Everything Announced at Made by Google 2024: New Pixel 9 Phones and Gemini Live Takes Over Android

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After months of silly rumor-mongering and wondering wherefore Google was debuting its Pixel household earlier than expected—a afloat 2 months earlier than expected—the institution has yet revealed each that is caller with the Pixel 9 household of smartphones. It’s not one, two, oregon adjacent 3 models of caller phones. There are 4 caller Pixel phones, 2 caller Pixel watches, and a brace of Pixel earbuds. Google besides made a sizeable todo astir caller and updated AI capabilities it added to the Android operating strategy crossed its hardware lineup, adjacent spending portion of the Made by Google keynote demonstrating the Pixel’s Gemini-infused abilities.

Here’s a speedy rundown of what Google touched upon successful its keynote and each the caller hardware it announced today. Note that each the Pixel 9 hardware has varying on-sale dates.

The extremity for Android?

Okay, I’m being hyperbolic, but Google spent a information of its Android hardware lawsuit talking astir however Gemini would go a important portion of the operating system. Even Sameer Samat, President of the Android ecosystem, admitted the institution is good connected the mode to gathering the full OS with AI astatine the core. You tin forgive maine for saying that we should beryllium saying Sayonara to the Android we erstwhile knew.

In truth, it volition conscionable beryllium Android with a much salient AI footprint. Gemini volition beryllium capable to work and spot everything you do—Google promises the delicate worldly is processed on-device with the latest Gemini Nano models—to go the Google Assistant we’d ever hoped to have. One of the main features debuted astatine the Made by Google lawsuit was Gemini Live, which is coming to Pixel and Samsung hardware. The demo showed however overmuch much conversational and integrated Gemini Live feels compared to the Google Assistant of yore. A caller dawn is upon us.

Pixel 9 successful 4 caller flavors

This is the astir prime Android users person ever had, buying hardware straight from Google. There are 4 caller models of the Pixel 9 generation, 2 of which are shipping archetypal and 2 of which volition beryllium rolling retired successful stages. They’re the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, and they’re each powered by the aforesaid halfway processor, the Tensor G4. Google said astatine its keynote that the caller CPU has a Gemini Nano exemplary that is “three times much sophisticated” than the 1 it shipped 9 months ago. The Tensor G4 is astir treble the processing capabilities of the Tensor G3 successful the Pixel 8.

As rumored, the Pixel 9 comes successful 3 flavors: 6.3 inches with 2 camera lenses, 6.3 inches with 3 camera lenses, and 6.8 inches with 3 camera lenses and the biggest battery. Google upped the representation capableness of its Pixel devices, making its flagship hardware worthy of the terms increase. There is 12GB of RAM connected the Pixel 9 and 16GB successful the Pixel 9 Pro/Pro XL, which Google says volition assistance the phones “keep up” with each the AI going into Android. Indeed, 1 of the caveats of utilizing the smaller Pixel implicit the past fewer generations was its middling representation offering. It’s bully to spot a smaller offering for the Pro lineup—that’s the exemplary I preordered during Google’s presumption due to the fact that of the 16GB of RAM bump connected the Pixel 9 Pro and its 10x optical zoom. The Pixel 9 is constricted to 2x optical zoom. The Pixel 9 Pros besides person a higher solution selfie camera.

The Pixel 9 Pro XL is the elephantine telephone of the bunch, and it has the astir to connection astatine its $1,100 terms point. It has the aforesaid 50-MP superior camera and 48-MP ultra-wide camera with the aforesaid 123-degree tract of presumption arsenic the Pixel 9. It besides has an further Telephoto Camera with a 22-degree tract of presumption and 5x optical zoom (this is besides connected the Pixel 9 Pro). Its large artillery is 5,060 mAh and has 16GB of memory.

The Pixel 9 starts astatine $800 and ships soon, on with the $1,100 Pixel 9 Pro XL. The Pixel 9 Pro volition vessel adjacent period and starts astatine $1,000.

Google’s Pixel 9 Pro Fold is billed much arsenic a tablet that folds into a telephone than a Pixel smartphone with an 8-inch surface inside. Google adjacent says this is the largest show connected a phone, which is technically correct, though it clashes with the thought that this is simply a tablet first. This is precise overmuch a Pixel instrumentality that folds up. It has 16GB of RAM, a 4,650 mAh battery, and up to 512GB of storage. You tin work much astir it successful Gizmoodo’s hands-on.

The Pixel 9 Pro Fold (say that successful 1 breath) volition commencement astatine $1,800 and vessel successful September.

Two caller Pixel Watches

The Pixel Watch 3 was announced successful 41mm and 45mm sizes, adding much assortment to Google’s existent wearable lineup. The larger variant has a bigger artillery to powerfulness up its larger display. The Fitbit app has besides received caller capabilities similar the Morning Brief, which aims to summarize what’s happening based connected your stats.

The Pixel Watch 3 starts astatine $350 for the 41mm basal size and $450 for the 45mm size. The watches commencement shipping successful September.

And Pixel Buds 2 Pro, too

The precise peculiar Pixel Buds Pro 2 are the archetypal of Google’s buds to integrate a Tensor AI spot into the device. This volition assistance it bash precocious audio processing and immoderate other it needs to alteration Google’s AI tricks. Google lauded that the spot wrong tin processor audio 90 times faster than the velocity of sound. That’s decidedly a metric.

The Pixel Buds 2 Pro volition person progressive sound cancellation similar different earbuds. They besides boast Clear Calling (a favourite Pixel feature), which tin link to the Find My Device web and volition intermission euphony if you privation it erstwhile you commencement speaking. The buds outgo $230 and vessel successful September.

More is coming astir each the hardware and artificial quality infused into the caller Google hardware—stay tuned!

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