August was a comparatively sleepy month for tech information — now not! Now that Google scooted up its annual October Pixel occasion by two months, the tech world is abubble, going over all the things execs introduced from Mountain View, California on the Made By Google keynote on Tuesday.
The Pixel 9 launch occasion got here with enthusiastic introductions for all of the {hardware} we expected, together with the brand new Pixel 9 and its sizable camera bump. The Pixel 9 Professional and the bigger Pixel 9 Professional XL made their official debut, too, and the brand new foldable, the Pixel 9 Professional Fold, does certainly measure simply 0.4 inches thick. The brand new Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Buds Professional 2 have now been revealed, as had been loads of software program options, principally within the type of Gemini integrations with the newest Android 15.0 working system. For the play-by-play, you’ll be able to take a look at our liveblog or take a look at Google’s stream. When you simply need the highlights, this is all the things introduced on the 2024’s Made by Google Pixel occasion.
Google Pixel 9
What you first discover about Google’s latest Pixel 9 is the redesigned look. The digicam band has been changed with rectangular oval that stands proud from a slab that is a couple of tenth of an inch thinner than the Pixel 8. The display dimension has bumped again as much as 6.3 inches, after dipping to six.2 inches on the Pixel 8, and is roofed in Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2. It is received a refined glass again with satin metallic finishes on the body and cameras.
Talking of cameras, there’s the identical quantity as final 12 months (two within the again, one within the entrance) however the earlier era’s 12 MP ultrawide lens has been changed with a 48 MP ultrawide lens. The opposite two cameras have the identical specs, besides the entrance cam now has autofocus for higher selfies. To benefit from these fancy sensors, new AI images enhancements like Add Me and Reimagine be a part of the present Magic Editor, Night time Sight and Greatest Take options.
The Pixel 9 homes the identical Tensor G4 chip as its costlier siblings and now comes with 12GB of reminiscence, eliminating the choice of an 8GB mannequin. That further RAM will assist deal with the various Gemini integrations coming commonplace in Android 15. Urgent and holding the facility button will overlay the assistant on no matter you are doing on-screen and might reply questions, pull particulars from different apps, and producing contextualized suggestions primarily based on photographs you are taking.
The Pixel 9 comes with 7 years of OS and safety updates and is accessible in Obsidian, Porcelain, Wintergreen, and Peony. Its begins at $799 for 128GB of storage.
Google Pixel 9 Professional and Pixel 9 Professional XL
These not content material with a standard-issue cellphone can go for the Pixel 9 Pro or the Pixel 9 Pro XL instead. Notably this 12 months, the Professional moniker does not essentially imply greater; the Pixel 9 Professional is similar dimension because the common Pixel 9, each with 6.3-inch screens. Google created a brand new class in its lineup with the Pixel 9 Professional XL — a cellphone with the the identical basic specs because the Professional mannequin however with a bigger, 6.8-inch show and a 5,060 mAh battery (versus the 4,700 mAh battery on the smaller model).
All three Pixel 9 fashions use the identical Google Tensor G4 processor, however the two Professional telephones have 16GB of RAM available to execute AI tips and some other process you would possibly demand from them. You may get both cellphone with 128GB of storage or a full terabyte. The Professional fashions additionally pack a further 48 MP telephoto lens within the again and a heftier 42 MP selfie digicam up entrance.
Each include a 12 months’s subscription to the Google One AI Premium Plan which helps you to entry the entire tips Gemini can do — after the free trial, you may have to pay $20 month-to-month (the plan additionally comes with 2TB of storage).
The Pixel 9 Professional begins at $999 and the Pixel 9 Professional XL begins at $1,099. Each are available the identical 4 colours: Obsidian, Porcelain, Hazel and Rose Quartz, and embrace a promised seven years of safety and options updates. Like all the things introduced on the occasion, the telephones are actually open to preorders.
Google Pixel 9 Professional Fold
We now formally know that Google’s second foldable phone will not be known as the Pixel Fold 2, however somewhat the Pixel 9 Professional Fold. To go together with the enlarged title, there is a greater, eight-inch interior display, making it the most important on any cellphone on the market. The outer display is bigger too, measuring 6.3 inches, up from 5.8 inches final 12 months. Google claims the inside display is 80 % brighter than its predecessor and now maxes out at 2,700 nits.
A persistent grievance with foldables is how heavy and hulking they’ll really feel. Google hopes just a few design tweaks will assist with that. The Pixel 9 Professional Fold now measures simply 0.4 inches when closed, making it the thinnest foldable in the marketplace (so long as you do not depend the sizable digicam bump) and at 257g it is about 25 grams lighter than the Pixel Fold.
It homes Google’s Tensor G4 chip, comes commonplace with 16GB of RAM and gives your selection of 256GB or 512GB of storage. Like each piece of 2024 Pixel {hardware}, The 9 Professional Fold is tailor-made round Google’s Gemini AI contrivances. Urgent the facility button brings up the assistant, which you need to use in break up display on the foldable. The cellphone additionally comes with a 12 months of the One AI Premium plan, which jumps to $20 per thirty days afterwards.
The three exterior cameras embrace a large, ultrawide and telephoto lens with 5x optical zoom and as much as 20x Tremendous Res Zoom. There is a 10 MP digicam on each the inside and on the entrance of the outside display. And, due to the foldable nature of the cellphone you’ll be able to take selfies utilizing the extra highly effective rear cameras by testing the preview of the shot on the outside display.
The newest Google foldable prices the identical $1,799 because the 2023 mannequin and is available in both Obsidian or Porcelain. It too is now obtainable for preorder.
