For the past couple of years the Pixel lineup has gotten cases from Carved, a brand producing works of art through phone cases made from real wood. This year, Carved is back for the Pixel 9 series both with its Live Edge cases and, finally, its more affordable standard cases.
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Google’s lineup of Pixel 9 phones is admittedly a little confusing. The Pixel 9 is the base model, as one would expect, but the differences between it and the Pro model aren’t quite so obvious with a new size change.
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The Pixel 9 Pro XL is not Google’s highest-end device, nor its most exciting in the 2024 lineup. But after a week using it, I’m convinced it might be the best Pixel of the Tensor era, and that’s just based on first impressions.
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As Pixel 9 pre-orders begin arriving at your door, the unboxing experience isn’t what it once was. Since 2021, Google has ditched the charger, skipped the extras, and now even the plastic has been omitted—here’s what comes in the Pixel 9 box.
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The best applications of AI on the Pixel 9 Pro let people benefit from what large language models (LLMs) are good at — summarization, natural language/multimodal understanding, classification, etc. — without having to enter a prompt. The fact that Google identified this best practice is promising as the underlying hardware admirably provides premium hardware in a compact form factor.
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Ahead of the launch on Thursday, Google has published the Android 14 factory images for the first three phones in the Pixel 9 series.
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Google’s switch to Tensor chips in the Pixel lineup has been overall pretty good, despite plenty of hiccups, but one of the loudest complaints has been how Google’s chips simply don’t compare when put through a benchmark. That’s not changing with Tensor G4 because Google said it developed the Pixel 9 chip with real-world improvements in mind.
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The earliest Pixel 9 pre-orders are shipping from August 22, but with 4 devices to choose from, here’s what you told us you have coming later this week.
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Back in July, the Google Store already teased a pre-order gift for Australia, Japan, and Singapore. We now know it’s an “exclusive design sketch poster” for the Pixel 9 Pro series.
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One of the big new features of the Google Pixel 9 series is Satellite SOS, a feature that will be available at launch, but might not work exactly how you think.
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Made by Google has come and gone and now pre-orders are live for the Pixel 9 series – but which did you go for?
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Bellroy is one of the longest-running Made for Google brands, and the company is gearing up for the launch of the Pixel 9 series with a new set of cases that includes a built-in magnet ring.
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Google’s new Pixel 9 series has arrived and, with it, an exciting first for the series. Both the base Pixel 9 and the Pixel 9 Pro can use the same cases interchangeably.
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The Google Store has a bunch of new accessories to go with the Pixel 9 series, including a couple of magnetic wallets that don’t actually work with the new phones unless you also buy a case.
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The Grip case has been one of our favorite phone cases over the years. Dbrand just launched a new version for the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL.
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The Google Pixel 9 series is here, and one of the biggest upgrades it delivers is the use of a new ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, and it’s the same one used in Samsung Galaxy devices.
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Google is offering some of its highest trade-in values to date on the Pixel 9 series, with deals on the Google Store offering up to $760 depending on what you’re getting.
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The Pixel 9 series is officially available to pre-order. The new series brings a refreshing new design, is capable of more AI, and even offers a new size variant – the Pixel 9 Pro XL. If you plan on pre-ordering, this guide will help you narrow down your options and find the best deal.
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The Pixel 9 series has officially been unveiled with several important new camera features and upgrades. Here’s everything new.
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The Qi2 charging standard is a big deal, but it’s seen very minimal adoption thus far. We thought that there was a good chance the Google Pixel 9 series would adopt Qi2, but that’s sadly not the case.
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After the official launch keynote, the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL are now available to pre-order in 32 countries across the globe – the most for a Pixel ever.
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Google says a big focus of Pixel design is now on ensuring the devices work well with cases, but looking back at last year, the official cases were the problem. For the Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Google has fixed the biggest problem of its official cases.
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Traditional smartphones are getting a little boring. After nearly a couple of decades of producing these devices, it almost feels like we’re running out of ideas to make everything feel different because the entire industry has reached a point of maturity. But, with the Pixel 9 series, Google is showing how to do that in all of the right ways.
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The Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL have officially been unveiled as the first Pro-series split in the history of Google’s smartphone lineup.
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