Google Pixel 9 review
- jiyen235
- XQQ
- 23 Aug 2024
When the iPhone is quicker to charge, you know you done goofed up lmao like yeah I know the battery is bigger on the pixel but the iPhone's battery life is at least on par, if not better than the pixel.
Also I find it funny that this is another year of the smaller pixel being better in terms of battery. Google stubbornly refuses to let go of the 5k mah battery of the Pixel Pro like bro you know your phones aren't as efficient, at least make up for it with larger batteries? They don't put more efficient chips and neither do they increase the battery size, a double whammy. The base Pixel 9 is the best example for why Google should increase the battery size, look at its battery life compared to the past one and even the S24, it's quite good and balanced overall. That's respectable.
It's just the price that's not cool. The Pixel 9 is more expensive than the base S24 at its MSRP. The S24 has some insane discounts now and how does Google expect to compete with that? Apple has better videography, more performance and a different ecosystem and the only thing Google has is 120 hz which the average person won't care about much so it's tough for Google to pull people from iPhones.
Google either has an ego, thinking they're so unique and special that they deserve the money or they're just lost, doing random stuff so as to not "tarnish" the brand image with cheaper phones. I think no one would disagree with me when I say that the Pixel 7 and Pixel 6 were some of the best phones of the time in terms of value, after updates, because they had nice cams and a flagship basically for a much lower price. The Oneplus 11R and the Pixel 7 were comparatively priced where I lived and it was a no brainer for most. And now the Pixel 9 is more expensive than the S24, if they had put in a 5x telephoto? Maybe it'd have been worth it. But not like this.
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- Ahmed
- IYd
- 23 Aug 2024
I really want to go for a pixel phone but the processor stops me everytime.
I wish they could go with snapdragon next time
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- ashrobb
- LS$
- 23 Aug 2024
At least the Tensor G4 has proven to be more efficient than G3. I like the fact it is a compact phone, a little heavy for the size but still decent.
- A.C
- H0w
- 23 Aug 2024
I love the Pixel, I love the aesthetic, the design and everything, but... does the punch-hole actually look small to y'all? Because for me that's quite pretty huge, and the fact that it is located quite far away from the top bezel make it look funny.
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- Anonymous
- 6kd
- 23 Aug 2024
Would Google explain their "sold separately charger" (BS) charger being 45W but the phone charges only at 27W. Whats the point of the charger being over specsed. Even the XL or Fold doesn't utillice the chargers potentials
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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.
- CamoGeko-XDA
- AJX
- 23 Aug 2024
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.