Google Pixel Watch 3
Final 12 months we mentioned the Pixel Watch 2 was “catching up to its rivals,” however nonetheless took concern with the disjointed Fitbit integration and the shortage of wi-fi charging. Fitbit remains to be very a lot part of the Pixel Watch 3 expertise and charging nonetheless requires a cable — our full evaluation will inform us whether or not these are dealbreakers or not.
The watch now is available in two sizes, with a bigger 45mm case dimension becoming a member of the 41mm mannequin. Due to thinner bezels, the 41mm show is 10 % bigger than on the Pixel Watch 2 and the 45mm display is 40 % bigger. Each screens peak at 2,000 nits, which is twice as brilliant as 2023’s watch, and each get as dim as 1 nit.
There is a new readiness rating and cardio load monitoring, which sounds a bit just like the Coaching Load characteristic in Apple’s watchOS 11 — all of which provide you with suggestions on how arduous you are pushing your self. New integrations embrace displaying dwell feed of your Nest cams out of your watch and utilizing the wearable as a Google TV distant. The battery gives the identical 24 hours of use on a cost, however Google claims recharging might be 20 % faster with a 30-watt wall adapter (bought individually).
The 41mm Pixel Watch 3 retails for $349 for WiFi solely and $449 with LTE. The 45mm mannequin goes for $399 or $499 when you get mobile connectivity. Each are available your selection of black or silver, with an added hazel hue for the bigger case dimension.
Google Pixel Buds Professional 2
Regardless of being smaller and lighter, the Pixel Buds Pro 2 one way or the other handle to pack an hour longer battery life in comparison with the Pixel Buds Pro, now getting as much as 12 hours of play with noise cancellation off. The Silent Seal characteristic is again and now ought to scale back twice as a lot noise as earlier than. Plus they’re going to assist Spatial audio with head monitoring — however solely when paired with a Pixel 6 or newer cellphone or a Pixel Pill.
The Tensor chip inside, the primary in a pair of Google earbuds, allows the brand new options and might course of audio “90 occasions sooner than the velocity of sound” with a purpose to adapt to your surroundings. And due to multi-path processing, noise-cancellation computations do not occur on the identical channel because the audio, so the music you hear is unaltered.
New “twist-to-adjust” stabilizers ought to preserve the buds in place if you’re understanding, however will be adjusted within the different path for a extra comfy really feel. Conversation Detection is again, that means you will not have to tug out a bud when it’s essential discuss to somebody — as a substitute the music pauses if you begin talking and resumes if you’re finished.
The Pixel Buds 2 Professional can be found to preorder now and are available Porcelain, Hazel, Wintergreen and Peony. They’re promoting for $229, which is $29 greater than the Pixel Buds Professional had been at launch.
Google Pixel Screenshot app
The brand new Pixel Screenshot app is just obtainable on Pixel 9 telephones at launch (no phrase but on wider availability) and makes use of Gemini Nano (the on-board AI mannequin) to avoid wasting, extract and manage information you would possibly in any other case neglect the origin of. For instance, you’ll be able to take a screenshot of an Instagram put up a couple of music competition and the AI provides you with a abstract in addition to buttons to do issues like add dates to your calendar the subsequent time you entry that screenshot from the app. A screenshot of a restaurant ought to produce buttons to name the enterprise or navigate there by way of Google Maps.
Google says you must also be capable to ask pure questions utilizing the app’s microphone, and Pixel Screenshots will both reply it outright and produce up related annotated photographs. The app launches right now, together with all the things else and whereas it is paying homage to Apple’s redesigned Photos app, we’ll should strive it for ourselves to essentially suss out all of the variations.
Android 15 and Gemini
This wasn’t the primary official dialogue of Android 15 — we heard a bit of in regards to the new working system throughout May’s Google I/O event. However now we now have a clearer image of what the software program can do, which principally revolves round giving Gemini the reigns and letting Google’s AI do your bidding. Gemini will be pulled up over no matter app you are utilizing and reply your questions on what’s on display. Circle to Share enables you to shortly ship no matter you occur to be to your contacts with only a couple faucets.
Google has revamped its Assistant round Gemini. Google {hardware} Chief Rick Osterloh mentioned, “It is the most important leap ahead since we launched Google Assistant.” And Google guarantees that the assistant will not simply be for fancy flagship units, but in addition current ones — it isn’t simply Google telephones that get the instruments, however all Android telephones. A few of the demos (all of which had been carried out dwell on stage — with a few hiccups, and large cheers when issues went proper) had been carried out on Samsung and Motorla telephones. President of Android, Sameer Samat, known as Gemini the “most generally obtainable AI Assistant.”
Now you can additionally ask Gemini to entry recordsdata in your Drive or messages in your Gmail account to generate text-based content material like bios, exercise plans or itineraries. To maintain your private particulars personal, requests involving probably the most delicate information are dealt with by Gemini Nano, an AI mannequin that lives in your cellphone.
Different examples included asking Gemini to create an inventory of the meals a YouTube creator eats on a journey video after which added these to an inventory. Or asking it to create a playlist described by vibes. With Gemini Dwell, you get just a few new voices, together with Dipper, Ursa and Vega. Gemini Dwell hits arduous on the conversational facet of speaking with Gemini and the responses did certainly sound pure — particularly when you do not have to maintain saying “hey Google.”
All the pieces else
Different options revealed in Mountain View embrace the Add Me characteristic in photographs. The AI trick permits the photographer to be within the shot by taking one photograph with out them, after which one other with them in place, then AI merges the photographs, guaranteeing actuality’s growing subjectivity.
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