Google Dropping Pixel 4's 4K 60FPS Video Recording Capability, A Last Minute Decision

Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are the search engine giant’s latest flagship devices packed with amazing photography features. However, these latest handsets could not offer what most premium smartphones in the market provides—4K 60 FPS video recording. But, a new report claims that both Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL initially have this feature but was removed before the devices were officially released to the consumers.

XDA’s Mishaal Rahman recently shared that he discovered a code that reveals that Google has initially enabled 4K 60FPS video shooting on Google Pixel 4 and Google Pixel 4 XL. But, the changes were eventually discarded. The recent discovery only means that the hardware of Google’s latest flagship devices is capable of shooting 4K videos at 60 FPS.

This also indicates that Google could still seed software to activate the 4k 60FPS video shooting feature on both Google Pixel 4 and Google Pixel 4 XL. It is also possible that the feature was removed because Google was not satisfied with the result of the video quality. It could also be that the feature causes the device to heat up at the testing stage.

Earlier Google stated that Google Pixel 4’s video recording is limited to only 4K30FPS because activating the 60 FPS option will cause almost half a gigabyte of storage to be used up for each minute. Because the flagship device only comes with a base storage model of 64 GB and can go as high as 128 GB, the internal memory, with 4K 60FPS video, would have been easily used up. Additionally, the device has no memory card slot, and Google no longer provides free original-quality storage from media on Google Photos.

It is possible that Google thinks the majority of the users would still prefer the 1080p recording. So, instead of introducing the 4K 60FPS, it focused its efforts on enhancing this video mode. The search engine giant has yet to comment on this latest claim about the video shooting feature of both Google Pixel 4 and Google Pixel 4 XL.