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this is a pixel 9 and this is a 9 Pro XL

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and this is a pixel 7 nonpr that I've

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been running for 2 years I want to see if it's worth trading this puppy in and

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getting a couple hundred off the price of one of these new ones and to evaluate

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whether it's worth it I'm going to do all the demos that they showed on the

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keynote to see if these features are actually cool cuz it is actually pretty

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exciting to think that I could have Scarlett Johansson her level AI in the

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palm of my hand some of the Computing happening on device and wow these are

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some goodl looking phones this is the winter green this is the porcelain

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there's a bunch of other cool colors notably the pink and as for what's in

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the box on the lid side you get a sim

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removal tool papers and under the phones which I

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really want to look at but I'm restraining myself a simple ctoc

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charging cable you're not going to get a charger in the box we're all used to

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that now but it should be noted that this pixel generation uses a 45 WT

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charger which is not a lot of Watts lots of other phones are using 65 or even

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like a 100 in some of these crazy cases however 45 is high for this uh series of

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phones which have historically used 30 WS we'll get more into the fast charging

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and battery life specs later on in the video the first thing I noticed about

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the industrial design on the back side is this kind of pill-shaped visor now

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mine went all the way across this one this one's cut and rounded and it's

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super sharp this direction it's just like a 90 it's obviously a a huge camera

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bump but it's not that offensive because it does go across the whole device I

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think that is better because it's it's flat on the table instead of Rocky

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that's better than just being half the phone in terms of the difference between

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the two on the exterior you've got these polished metal rails on the pro as well

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as a soft touch matte back which is a

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lot less sweaty feeling than the glass

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back on the non-pro I don't like glass backs this thing is going to slip out of

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your pocket so fast when you sit down in the movie theater that's why I recommend

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getting a skin if you're not going to do a full case looking at the visors

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another difference between these phones is the number of cameras they each have

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the same main shooter and Ultra wides

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however the pro version also has a 5x telephoto and you can also see a

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temperature sensor over here we'll talk more about the telephoto and other cameras later flipping them around to

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the front wow these look like iPhones here's an iPhone 15 Pro see how it rocks

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super rounded kind of the same proportions it's just really iphony to

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me my last one was much more square and Samsung they both are OLED screens but

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this one is an ltpo screen so instead of it just being 60 to 100 Hertz variable

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refresh rate like the non-pro it can do down to just a single

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HT it's also brighter than the non-pro and our testing actually did confirm the

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claimed brightness spec another upgrade that's common to both of

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these phones is the fingerprint sensor it is no longer an optical sensor it is

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an ultrasonic sensor which is going to be better for many reasons they're

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claiming 50% faster as well as it has an

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8 mm x 8 mm sensor which is larger now

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so it should be more consistent and it won't blind you at night time because it

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doesn't have to shine a light to read your fingerprint the fingerprint reader on this thing sucked to this day it

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stinks I've had this thing for over 2 years and I still have to go fail fail

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fail just enter your pattern all the time

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let's see how reliable this one

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is wow it just worked that was fast too now

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that the phone's unlocked we're going to try out all of the cool AI features that

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look exciting but maybe are just gimmicks right after this message from

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our sponsor dbrand they sent over one of their grip cases for the pixel 9 Pro XL

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and I would be very scared even though I like running my phone naked

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well if you don't count a skin if I was going to spend the big money on this

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thing I would probably get a case like

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this especially since it's flattens it out so the visor is no longer a bump

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that honestly is a big Improvement oddly enough though the case is actually

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thicker at the top oh it gets wider at the top to protect the camera if you

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look at it this way you can see the lip along here widens over here so that if

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it falls like this it doesn't fall directly on the camera the uh

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buttons are so tacked off it's got punch outs for the mics and for the speakers

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and the ports imagine you have to take the case off to charge uh no you don't

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have to do that it's a durable and grippy case thing just Glu to your hand

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and see that symbol inside that means mag safe for the front side they do have

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screen protectors on offer as well so check out short lin.com and yes I can

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say that I'm 5 fo9 okay for all my demos

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I want to do them on the non-pro because I figure if they work with this thing

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with 12 GB of RAM surely it'll work with

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this thing and it's 16 GB of RAM holy

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Apple give people RAM I'm really excited for the new ad me feature so you just

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scroll over to it in the camera app and now I give this to my friend to take a

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picture of

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me and now we can see the results there we are I mean your arm is gone what is

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that mixed results I guess I wonder if I could gener to fill that in though

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that's another part of this whole package they had magic eraser before now

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they have magic editor Edit Magic editor

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button please back up this photo use magic oh they're always trying to get

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you to back up those jerks all right here we

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go reimagine as he's got a long sleeve

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shirt on whoa basically looks like there's a cushion there's like they

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added a cushion to your hand which

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actually is an improvement it's nonsensical but at least it's not like a

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gaping hole oh actually I just just going to erase even more of you wa here

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we go what I chose to erase the hole and

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it filled the hole with something that looks more like an arm that's actually

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the best one yet oh look at this zany picture of lus let's just edit this

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without his permission using AI so I have this cool reimagine thing where you

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can just I don't know select the background oh it's kind of a whack

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background to choose there we go that's pretty good we'll reimagine that to be

