When Google first showcased its Pixel’s AI capabilities, it began with some artificial digital camera enhancements on the Pixel 7 Pro. This additionally included some Tensor G2-powered options comparable to Cinematic Blur. It then took issues up a number of notches by introducing AI-enabled results and the power to “magically” take away individuals, objects, and extra with the Pixel 8 Pro. With the Pixel 9 Professional sequence, we are actually going above and past. One cannot solely modify however even create AI-generated content material on the fly (generative AI). It is not simply to do with pictures, however every part from replies to messages, summarising emails and lots extra. AI strikes from what was beforehand a background function to the forefront and makes its means into each app and house you possibly can 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 known as the Tensor G4. The brand new processor vastly improves the earlier one’s means to course of AI duties (extra tokens, the merrier), however not a lot relating to 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
Persevering with with the AI pattern, we now have loads of new options. Other than being omnipresent throughout the telephone’s UI and even your desktop/laptop computer Chrome browser (supplied you may have Google’s Gemini Superior plan), Google’s Gemini AI mannequin permits for brand new options like Add Me (you possibly can add the photographer to the picture), Zoom Improve (zoom in an improve crops of your photographs) and a extra highly effective Magic Editor that may change your entire setting of your picture.
A robust Gemini Stay voice assistant additionally will get duties carried out or suggests options via dwell conversations. And at last, Gemini has gotten good sufficient so that you can substitute it together 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 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 nicely.
The most important one must be the existence of the Pixel 9 Professional XL mannequin. Facet-by-side, it nonetheless feels as huge 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 digital camera setup stays pretty just like the Pixel 8 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 largest 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 8 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 haven’t got the necessary 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 just like the Pixel 8 Professional
Let’s not neglect 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 Pro Max, however this body has a mirror end. The flattened visor-like digital camera module type 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 would not have a chrome end, which simply scratches the older fashions.
Google’s AI gamble relies on how a lot its prospects 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 Stay and extra are very costly (Rs. 1,950 monthly 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’ve got 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 offer a flawless and seamless AI service demo via its Pixel 9 smartphone lineup. This may increasingly or could not persuade customers relating to the usefulness of retaining Google’s bouquet of AI companies and dwell the AI life.
The growing worth 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 now have for assessment, begins from Rs. 1,24,999, stacking it up towards Samsung’s Galaxy S24+ and Galaxy S24 Ultra fashions, which supply superior {hardware} in some areas.
We are going to check out all these AI options and the same old smartphone options like digital camera efficiency, heating, battery life and extra. So, we suggest you keep tuned for our detailed assessment and make an knowledgeable buy, as final yr’s Pixel 8 Professional was not too different from the earlier yr’s Pixel 7 Professional.
