> The external monitor I think was capped to 1920x1080 (if connected to a 1440P display a huge chunk was just static)
That happened to me with the PP, but I can reliably use a 1440P monitor with the PPP. Not sure if it's the phone, or the fact that I added a power cord to the phone while it was connected. I can't remember if I did that with the PP.
EDIT: Scratch that. It's because I used the official dock with the PP, and for the PPP I used one I got on Amazon.
The official dock is docked (:P) to 1080P.[1]
I wonder how it happened that the de-facto standard here is for the protocol going over USB-C to be DisplayPort, but for the hardware connection to be HDMI, and so leading to docks needed to be spec'ed to the resolution you want instead of being passive.
The answer is boring and annoying, they almost certainly want it to work with TVs and cheap monitors both of which commonly only have HDMI inputs. It has been my experience that you typically have to pay more for a USB-C dock with displayport outputs, even though they don't have the chip just cause of economies of scale.
That happened to me with the PP, but I can reliably use a 1440P monitor with the PPP. Not sure if it's the phone, or the fact that I added a power cord to the phone while it was connected. I can't remember if I did that with the PP.
EDIT: Scratch that. It's because I used the official dock with the PP, and for the PPP I used one I got on Amazon.
The official dock is docked (:P) to 1080P.[1]
I wonder how it happened that the de-facto standard here is for the protocol going over USB-C to be DisplayPort, but for the hardware connection to be HDMI, and so leading to docks needed to be spec'ed to the resolution you want instead of being passive.
[1] https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pro-usb-c-docking-bar/