📱 Google Pixel 9 Pro teased in new official video
📸 Its camera shifts the “visor” look to a new pill-shaped design
✨ Gemini AI is actually the main topic of this teaser video
📆 The Pixel 9 will launch on August 13 alongside the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold
We did a report on the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold being teased this week in the wake of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 but it’s worth noting that there’s also a very similar clip of the Google Pixel 9 Pro on YouTube. And, yes, it reveals new details.
Google’s video focuses on the Gemini AI and its capabilities, but it also briefly shows off the Google Pixel 9 Pro’s camera for the first time. It replaces the wider camera visor that was found in the Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, Google Pixel 7 and 7 ProAnd Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro. It was postponed to the cheapest Google Pixel 7a And Pixel 8a.
How has it changed? The Google Pixel 9 Pro sports a more compact camera module with a pill-shaped design. It appears to have the same number of cameras – three – for wide-angle, ultra-wide-angle, and telephoto photography and video.
Of course, given the design change after three years, we could be looking at a spec upgrade over the standard 50MP camera, whether that’s a new sensor or simple tweaks to Google’s famed camera post-processing software.
The Shortcut will be reporting live from the Google Pixel 9 Pro launch event on August 13. We’ll be sure to dedicate as much time to testing that phone as we do to the Google Pixel 9 Pro Foldeven though foldable phones are new and exciting. Foldables are expensive and not suitable for all consumers in 2024 – I get it.
Based on the Pixel line’s track record, I can already tell you about the potential pros and cons of the Pixel 9 Pro, so you don’t have to wait for Google’s event. This should help you decide whether to buy the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra or wait until you see Apple’s iPhone 16These will be the biggest rivals of the Google Pixel 9 Pro.
The cameras have been the Google Pixel’s strong point since I started testing them (and the Google Nexus phone before that). The addition of AI over the last year has brought features like Best Take (face swapping) and Magic Editor (Photoshop-like magic built into Google Photos). And these are the reasons why you should buy a Google Pixel phone over its competitors, Samsung and Apple.
Hopefully the focus on AI means Google has something new to announce in terms of AI-powered generative photo and video editing using Gemini, as Samsung starts to catch up with its Galaxy AI photo editing.
What Google needs to improve in its Pixel lineup is its chipset. It’s fine for AI tasks right now, but it’s in gaming where it lags, even behind cheaper Android phones that use Qualcomm’s processor. Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 So the company needs to improve the capabilities of the Google Tensor G4 chipset, especially since the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is set to be announced in October.
We’ll have a full review of the Google Pixel 9 Pro once it launches after the August 13 event. Google launch event ahead of Apple’s iPhone 16 event, and no one saw this news coming, so we may be in for a few surprises.