This is a Pixel 9 and this is a 9 Pro XL and this is a Pixel 7 non-pro that I've been running
for two years. I want to see if it's worth trading this puppy in and getting a couple hundred dollars
off the price of one of these new ones and to evaluate whether it's worth it I'm going to do
all the demos that they showed on the keynote to see if these features are actually cool because
it is actually pretty exciting to think that I could have Scarlett Johansson her level AI
in the palm of my hand. Some of the computing happening on device and wow these are some
good-looking phones. This is the winter green, this is the porcelain, there's a bunch of other
cool colors notably the pink and as for what's in the box on the lid side you get a sim removable tool
papers and under the phones which I really want to look at but I'm restraining myself. A simple
C2C charging cable you're not going to get a charger in the box we're all used to that now
but it should be noted that this pixel generation uses a 45 watt charger which is not a lot of
watts lots of other phones are using 65 or even like a hundred and some of these crazy cases however
45 is high for this series of phones which have historically used 30 watts we'll get more into the
fast charging and battery life specs later on in the video. The first thing I notice about the
industrial design on the backside is this kind of pill shaped visor now mine went all the way
across this one's cut and rounded and it's super sharp this direction it's just like a 90 it's
obviously a huge camera bump but it's not that offensive because it does go across a whole
device I think that is better because it's it's flat on the table instead of rocky that's better
than just being half the phone in terms of the difference between the two on the exterior
you've got these polished metal rails on the pro as well as a soft touch matte back which is a lot
less sweaty feeling than the glass back on the non-pro I don't like glass backs this thing is
going to slip out of your pocket so fast when you sit down in the movie theater that's why
I recommend getting a skin if you're not going to do a full case looking at the visors another
difference in these phones is the number of cameras they each have the same main shooter
and ultra wides however the pro version also has a 5x telephoto and you can also see a temperature
sensor over here we'll talk more about the telephoto and other cameras later flipping them
around in the front wow these look like iPhones here's an iPhone 15 pro see how it rocks super
rounded kind of the same proportions this is just really iPhone-y to me my last one was much more
square and Samsung-y they both are OLED screens but this one is an LTPO screen so instead of it just
being 60 to 100 Hertz variable refresh rate like the non-pro it can do down to just a single hurt
it's also brighter than the non-pro and our testing actually did confirm the claimed brightness
specs another upgrade that's common to both of these phones is the fingerprint sensor it is no
longer an optical sensor it is an ultrasonic sensor which is going to be better for many reasons
they're claiming 50 faster as well as it has an 8 millimeter by 8 millimeter sensor which is larger
now so it should be more consistent and it won't blind you at night time because it doesn't have
the shine of light to read your fingerprint the fingerprint reader on this thing sucked
to this day it stinks I've had this thing for over two years and I still have to go
fail fail fail ah just enter your pattern all the time let's see how reliable this one is
wow it just worked that was fast too now the phone's unlocked we're gonna try out all of the cool
AI features that look exciting but maybe are just gimmicks okay so for all my demos I want to do
them on the non-pro because I figure if they work with this thing with this 12 gigabytes of RAM
surely it'll work with this thing and it's 16 gigabytes of RAM holy apple give people RAM
I'm really excited for the new admi feature so you just scroll over to it in the camera app
and now I give this to my friend to take a picture of me
and now we can see the results there we are I mean your ARM is gone what is that mixed results I guess
I wonder if I could generate a fill that in though that's another part of this whole package
they had magic eraser before now they have magic editor edit magic editor button please back up
this photo to use magic yeah oh they're always trying to get you to back up those jerks all right
here we go reimagine as he's got a long sleeve shirt on whoa basically looks like there's a
cushion they added a cushion to your hand which actually is an improvement it's nonsensical but
at least it's not like a gaping hole oh actually I just I'm just gonna erase even more of you
whoa here we go what I chose to erase the hole and it filled the hole with something that looks
more like an ARM that's actually the best one yet oh look at this zany picture of Linus let's just
edit this without his permission using AI so I have this cool reimagine thing where you can just
I don't know select the background oh it's kind of a whack background to choose here we go that's
pretty good we'll reimagine that to be space full of stars and nebula look at that there's Linus in
space with like an ironing board behind his head or something so much room for creativity pixel
screenshots is an app but now there's AI features we can turn on search your screenshots with on
device AI let's do it because man it can be hard to find an old screenshot of like a receipt or
something now I'm gonna search for a screenshot and I'm gonna say how long does it take your passport
to be renewed and there it is I mean not a really super hard task since it has the word passport
