WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.800 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 00:00:06.800 --> 00:00:13.200 for two years. I want to see if it's worth trading this puppy in and getting a couple hundred dollars 00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:17.840 off the price of one of these new ones and to evaluate whether it's worth it I'm going to do 00:00:18.400 --> 00:00:24.800 all the demos that they showed on the keynote to see if these features are actually cool because 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:30.800 it is actually pretty exciting to think that I could have Scarlett Johansson her level AI 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:36.400 in the palm of my hand. Some of the computing happening on device and wow these are some 00:00:36.400 --> 00:00:40.560 good-looking phones. This is the winter green, this is the porcelain, there's a bunch of other 00:00:40.560 --> 00:00:48.640 cool colors notably the pink and as for what's in the box on the lid side you get a sim removable tool 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:56.320 papers and under the phones which I really want to look at but I'm restraining myself. A simple 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:01.200 C2C charging cable you're not going to get a charger in the box we're all used to that now 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:06.720 but it should be noted that this pixel generation uses a 45 watt charger which is not a lot of 00:01:06.720 --> 00:01:12.640 watts lots of other phones are using 65 or even like a hundred and some of these crazy cases however 00:01:12.640 --> 00:01:19.440 45 is high for this series of phones which have historically used 30 watts we'll get more into the 00:01:19.440 --> 00:01:23.440 fast charging and battery life specs later on in the video. The first thing I notice about the 00:01:23.440 --> 00:01:29.040 industrial design on the backside is this kind of pill shaped visor now mine went all the way 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:35.120 across this one's cut and rounded and it's super sharp this direction it's just like a 90 it's 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:40.160 obviously a huge camera bump but it's not that offensive because it does go across a whole 00:01:40.160 --> 00:01:46.000 device I think that is better because it's it's flat on the table instead of rocky that's better 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:50.400 than just being half the phone in terms of the difference between the two on the exterior 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:56.800 you've got these polished metal rails on the pro as well as a soft touch matte back which is a lot 00:01:56.800 --> 00:02:04.560 less sweaty feeling than the glass back on the non-pro I don't like glass backs this thing is 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:08.560 going to slip out of your pocket so fast when you sit down in the movie theater that's why 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:12.720 I recommend getting a skin if you're not going to do a full case looking at the visors another 00:02:12.720 --> 00:02:17.760 difference in these phones is the number of cameras they each have the same main shooter 00:02:17.760 --> 00:02:24.160 and ultra wides however the pro version also has a 5x telephoto and you can also see a temperature 00:02:24.160 --> 00:02:28.400 sensor over here we'll talk more about the telephoto and other cameras later flipping them 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:35.120 around in the front wow these look like iPhones here's an iPhone 15 pro see how it rocks super 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:40.240 rounded kind of the same proportions this is just really iPhone-y to me my last one was much more 00:02:40.240 --> 00:02:46.720 square and Samsung-y they both are OLED screens but this one is an LTPO screen so instead of it just 00:02:46.720 --> 00:02:53.280 being 60 to 100 Hertz variable refresh rate like the non-pro it can do down to just a single hurt 00:02:54.480 --> 00:02:59.520 it's also brighter than the non-pro and our testing actually did confirm the claimed brightness 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:04.080 specs another upgrade that's common to both of these phones is the fingerprint sensor it is no 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:08.960 longer an optical sensor it is an ultrasonic sensor which is going to be better for many reasons 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:14.960 they're claiming 50 faster as well as it has an 8 millimeter by 8 millimeter sensor which is larger 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:20.400 now so it should be more consistent and it won't blind you at night time because it doesn't have 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:24.000 the shine of light to read your fingerprint the fingerprint reader on this thing sucked 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:27.840 to this day it stinks I've had this thing for over two years and I still have to go 00:03:28.640 --> 00:03:35.200 fail fail fail ah just enter your pattern all the time let's see how reliable this one is 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:44.720 wow it just worked that was fast too now the phone's unlocked we're gonna try out all of the cool 00:03:44.720 --> 00:03:49.120 AI features that look exciting but maybe are just gimmicks okay so for all my demos I want to do 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:54.400 