When Google first showcased its Pixel’s AI capabilities, it began with some artificial digital camera enhancements on the Pixel 7 Professional. This additionally included some Tensor G2-powered options akin to Cinematic Blur. It then took issues up a number of notches by introducing AI-enabled results and the flexibility to “magically” take away individuals, objects, and extra with the Pixel Eight Professional. With the Pixel 9 Professional collection, we at the moment are going above and past. One can’t solely modify however even create AI-generated content material on the fly (generative AI). It is not simply to do with photographs, however every thing from replies to messages, summarising emails and many extra. AI strikes from what was beforehand a background position to the forefront and makes its method into each app and area you’ll be able to think about.
Google wants higher {hardware} to tug off a few of these new on- and off-device AI methods. Enter this yr’s new slice of Google silicon referred to as the Tensor G4. The brand new processor vastly improves the earlier one’s capacity to course of AI duties (extra tokens, the merrier), however not a lot concerning uncooked energy. We even have 16GB of RAM and loads of storage (256 or 512GB in India).
The Google Pixel 9 Professional XL manages to squeeze in a barely bigger show than the Pixel Eight Professional
Persevering with with the AI pattern, we have now loads of new options. Aside from being omnipresent throughout the telephone’s UI and even your desktop/laptop computer Chrome browser (supplied you might have Google’s Gemini Superior plan), Google’s Gemini AI mannequin permits for brand new options like Add Me (you’ll be able to add the photographer to the photograph), Zoom Improve (zoom in an improve crops of your photographs) and a extra highly effective Magic Editor that may change all the setting of your photograph.
A robust Gemini Dwell voice assistant additionally will get duties accomplished or suggests options by stay conversations. And eventually, Gemini has gotten good sufficient so that you can substitute it along with your trusty Google Assistant. A brand new Pixel Screenshots app claims to deal with and keep in mind what’s in your screenshots folder. The all-new Pixel Studio is an AI picture era device packaged in a separate app. There’s additionally Automobile Crash Detection, which contacts emergency companies within the occasion of an accident.
The Google Pixel 9 Professional XL has an ultra-wideband chip
AI bits apart, there are enhancements on the {hardware} entrance as effectively.
The most important one needs to be the existence of the Pixel 9 Professional XL mannequin. Facet-by-side, it nonetheless feels as huge as a Pixel 7/Eight Professional, however Google’s engineers by some means managed to slot in a barely larger, 6.8-inch LTPO OLED show in the identical footprint.
The digital camera setup stays pretty much like the Pixel Eight Professional this telephone replaces. There is a 50-megapixel main digital camera, a 48-megapixel periscope digital camera (5X optical zoom) and a barely improved 48-megapixel ultra-wide digital camera this yr. The selfie digital camera has gotten the most important improve in years, with a 42-megapixel digital camera, which additionally has autofocus (just like the earlier mannequin).
The battery additionally grows by just a bit. There is a 5,060mAh battery versus the 5,050mAh battery within the Pixel Eight Professional. Charging speeds have improved considerably with the brand new telephone providing 37W wired charging. Wi-fi charging has been upgraded to the sooner Qi2 customary, however the Pixels do not have the vital magnets within the rear panel to seize onto the brand new magnetic Qi2 chargers for good worry-free alignment.
The Pixel 9 Professional XL’s rear cameras stay much like the Pixel Eight Professional
Let’s not overlook that brand-new design language. It feels refreshing even over final yr’s Pixel Eight Professional fashions. The 9 Professional XL retains the rounded corners and the flat show of the Pixel Eight Professional however goes with flat sides with bevelled edges. This jogs my memory of Apple’s iPhone 15 Professional Max, however this body has a mirror end. The flattened visor-like digital camera module sort of jogs my memory of the previous Huawei Nexus 6P (2015), however it’s laid on a flat rear panel. This makes the telephone seem slim from afar, however you rapidly lose that impression when you maintain it. The digital camera module protrudes fairly a bit, and for as soon as, it does not have a chrome end, which simply scratches the older fashions.
Google’s AI gamble relies on how a lot its clients are keen to make use of these options. The opposite facet of this story additionally banks on the truth that Gemini Superior AI options like Google Dwell and extra are very costly (Rs. 1,950 per thirty days with a 2TB Google One plan). Because of this not everybody will subscribe to a service they won’t use after the one-year free trial ends. We now have but to listen to how a lot Apple Intelligence will value customers.
With that mentioned, in that first free yr, it is as much as Google to offer a flawless and seamless AI service demo by its Pixel 9 smartphone lineup. This may occasionally or could not persuade customers with regards to the usefulness of retaining Google’s bouquet of AI companies and stay the AI life.
The rising value tags of Google’s Pixel lineup is one other drawback in itself. Google’s Pixel 9 Professional now begins at Rs. 1,09,999 whereas the Pixel 9 Professional XL, which we have now for evaluate, begins from Rs. 1,24,999, stacking it up in opposition to Samsung’s Galaxy S24+ and Galaxy S24 Extremely fashions, which supply superior {hardware} in some areas.
We’ll take a look at out all these AI options and the standard smartphone options like digital camera efficiency, heating, battery life and extra. So, we advocate you keep tuned for our detailed evaluate and make an knowledgeable buy, as final yr’s Pixel Eight Professional was not too completely different from the earlier yr’s Pixel 7 Professional.
