On the early morning of August 14th Beijing time, Google held a large-scale hardware launch event called "Made by Google" at its headquarters in Shanjing City, officially releasing the Pixel 9 series phones and the latest AI features.
In terms of mobile phones, the Google Pixel 9 series has a total of three full screen phones - Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL, as well as a foldable phone called Pixel 9 Pro Fold. All new phones are equipped with Google's self-developed Tensor G4 chip. The starting memory capacity of the new Google phone is 12GB, and the memory capacity of the two Pro phones is 16GB.
The three phones released this time are all equipped with a 50 megapixel wide-angle lens and a 48 megapixel ultra wide angle lens. The Pro version adds a 48 megapixel ultra wide angle lens, supporting 5x optical zoom and 30x ultra-high resolution digital zoom. The Pro series phones will also upgrade their front facing selfie camera to 42 million pixels.
The starting price for Pixel 9 is $799, while the starting prices for Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL are $999 and $1099, respectively. The starting price for Google's second foldable phone, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, reaches $1799.
At the same time, Google introduced the company's AI layout at the press conference. Google announced that users who purchase Pro series phones can receive a one-year Gemini Advanced subscription, which allows them to use Gemini Live features. The company's newly released Google Watch and TWS earphones also support Gemini Live functionality.
Google has also launched the Pixel Screenshots app, which can call the device AI model Gemini Nano to analyze and organize the content in phone screenshots. The company also released a text to image software called Pixel Studio, which is based on device models and cloud Imagen 3 text to image models.
It is worth noting that Google has released an AI photo taking feature. Users can use a new feature called "Add Me" to have AI combine photos of people from different photos into one.