them on the non-pro because I figure if they work with this thing with this 12 gigabytes of RAM 00:03:54.960 --> 00:04:02.320 surely it'll work with this thing and it's 16 gigabytes of RAM holy apple give people RAM 00:04:02.320 --> 00:04:05.920 I'm really excited for the new admi feature so you just scroll over to it in the camera app 00:04:05.920 --> 00:04:08.080 and now I give this to my friend to take a picture of me 00:04:12.320 --> 00:04:21.040 and now we can see the results there we are I mean your ARM is gone what is that mixed results I guess 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:24.480 I wonder if I could generate a fill that in though that's another part of this whole package 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:31.200 they had magic eraser before now they have magic editor edit magic editor button please back up 00:04:31.200 --> 00:04:36.560 this photo to use magic yeah oh they're always trying to get you to back up those jerks all right 00:04:36.560 --> 00:04:45.440 here we go reimagine as he's got a long sleeve shirt on whoa basically looks like there's a 00:04:45.440 --> 00:04:53.040 cushion they added a cushion to your hand which actually is an improvement it's nonsensical but 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:58.160 at least it's not like a gaping hole oh actually I just I'm just gonna erase even more of you 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:05.600 whoa here we go what I chose to erase the hole and it filled the hole with something that looks 00:05:05.600 --> 00:05:10.240 more like an ARM that's actually the best one yet oh look at this zany picture of Linus let's just 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:15.200 edit this without his permission using AI so I have this cool reimagine thing where you can just 00:05:15.200 --> 00:05:19.920 I don't know select the background oh it's kind of a whack background to choose here we go that's 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:29.760 pretty good we'll reimagine that to be space full of stars and nebula look at that there's Linus in 00:05:29.760 --> 00:05:35.040 space with like an ironing board behind his head or something so much room for creativity pixel 00:05:35.040 --> 00:05:40.000 screenshots is an app but now there's AI features we can turn on search your screenshots with on 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:44.640 device AI let's do it because man it can be hard to find an old screenshot of like a receipt or 00:05:44.640 --> 00:05:49.760 something now I'm gonna search for a screenshot and I'm gonna say how long does it take your passport 00:05:49.760 --> 00:05:54.960 to be renewed and there it is I mean not a really super hard task since it has the word passport 00:05:54.960 --> 00:06:00.880 right in the image but let's see if I can do it based on another thing like show me a screenshot 00:06:00.880 --> 00:06:04.400 that is white couldn't do it black text on a white background 00:06:07.280 --> 00:06:12.080 couldn't do it got some limitations let's try the next thing in keep there's now this magic 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:18.320 list function here it's saying help me create a list create a shopping list for a keto friendly 00:06:18.320 --> 00:06:23.680 cheesecake except don't include cream cheese because I already have a bunch of my fridge 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:28.800 here it is keto cheesecake shopping list no cream cheese I am not keto currently but I have been in 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:34.720 the past and I've made a lot of cheesecakes and I can confirm this looks realistic enough but what 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:41.120 about how much I need of each thing kind of a gap another AI feature is clear calling so we're 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:47.120 gonna see how the person using the pixel sounds when they are vacuuming so why don't you take 00:06:47.760 --> 00:06:55.520 the phone and the vacuum Jake bell yes sir and I'll take your iPhone I'm vacuuming outside 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:00.960 just vacuuming the sidewalk your vacuuming right now I'm vacuuming right now I'm gonna stop talking 00:07:00.960 --> 00:07:08.400 you can see if you can hear it I still don't hear me vacuuming no not at all I'm vacuuming 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:14.720 that is actually and awesome that's amazing compare that to this other recording where it's off 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:20.000 I'm talking I'm talking in the vacuuming Google did announce another feature called call notes that 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:25.840 I wanted to try you would get to it but during a call by hitting the more button and pressing the 00:07:25.840 --> 00:07:30.480 button right there for it but it's not available it might be because we're in Canada but unfortunately 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:35.040 we can't use it it doesn't just transcribe your call actually gives a summary so for that call 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:40.960 it would have said something like Jake is vacuuming and describes the quality of the call to James 00:07:40.960 --> 00:07:46.000 something like that this is actually a feature that iOS 18 is gonna have as well and so those of 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:51.040 you on the beta might be using it already I would love to show you but I'm sorry