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TL;DR
- Google has quietly enabled 5G assist for Pixel telephones in seven new nations.
- Pixel handsets aren’t at the moment bought in these new markets, although.
One of many strangest issues about Google Pixel telephones just like the Pixel 8 collection is that they don’t assist 5G, VoLTE, or Wi-Fi calling in unsupported nations. Now, it seems to be like Google is enabling 5G assist in additional markets.
9to5Google noticed an up to date Google Pixel 5G web page, confirming that Pixels now assist 5G connectivity in seven new nations. These markets are Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lichtenstein, and Slovakia. This brings the full listing of supported markets to 38.
It’s additionally attention-grabbing to notice that Google doesn’t promote its current Pixel telephones (Pixel 8 collection, Pixel 7a) in any of those new markets. We’re guessing this could possibly be an indication of what to anticipate from Google when it comes to new Pixel markets. Then once more, nations like New Zealand and Romania have been on this listing for some time and don’t appear to be official Pixel markets.
It’s additionally attainable that Google is increasing assist in these locales for vacationers or as a result of its personal information signifies that there are a great deal of folks shopping for Pixels by way of unofficial means in these nations.
Both method, Google’s 5G availability map (seen above) continues to be trying extraordinarily barebones, with South America and Africa excluded fully. So if Google is bringing 5G assist to new nations in anticipation of official Pixel gross sales, they’re not coming to those continents.
In any occasion, we hope Google works laborious to carry 5G assist, VoLTE capabilities, and Wi-Fi calling to extra markets, even when they’re not formally supported. This is likely one of the largest points with importing a Pixel cellphone in comparison with different manufacturers, though it’s attainable to activate VoLTE and 5G with workarounds.
