Google Wants You to Break Up With Your Old Phone for the Pixel 9

Samsung’s foldable fanfare is over, and present Google tin officially instrumentality implicit the spotlight. The institution is teasing its hardware successful new promotional material. You tin peep it yourself astatine the Google Store, wherever you’ll besides spot 1 of the archetypal authoritative photos of the Pixel 9 Pro.

The video that Google made for this juncture is peculiarly cheeky. The premise is that you’re chatting with Gemini, Google’s AI chatbot, and asking for assistance penning a breakup missive to your aged phone. I’m assuming this is referencing a instrumentality from a fruit-that-grows-on-a-tree company. There’s besides notation successful the punctual astir looking for a instrumentality that “actually feels magical.” Maybe that’s a excavation astatine Samsung’s Galaxy AI.

We don’t spot the Gemini effect backmost to the prompt. Instead, you tin scroll down the leafage for accusation astir the Made by Google event. It starts unrecorded streaming connected August 13 astatine 10 A.M. PT / 1 P.M. ET. Scroll further down, and you’ll spot a snippet of the apical of the Pixel 9 Pro. As the rumors said, the corners are rounder than ever, and the camera barroom seems to protrude with purpose.

The main constituent of this promotional worldly is to punctual you that the existent magic of the Google Pixel is successful Gemini AI. 9to5Google reported earlier successful the week that Google volition apt connection a twelvemonth of Gemini Advanced by purchasing the Pixel 9 hardware to entice much users toward utilizing the chatbot. It volition yet regenerate Google Assistant for things similar assistance with a travel or, arsenic shown successful the illustration above, penning a missive to get retired of a relationship. While you tin bash those things with Google’s Gemini, your results volition vary.

Google says the lawsuit volition bring caller worldly from Android—likely the nationalist merchandise of Android 15—Gemini and the “Pixel portfolio.” At the extremity of the Made by Google unrecorded stream, you tin pre-order the caller Pixel devices.