next I want to see 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:56.800 how sweet the video quality is when I'm zoomed into 5x on the pro model so let's hit a video 00:07:56.800 --> 00:08:04.640 let's look at these beautiful gentlemen over here boom I'm zoomed in now I did get a toast 00:08:04.640 --> 00:08:10.240 that came up and said that frame rate was reduced when I was super zoomed and you can definitely see 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:15.440 a lot of jitter in the viewfinder as I moved around it's actually super whack and I'm hoping it 00:08:15.440 --> 00:08:20.880 doesn't appear in the final video so let's check all right here it is and the jitter is definitely 00:08:20.880 --> 00:08:25.920 still in the final video there's another thing I want to try called video boost where you send the 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:31.680 processing of a video off to Google servers for some time and it makes a lot of things better 00:08:31.760 --> 00:08:38.000 including the clarity of 20x videos so let's zoom into Jake bell's face 00:08:41.280 --> 00:08:47.920 and processing is finally done and it's way better it's not perfect but it is way better 00:08:47.920 --> 00:08:53.040 also here's a bunch of photos taken with both phones and in pixel tradition they look great 00:08:53.040 --> 00:08:58.080 one of the design changes they had this time around was a large vapor chamber to help cool the 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:03.040 phone and it turns out that doesn't make a difference whether you get a large pro or just 00:09:03.040 --> 00:09:09.040 a smaller non-pro because both these phones performed almost identically in genshin impact 00:09:09.040 --> 00:09:15.040 getting 46 average FPS and 45 average FPS and even the one percent lows were within one frame 00:09:15.040 --> 00:09:20.480 of each other at 40 and 39 not a stunning result would like to get 60 the game was on a high preset 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:27.440 and the tensor g4 is not really a gaming optimized chip so if you're a huge gamer this might not be 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:33.040 the phone for you as for battery tests we did not do a battery longevity test but what we did do 00:09:33.040 --> 00:09:39.440 is a how long does it take to charge tests we did lots of those it basically 30 minutes will get 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:44.800 you 50 battery on either of these phones despite them having different battery sizes and it takes 00:09:44.800 --> 00:09:50.240 about an hour and a half to get a hundred percent note though that that is with a 30 watt charger 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:54.560 and as i said before these are available 45 watt chargers so expect those times to be 00:09:54.560 --> 00:10:00.560 significantly shorter if you do opt to buy a larger charging adapter or wall wart now let's 00:10:00.560 --> 00:10:09.040 talk price and worth the cheapest one is 800 bucks to go to the pro it's another 200 bucks at a 00:10:09.040 --> 00:10:16.960 thousand to go up in size an additional $100 for $1100 now the thing that makes it difficult to 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:23.520 assess the value of this phone this phone that is marketed as being an ai phone is two things 00:10:23.520 --> 00:10:31.920 number one i can get the gemini app on my old pixel how many of these cool features that i want this 00:10:31.920 --> 00:10:35.840 phone because of are going to be tripling down to my phone or maybe i can even do now 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:39.280 definitely some of them and the second thing is that some of these new ai features you're 00:10:39.280 --> 00:10:47.840 going to need to have a premium gemini ai google one account which the pro models do come with a 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:55.280 year of for free free i don't know which features require that subscription and i don't know how 00:10:55.280 --> 00:11:01.680 sticky they'll get by the time that free trial expires such that i'm very disappointed and 00:11:02.560 --> 00:11:07.840 really feel compelled to keep paying a subscription i don't want to pay a subscription and so that 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:12.560 just makes it really hard to assess whether you need to upgrade at all and if you do do you need 00:11:12.560 --> 00:11:18.720 to have the subscription i don't know you guys just wait till you break your screen i guess as 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:25.600 always but let's say you do upgrade should you get the pro or the regular one i mean the decision 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:30.000 to get the largest screen that's just up to you do you want a big phone 100 bucks but pro versus 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:36.800 non-pro that's coming down to more RAM the 5x telephoto slightly different industrial design 00:11:36.800 --> 00:11:42.240 brighter screen if you're outdoors a lot selfie cam that says more megapixels on the pro 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:46.720 stuff you guys why don't you let me know in the comments whether you think that $200 delta is 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:54.000 worth it in this case why rata why don't you watch our video on the samsung s24 i mean you'd be 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:57.360 remiss if you didn't at least look at that phone if you're in the market for one of these right