right in the image but let's see if I can do it based on another thing like show me a screenshot
that is white couldn't do it black text on a white background
couldn't do it got some limitations let's try the next thing in keep there's now this magic
list function here it's saying help me create a list create a shopping list for a keto friendly
cheesecake except don't include cream cheese because I already have a bunch of my fridge
here it is keto cheesecake shopping list no cream cheese I am not keto currently but I have been in
the past and I've made a lot of cheesecakes and I can confirm this looks realistic enough but what
about how much I need of each thing kind of a gap another AI feature is clear calling so we're
gonna see how the person using the pixel sounds when they are vacuuming so why don't you take
the phone and the vacuum Jake bell yes sir and I'll take your iPhone I'm vacuuming outside
just vacuuming the sidewalk your vacuuming right now I'm vacuuming right now I'm gonna stop talking
you can see if you can hear it I still don't hear me vacuuming no not at all I'm vacuuming
that is actually and awesome that's amazing compare that to this other recording where it's off
I'm talking I'm talking in the vacuuming Google did announce another feature called call notes that
I wanted to try you would get to it but during a call by hitting the more button and pressing the
button right there for it but it's not available it might be because we're in Canada but unfortunately
we can't use it it doesn't just transcribe your call actually gives a summary so for that call
it would have said something like Jake is vacuuming and describes the quality of the call to James
something like that this is actually a feature that iOS 18 is gonna have as well and so those of
you on the beta might be using it already I would love to show you but I'm sorry next I want to see
how sweet the video quality is when I'm zoomed into 5x on the pro model so let's hit a video
let's look at these beautiful gentlemen over here boom I'm zoomed in now I did get a toast
that came up and said that frame rate was reduced when I was super zoomed and you can definitely see
a lot of jitter in the viewfinder as I moved around it's actually super whack and I'm hoping it
doesn't appear in the final video so let's check all right here it is and the jitter is definitely
still in the final video there's another thing I want to try called video boost where you send the
processing of a video off to Google servers for some time and it makes a lot of things better
including the clarity of 20x videos so let's zoom into Jake bell's face
and processing is finally done and it's way better it's not perfect but it is way better
also here's a bunch of photos taken with both phones and in pixel tradition they look great
one of the design changes they had this time around was a large vapor chamber to help cool the
phone and it turns out that doesn't make a difference whether you get a large pro or just
a smaller non-pro because both these phones performed almost identically in genshin impact
getting 46 average FPS and 45 average FPS and even the one percent lows were within one frame
of each other at 40 and 39 not a stunning result would like to get 60 the game was on a high preset
and the tensor g4 is not really a gaming optimized chip so if you're a huge gamer this might not be
the phone for you as for battery tests we did not do a battery longevity test but what we did do
is a how long does it take to charge tests we did lots of those it basically 30 minutes will get
you 50 battery on either of these phones despite them having different battery sizes and it takes
about an hour and a half to get a hundred percent note though that that is with a 30 watt charger
and as i said before these are available 45 watt chargers so expect those times to be
significantly shorter if you do opt to buy a larger charging adapter or wall wart now let's
talk price and worth the cheapest one is 800 bucks to go to the pro it's another 200 bucks at a
thousand to go up in size an additional $100 for $1100 now the thing that makes it difficult to
assess the value of this phone this phone that is marketed as being an ai phone is two things
number one i can get the gemini app on my old pixel how many of these cool features that i want this
phone because of are going to be tripling down to my phone or maybe i can even do now
definitely some of them and the second thing is that some of these new ai features you're
going to need to have a premium gemini ai google one account which the pro models do come with a
year of for free free i don't know which features require that subscription and i don't know how
sticky they'll get by the time that free trial expires such that i'm very disappointed and
really feel compelled to keep paying a subscription i don't want to pay a subscription and 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 the subscription i don't know you guys just wait till you break your screen i guess as
always but let's say you do upgrade should you get the pro or the regular one i mean the decision
to get the largest screen that's just up to you do you want a big phone 100 bucks but pro versus
non-pro that's coming down to more RAM the 5x telephoto slightly different industrial design
brighter screen if you're outdoors a lot selfie cam that says more megapixels on the pro
stuff you guys why don't you let me know in the comments whether you think that $200 delta is
worth it in this case why rata why don't you watch our video on the samsung s24 i mean you'd be
remiss if you didn't at least look at that phone if you're in the market for one of these right