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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

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for two years. I want to see if it's worth trading this puppy in and getting a couple hundred dollars

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off the price of one of these new ones and to evaluate whether it's worth it I'm going to do

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all the demos that they showed on the keynote to see if these features are actually cool because

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it is actually pretty exciting to think that I could have Scarlett Johansson her level AI

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in the palm of my hand. Some of the computing happening on device and wow these are some

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good-looking phones. This is the winter green, this is the porcelain, there's a bunch of other

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cool colors notably the pink and as for what's in the box on the lid side you get a sim removable tool

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papers and under the phones which I really want to look at but I'm restraining myself. A simple

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C2C charging cable you're not going to get a charger in the box we're all used to that now

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but it should be noted that this pixel generation uses a 45 watt charger which is not a lot of

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watts lots of other phones are using 65 or even like a hundred and some of these crazy cases however

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45 is high for this series of phones which have historically used 30 watts we'll get more into the

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fast charging and battery life specs later on in the video. The first thing I notice about the

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industrial design on the backside is this kind of pill shaped visor now mine went all the way

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across this one's cut and rounded and it's super sharp this direction it's just like a 90 it's

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obviously a huge camera bump but it's not that offensive because it does go across a whole

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device I think that is better because it's it's flat on the table instead of rocky that's better

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than just being half the phone in terms of the difference between the two on the exterior

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you've got these polished metal rails on the pro as well as a soft touch matte back which is a lot

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less sweaty feeling than the glass back on the non-pro I don't like glass backs this thing is

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going to slip out of your pocket so fast when you sit down in the movie theater that's why

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

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difference in these phones is the number of cameras they each have the same main shooter

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

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

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around in the front wow these look like iPhones here's an iPhone 15 pro see how it rocks super

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rounded kind of the same proportions this is just really iPhone-y to me my last one was much more

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square and Samsung-y they both are OLED screens but this one is an LTPO screen so instead of it just

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being 60 to 100 Hertz variable refresh rate like the non-pro it can do down to just a single hurt

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

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specs another upgrade that's common to both of these phones is the fingerprint sensor it is no

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longer an optical sensor it is an ultrasonic sensor which is going to be better for many reasons

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they're claiming 50 faster as well as it has an 8 millimeter by 8 millimeter sensor which is larger

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

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the shine of light to read your fingerprint the fingerprint reader on this thing sucked

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to this day it stinks I've had this thing for over two years and I still have to go

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fail fail fail ah just enter your pattern all the time let's see how reliable this one is

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wow it just worked that was fast too now the phone's unlocked we're gonna try out all of the cool

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AI features that look exciting but maybe are just gimmicks okay so for all my demos I want to do

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them on the non-pro because I figure if they work with this thing with this 12 gigabytes of RAM

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surely it'll work with this thing and it's 16 gigabytes of RAM holy apple give people RAM

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I'm really excited for the new admi feature so you just scroll over to it in the camera app

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and now I give this to my friend to take a picture of me

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and now we can see the results there we are I mean your ARM is gone what is that mixed results I guess

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I wonder if I could generate a fill that in though that's another part of this whole package

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they had magic eraser before now they have magic editor edit magic editor button please back up

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this photo to use magic yeah oh they're always trying to get you to back up those jerks all right

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here we go reimagine as he's got a long sleeve shirt on whoa basically looks like there's a

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cushion they added a cushion to your hand which actually is an improvement it's nonsensical but

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at least it's not like a gaping hole oh actually I just I'm just gonna erase even more of you

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whoa here we go what I chose to erase the hole and it filled the hole with something that looks

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more like an ARM that's actually the best one yet oh look at this zany picture of Linus let's just

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

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I don't know select the background oh it's kind of a whack background to choose here we go that's

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pretty good we'll reimagine that to be space full of stars and nebula look at that there's Linus in

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space with like an ironing board behind his head or something so much room for creativity pixel

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screenshots is an app but now there's AI features we can turn on search your screenshots with on

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

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something now I'm gonna search for a screenshot and I'm gonna say how long does it take your passport

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to be renewed and there it is I mean not a really super hard task since it has the word passport

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right in the image but 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 background

