Google Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 3, Pixel Buds Pro 2: Specs, Features, Release Date

It is accessible for preorder now and costs $1,799 with a $300 retailer credit score, with official gross sales beginning on September 4. Anybody who purchases it would get one 12 months freed from the Google One AI Premium Plan.

New Apps, Providers, and AI Options

Pixel telephones are identified for his or her bevy of smart features, and a number of other new additions are arriving with the newest handsets, plus some new apps. There’s now a devoted Pixel Climate app, and it employs the on-device Gemini Nano giant language mannequin to summarize the climate. One other new app is Pixel Screenshots, a devoted place that shops your screenshots, and since Gemini Nano can perceive the content material of your photos, you possibly can ask for data with out having to hunt for the appropriate display seize. There’s additionally Pixel Studio, which helps you to use generative AI to create new photos, and you’ll even create stickers out of your images to insert.

On the calling entrance, there’s “Name Notes.” This provides you a sticky observe’s price of particulars out of your name. These particulars might be issues like telephone numbers talked about through the name, restore quotes, or reminders to name somebody again—it will log something noteworthy and put it in a observe so that you needn’t hunt for pen and paper. Google says the particular person on the opposite finish is notified when this function is energetic attributable to name recording legal guidelines.

Pixel telephones are lastly debuting Satellite tv for pc SOS, a function that emerged on the iPhone 14 in 2022, making them a number of the first Android telephones with the flexibility. If you happen to’re out of vary of Wi-Fi or a cell tower, Pixel 9 gadgets will share your location and discover your emergency contacts through satellite tv for pc. Nevertheless, this is not a assured get-out-of-jail-free card—it requires setup, an extra cost, and can solely work within the US for now. (As with Apple, will probably be free for the primary two years after activation.)

Google additionally has a number of new AI digicam options like Add Me, Autoframe, Reimagine, and Zoom Improve—I’ve rounded them up in this story if you wish to study extra. (This one’s already lengthy sufficient!)

The Pixel Watch 3

There are actually two sizes of Pixel Watch: 41 and 45 millimeters.

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This 12 months’s Pixel Watch 3 is the primary time you might have measurement choices—it is available in a 41- and 45-mm case measurement, with the latter providing a 40 % bigger display. Google says these are filled with the identical “Actua” OLED show expertise as its Pixel telephones and are twice as shiny, making them simpler to learn on sunny days. You may also crank the brightness down as little as 1 nit, so you do not blind your eyes proper earlier than mattress.