Google Pixel 9 review

23 August 2024


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  • Anonymous
  • JHY
  • 23 Aug 2024

"You can also turn off the stabilization entirely if you have other measures in place to ensure steady footage."
I always turn Google's stabilization off. As far as I know (at least on my Pixel 7 Pro), Google crops when you turn on stabilization. In other words: There is no 4k video when stabilization is on, it just upcales to 4k.

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    • Anonymous
    • JHY
    • 23 Aug 2024

    "There's no 8K on the plain Pixel."

    There's also no 8k on the Pixel 9 Pro XL. It can only upscale(!) 4k to 8k via the cloud. You could do the same thing with any phone: Record a 4k video and use a software that upscales the video to 8k.

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      • Anonymous
      • 39x
      • 23 Aug 2024

      CamoGeko-XDA, 23 Aug 20244.3 stars for a phone with a soc slower than Exynos 2400 an... moreYou can always tell which companies have leverage and which don't.

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        • Anonymous
        • JHY
        • 23 Aug 2024

        "so the Pixel 9 can only shoot binned photos - hardly an issue"
        Hardly an issue? Whenever a camera uses a 50 megapixel sensor and advertises a 50 megapixel sensor, it should also output 50 megapixel images, otherwise it's extremely misleading. Most people don't understand that analog pixel binning does NOT mean downsampling a demosaiced high resolution image. It means that the sensor is read out as a low resolution sensor by combining charges from the pixels. Then the sensor behaves exactly like a low resolution Bayer sensor.
        The selfie camera of the Pixel 9 Pro XL even only has a maximum resolution of 10.0 megapixel instead of 42 (due to cropping and binning) and even uses binning when you zoom with the selfie camera.

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          • Nikojas
          • 8pJ
          • 23 Aug 2024

          Anonymous, 23 Aug 2024Heft can be a good thing as to build quality. 198 grams ... moreIs this a fact or just speculation? Any actual users can comment on signal strength?

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            • Shahar
            • nRr
            • 23 Aug 2024

            I acru belive the performance are lower than the pixel 8 pro, that is why Google chose to block any benchmark app.

              4.3 stars for a phone with a soc slower than Exynos 2400 and bezels the size of east coast. Very poor.

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                • Anonymous
                • Fek
                • 23 Aug 2024

                Heft can be a good thing as to build quality.

                198 grams is not that terribly bad, even for this size.

                Also saying this phone is big as a con is just looking for cons, there are many bigger phones that never had that claim in their reviews.

                You want a con? The modem ia still just as bad but a tad bit more efficient than the old ones was.

                Also the signal is just as bad.

                Both worse than on a Exynos based Samsung, the irony.

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                  • Anonymous
                  • Tsr
                  • 23 Aug 2024

                  Around 71% stability in 3D mark and a bit more for the CPU.

                  The benchmarks they use in these reviews don't work and that is true, but not all of them don't work.

                  Anyhow, nobody should be buying Pixels for their performance, for that there are better options.

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