Google's Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL are the first Pixels to replace the Assistant with Gemini, the company's new AI model. The Pixel 9 Pro has a new design with softer curved corners and a flattened edge, making it more comfortable to hold. The camera module is huge, but the phone doesn't feel like it's trying to make a design statement. The Pixel 9 Pro's 6.3-inch panel is roomy enough to see plenty of lines of text at once, and the Pixel 9 Pro XL has a 6.8-inch screen that's brighter than the Pixel 8 Pro. Both phones have Gorilla Glass Victus 2 on their displays and satin-finish backs. The Pixel 9 Pro arrives with several new features, including Zoom Enhance, which uses AI to increase detail and sharpness on your most aggressively zoomed photos, and Video Boost, which records video in a special mode and uploads clips to the cloud for server-side processing. The Pixel 9 Pro also has improved autofocus and smoother transitions between focal lengths and different camera sensors. The phone has a new 50MP primary camera, a 48MP ultra-wide, and a 48MP telephoto camera with a 5x optical zoom. The Pixel 9 Pro delivers on all these aspects, with varying degrees of success. The phone also has a new Magic Editor, which lets the Pixel try its hand at improving your photo's composition, cropping and even extending your photos, generating backgrounds and adding elements. There's also a new Reimagine feature that lets you select backgrounds, items or other areas of your photo, and create dreamy composite images. The Pixel 9 Pro has manual camera controls, which let you manually tweak exposure, shutter speed, and ISO, and are still super useful for those who know what they're doing. The Pixel 9 Pro also comes with new Pixel Screenshots and Pixel Studio apps, which are standalone apps designed to simplify the Photos app. However, the Pixel 9 doesn’t populate your screenshots automatically, nor could I find a way to pull my existing screenshots from my Google Photos backup.
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2024-08-21