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space full of stars and Nebula look at that

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there's lonus in space with like an ironing board behind his head or

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something so much room for creativity pixel screenshots is an app but now

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there's AI features we can turn on search your screenshots with on device

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AI let's do it cuz man it can be hard to find an old screenshot of like a receipt

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or something now I'm going to search for a screenshot and I'm going to say how

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long does it take your passport to be renewed and there it is I mean not a

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really super hard task since it has the word passport right in the image but

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let's see if I can do it based on another thing like show me a screenshot

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that is white couldn't do it black text on a white

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background couldn't do it got some limitations let's try the next thing in

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keep there's now this magic list function here it's saying help me create

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a list create a shopping list for a keto

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friendly cheesecake except don't include

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cream cheese cuz I already have a bunch in my fridge here it is keto cheesecake

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shopping list no cream cheese I am not keto currently but I have been in the

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past and I've made a lot of cheesecakes and I can confirm this looks realistic

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enough but what about how much I need of

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each thing kind of a gap another AI feature is clear calling so we're going

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to see how the person using the pixel sounds when they are vacuuming so why

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don't you take the phone and the vacuum Jake Bel yes sir and I'll take your

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iPhone fine vacuuming outside just vacuuming the

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sidewalk you're vacuuming right now I'm vacuuming right now I'm going to stop

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talking you can see if and hear

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it I still can you hear me vacuuming no

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not at all I'm vacuuming that is actually an awesome that's amazing

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compare that to this other recording where it's off I'm talking R's talking

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in the vacuum in Google did announce another feature called call notes that I

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wanted to try you would get to it but during a call by hitting the more button

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uh and pressing the button right there for it but it's not available it might

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be because we're in Canada but unfortunately we can't use it it doesn't

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just transcribe your call it actually gives a summary so for that call it would have said something like Jake is

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vacuuming and describes the quality of the call to James something like that

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this is actually a feature that iOS 18 is going to have as well so those of you

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on the beta might be using it already I would love to show you but I'm thy next

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I want to see how sweet the video quality is when I'm zoomed into to 5x on

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the pro model so let's hit a video let's look at these beautiful gentlemen over

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here boom I'm zoomed in now I did get a toast

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that came up and said that frame rate was reduced when I was super zoomed and

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you can definitely see a lot of Jitter in the viewfinder as I moved around it's

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actually super whack and I'm hoping it doesn't appear in the final video so

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let's check all right here it is and the

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Jitter is definitely still in the final video there's another thing I a try

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called video boost where you send the processing of a video off to Google

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servers for some time and it makes a lot

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of things better including the clarity of 20x videos so let's zoom into Jake

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Bell's

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face and processing is finally done and

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it's way better it's not perfect but it is way better also here's a bunch of

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photos taken with both phones and in pixel tradition they look great one of

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the the design changes they had this time around was a large Vapor chamber to

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help cool the phone and it turns out that doesn't make a difference whether

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you get a large Pro or just a smaller non-pro because both these phones

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performed almost identically in genjin Impact getting 46 average FPS and 45

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average FPS and even the 1% lows were within one frame of each other at 40 and

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39 not a stunning result would like to get 60 the game was on a high preset and

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the tensor G4 is not really a game gaming optimized chip so if you're a

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huge gamer this might not be the phone for you as for battery tests we did not

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do a battery longevity test but what we did do is a how long does it take to

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charge test we did lots of those it basically 30 minutes will get you 50%

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battery on either of these phones despite them having different battery sizes and it takes about an hour and a

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half to get 100% note though that that is with a 30 wat charger and as I said

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before these are available with 45 WT Chargers so expect those times to be

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significantly shorter if you do opt to buy a larger charging adapter or wall

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wart now let's talk price and worth the cheapest one is 800 bucks to

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go to the pro it's another 200 bucks at 1,000 to go up in size an additional

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$100 for $1,100 now the thing that makes it

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difficult to assess the value of this phone this phone that is marketed as

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being an AI phone is two things number

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one I can get the Gemini app on my old

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pixel how many of these cool features

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that I want this phone because of are going to be trickling down to my phone

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or maybe I can even do now definitely some of them and the second thing is

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that some of these new AI features you're going to need to have a premium

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Gemini AI Google One account which the

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Pro Models do come with a year of for

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free free I don't know which features

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require that that subscription and I don't know how sticky they'll get by the

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time that free trial expires such that I'm very disappointed and really feel

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compelled to keep paying a subscription I don't want to pay a subscription and

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so that just makes it really hard to assess whether you need to upgrade at all and if you do do you need to have

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the subscription I don't know you guys

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just wait till you break your screen I guess as always but let's say you do

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upgrade should you get the pro or the

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regular one I mean the decision to get the larger screen that's just up to you

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do you want a big phone 100 bucks but Pro versus non-pro that's coming down to

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more RAM the 5x telephoto slightly different industrial design brighter

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screen if you're out Outdoors a lot selfie Cam that says more megapixels on

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the pro it's tough you guys why don't you let me know in the comments whether you think that $200 Delta is worth it in

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this case why you're at it why don't you watch our video on the Samsung s24 I

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mean you'd be remiss if you didn't at least look at that phone if you're in the

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market for one of these right