These are full retail prices. Unlike Apple with the iPhone, Google and Pixel retailers like Best Buy often discount current model Pixel phones several times during the year, and I'm not referring to "discounts" or "trade-in deals" tied to carriers.
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Google Launches New Pixel 9 Smartphones With Gemini AI
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These are full retail prices. Unlike Apple with the iPhone, Google and Pixel retailers like Best Buy often discount current model Pixel phones several times during the year, and I'm not referring to "discounts" or "trade-in deals" tied to carriers.
Because of ego. Most of us compare ourselves to others daily.
May as well have renamed it the Gemini, that's all they talked about with an add-on of hardware.
The minimum on the MacBook Air should 12GB and MBP should be 16GB. Pretty sad they’re on 8GB.
apples camera bumps are still the ugliest solution. I remember thinking the render of the first one years ago was a joke. Hoping they follow suit with the line across the top for lenses soon
The only thing I miss from my old Pixel 4 is the crystal-clear camera quality, Pixels really have something good going there.
The watch tho, I still hate that smallish round shape with a passion - either make it bigger or move to a rounded rectangle, the display just doesn't work as is.
The watch tho, I still hate that smallish round shape with a passion - either make it bigger or move to a rounded rectangle, the display just doesn't work as is.
By the way, there's good reason for the Pixel 9 Pro/XL models to have 16 GB of RAM: it's running Android. Because of the way Android manages RAM (which is far less efficient than how Apple manages RAM), you really do need 16 GB of RAM to supports all its features, especially the Gemini AI functionality.
Wait for the iPhone fold phone in 2 to 3 years and this phone will be garbage in comparison? I would think any 2 or 3 year old phone would be much slower and dated than a new phone.
Not sure why people are so heavily critical about non Apple phones, especially non Apple phones that Apple has no competition for.
I love the idea of foldable phones and when Apple does eventually have one I am sure they will do it really well and by that time everyone else will be doing it better then they are today as well, everyone else just had the guts to work it out while Apple waits. I have no real issue with Apples approach, it has us users with generally solid and bug free hardware.
Modern philosophy will get very interesting in the very near future. Step aside Plato and Socrates, we've got bollman and [TBA]!
Sure, but for me, at least, one's phone has never been part of any calculation.
...Plus, 90% of people, Android and iPhone, stick their phone in a case.
Does the Pixel still not support Fat 32 drives? This was something the reviewers never mentioned and why I knew no one was buying these phones, otherwise people would be asking why they can’t connect their camera cards or portable drive to the phone. For me though it was the jarring haptic feedback that drove me away. Another fun fact: Google proper has nothing to do with the design and manufacture of these phones, it’s all done by HTC which Google does own but is run independently. You Pixel owners can look at your mobile carrier account settings and see what it says there.
I would almost say the opposite. I think Apple software rocks, I prefer the Walled Garden over the Unwanted Jungle. Meaning that I would be unhappy even if I can use 99.9% of services out there, because I can only use one at a time. I want to use the ones I think are best - Apple Services, ...that only are available on Apple Products..
I really like the design language of these new Pixels. Google has been steadily improving and will catch up with Apple soon if the pace does not change.
Also — would buy the Fold in a heartbeat if Apple would sell iPhone like that.
Also — would buy the Fold in a heartbeat if Apple would sell iPhone like that.
16 GB in a device that costs $999? Absolute madness, giving their customers more than the bare minimum... sounds like Google is lacking in Courage™ these days!
...OK, joking aside, this does seem like a pretty good phone. I don't know if people will actually use the phone's new AI features or if those features are just going to be gimmicks that'll be forgotten about after a week, but everything else about the Pixel makes it look like a solid, respectable phone.
Ordered myself a 9 Pro XL. Can’t wait.
Oh my, I didn't knew Google would hold a Pixel event at this time. I always thought it was around Spring of this year. It felt like yesterday when they revealed the Pixel 8 lineup.
I wouldn't buy these myself, but this looks like a solid lineup with some good phones. Kudos to Google for that.
Now looking forward to what Apple will bring for the next month.
I wouldn't buy these myself, but this looks like a solid lineup with some good phones. Kudos to Google for that.
Now looking forward to what Apple will bring for the next month.
Well, yes,
And that's a good thing!
Technology should be a tool, not your reason to exist. Thinking of screwdrivers here, it's important that they work and all but they aren't supposed to be your life validation.
Overpriced... maybe?
That's hard to know, they could get away with both higher and lower prices...
These look good, especially the fold. Wish they kept the aspect ratio of the original but all the tech blogs were whining about it. Who wants an almost-square tablet?
It is like people who apparently care what others think about what they have parked on their driveway, or obsess over what others park on theirs. Hard to imagine living a life like that.
Even Gurman knows Apple is in the gutter.
These phones blow the 16 pro out the water in features and looks, who's going to buy an iPhone that does what last years did and the year before, and before... but but but capture button!!!!!!!
16 GB in a device that costs $999? Absolute madness, giving their customers more than the bare minimum... sounds like Google is lacking in Courage™ these days!
...OK, joking aside, this does seem like a pretty good phone. I don't know if people will actually use the phone's new AI features or if those features are just going to be gimmicks that'll be forgotten about after a week, but everything else about the Pixel makes it look like a solid, respectable phone.
In a few months these will be on sale. Wife picked up a Pixel 8 for $399 from Spectrum, spring of this year. Paid cash, unlocked, and out the door. It was a nice upgrade from her Pixel 2.
I might look at the Pixel line in two or three years when my 13 Pro is due for an upgrade.
I agree its hard being an apple user now, pixel 9 pro xl is great shame its android
Google has a pink Pro phone, your move Apple. I’m ready to hand over the money but it has to be p i n k