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couldn't do it got some limitations let's try the next thing in keep there's now this magic

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list function here it's saying help me create a list create a shopping list for a keto friendly

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cheesecake except don't include cream cheese because I already have a bunch of my fridge

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here it is keto cheesecake shopping list no cream cheese I am not keto currently but I have been in

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the past and I've made a lot of cheesecakes and I can confirm this looks realistic enough but what

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about how much I need of each thing kind of a gap another AI feature is clear calling so we're

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gonna see how the person using the pixel sounds when they are vacuuming so why don't you take

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the phone and the vacuum Jake bell yes sir and I'll take your iPhone I'm vacuuming outside

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just vacuuming the sidewalk your vacuuming right now I'm vacuuming right now I'm gonna stop talking

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you can see if you can hear it I still don't hear me vacuuming no not at all I'm vacuuming

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that is actually and awesome that's amazing compare that to this other recording where it's off

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I'm talking I'm talking in the vacuuming Google did announce another feature called call notes that

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

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button right there for it but it's not available it might be because we're in Canada but unfortunately

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we can't use it it doesn't just transcribe your call actually gives a summary so for that call

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it would have said something like Jake is vacuuming and describes the quality of the call to James

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something like that this is actually a feature that iOS 18 is gonna have as well and so those of

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

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how sweet the video quality is when I'm zoomed into 5x on the pro model so let's hit a video

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let's look at these beautiful gentlemen over 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 you can definitely see

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a lot of jitter in the viewfinder as I moved around it's actually super whack and I'm hoping it

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doesn't appear in the final video so let's check all right here it is and the jitter is definitely

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still in the final video there's another thing I want to try called video boost where you send the

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processing of a video off to Google servers for some time and it makes a lot of things better

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including the clarity of 20x videos so let's zoom into Jake bell's face

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and processing is finally done and it's way better it's not perfect but it is way better

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also here's a bunch of photos taken with both phones and in pixel tradition they look great

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one of the design changes they had this time around was a large vapor chamber to help cool the

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phone and it turns out that doesn't make a difference whether you get a large pro or just

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a smaller non-pro because both these phones performed almost identically in genshin impact

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getting 46 average FPS and 45 average FPS and even the one percent lows were within one frame

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of each other at 40 and 39 not a stunning result would like to get 60 the game was on a high preset

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and the tensor g4 is not really a gaming optimized chip so if you're a huge gamer this might not be

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the phone for you as for battery tests we did not do a battery longevity test but what we did do

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is a how long does it take to charge tests we did lots of those it basically 30 minutes will get

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you 50 battery on either of these phones despite them having different battery sizes and it takes

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about an hour and a half to get a hundred percent note though that that is with a 30 watt charger

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and as i said before these are available 45 watt 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 wart now let's

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talk price and worth the cheapest one is 800 bucks to go to the pro it's another 200 bucks at a

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thousand to go up in size an additional $100 for $1100 now the thing that makes it difficult to

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assess the value of this phone this phone that is marketed as being an ai phone is two things

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number one i can get the gemini app on my old pixel how many of these cool features that i want this

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phone because of are going to be tripling down to my phone or maybe i can even do now

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definitely some of them and the second thing is that some of these new ai features you're

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going to need to have a premium gemini ai google one account which the pro models do come with a

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year of for free free i don't know which features require that subscription and i don't know how

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sticky they'll get by the time that free trial expires such that i'm very disappointed and

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really feel compelled to keep paying a subscription i don't want to pay a subscription and so that

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

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to have the subscription i don't know you guys just wait till you break your screen i guess as

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always but let's say you do upgrade should you get the pro or the regular one i mean the decision

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to get the largest screen that's just up to you do you want a big phone 100 bucks but pro versus

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non-pro that's coming down to more RAM the 5x telephoto slightly different industrial design

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brighter screen if you're outdoors a lot selfie cam that says more megapixels on the pro

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stuff you guys why don't you let me know in the comments whether you think that $200 delta is

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worth it in this case why rata why don't you watch our video on the samsung s24 i mean you'd be

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remiss if you didn't at least look at that phone if you're in the market for one of these right