When Google first showcased its Pixel’s AI capabilities, it began with some artificial digicam enhancements on the Pixel 7 Professional. This additionally included some Tensor G2-powered options reminiscent of Cinematic Blur. It then took issues up a number of notches by introducing AI-enabled results and the flexibility to “magically” take away folks, objects, and extra with the Pixel 8 Professional. With the Pixel 9 Professional collection, we are actually 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 little thing from replies to messages, summarising emails and many extra. AI strikes from what was beforehand a background function to the forefront and makes its approach into each app and house you’ll be able to think about.
Google wants higher {hardware} to tug off a few of these new on- and off-device AI tips. Enter this yr’s new slice of Google silicon known as the Tensor G4. The brand new processor vastly improves the earlier one’s skill 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 8 Professional
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Persevering with with the AI pattern, we now have loads of new options. Other than being omnipresent throughout the cellphone’s UI and even your desktop/laptop computer Chrome browser (offered you’ve Google’s Gemini Superior plan), Google’s Gemini AI mannequin permits for brand spanking new options like Add Me (you’ll be able to add the photographer to the picture), Zoom Improve (zoom in an improve crops of your images) and a extra highly effective Magic Editor that may change your complete setting of your picture.
A strong Gemini Reside voice assistant additionally will get duties accomplished or suggests options by means of dwell conversations. And at last, 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 bear in mind what’s in your screenshots folder. The all-new Pixel Studio is an AI picture technology instrument 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
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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. Aspect-by-side, it nonetheless feels as massive as a Pixel 7/8 Professional, however Google’s engineers one way or the other managed to slot in a barely greater, 6.8-inch LTPO OLED show in the identical footprint.
The digicam setup stays pretty just like the Pixel 8 Professional this cellphone replaces. There is a 50-megapixel major digicam, a 48-megapixel periscope digicam (5X optical zoom) and a barely improved 48-megapixel ultra-wide digicam this yr. The selfie digicam has gotten the largest improve in years, with a 42-megapixel digicam, 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 8 Professional. Charging speeds have improved considerably with the brand new cellphone providing 37W wired charging. Wi-fi charging has been upgraded to the quicker Qi2 customary, however the Pixels do not have the required magnets within the rear panel to seize onto the brand new magnetic Qi2 chargers for excellent worry-free alignment.
The Pixel 9 Professional XL’s rear cameras stay just like the Pixel 8 Professional
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Let’s not overlook that brand-new design language. It feels refreshing even over final yr’s Pixel 8 Professional fashions. The 9 Professional XL retains the rounded corners and the flat show of the Pixel 8 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 digicam module sort of jogs my memory of the outdated Huawei Nexus 6P (2015), nevertheless it’s laid on a flat rear panel. This makes the cellphone seem slim from afar, however you shortly lose that impression when you maintain it. The digicam module protrudes fairly a bit, and for as soon as, it would not have a chrome end, which simply scratches the older fashions.
Google’s AI gamble is dependent upon how a lot its prospects are prepared to make use of these options. The opposite aspect of this story additionally banks on the truth that Gemini Superior AI options like Google Reside and extra are very costly (Rs. 1,950 per 30 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. Now we have but to listen to how a lot Apple Intelligence will price customers.
With that stated, in that first free yr, it is as much as Google to supply a flawless and seamless AI service demo by means of its Pixel 9 smartphone lineup. This will likely or could not persuade customers in relation to the usefulness of retaining Google’s bouquet of AI companies and dwell the AI life.
The growing value tags of Google’s Pixel lineup is one other downside in itself. Google’s Pixel 9 Professional now begins at Rs. 1,09,999 whereas the Pixel 9 Professional XL, which we now have for overview, begins from Rs. 1,24,999, stacking it up towards Samsung’s Galaxy S24+ and Galaxy S24 Extremely fashions, which supply superior {hardware} in some areas.
We’ll check out all these AI options and the standard smartphone options like digicam efficiency, heating, battery life and extra. So, we suggest you keep tuned for our detailed overview and make an knowledgeable buy, as final yr’s Pixel 8 Professional was not too completely different from the earlier yr’s Pixel 7 Professional.
