear, but that’s about it. That said, some users of the Pixel 10 Pro XL (Buy on Amazon) have noticed audio recording problems when making videos. It turns out that Google has made a small design change with the Pixel 10 Pro XL which ended up causing the problem.
As Artem Russakovskii, from Android Police notes, their Pixel 10 Pro XL showed some audio irregularities when recording videos. By discussing with Google employees, they discovered that the speaker and the microphone at the bottom of the Pixel 10 Pro XL were interverted, compared to the Pixel 9 Pro XL. Google did this to make sure that the sound was not blocked or suffocated during games in landscape mode. However, this led to the microphone was blocked or partially covered when recording videos in landscape mode, hence audio problems.
A simple solution would be to pay more attention to the position of the hands when recording videos in landscape mode. Another solution would be to rotate the 180 -degree phone so that the microphone is not covered by the palm of the hand. However, as Artem pointed out, it would be quite annoying for right -handers.
The exchange of the speaker and the microphone is not a big deal and is not important enough to divert customers from the Pixel 10 Pro XL. This is not the only problem in this phone, because the Tensor G5 which feeds the whole range showed disappointing performance all at the GPU level. That said, it has recently been reported that there could be a simple fix with an update of the pilot that could release the full potential of the chip. In addition, this year, phones are much easier to dismantle and repairing it is therefore an undeniable advantage.
