The Pixel 9 Pro teaser was more about AI than the phone

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We got a new video showing off the Pixel 9 Pro, and guess what, it’s not a leak! After we’ve seen this device leaked like it was nobody’s business, Google finally showed off a teaser for the Pixel 9 Pro. Needless to say, it confirms the new design with the Bender-style camera bump and flat sides.

We’re not far off from the company’s latest Pixel event. We all had our calendars marked for October earlier this year, but the company surprised us. Google is going to have an event in August, right between Galaxy Unpacked and Apple’s iPhone event. We appreciate Google adding some excitement to the annual mid-year tech news lull, but we’re wondering if this is a good move. In any case, the event will go down on August 13th.

Google’s AI teaser had a Pixel 9 Pro play a cameo

After all of the leaks, we finally have an official look at the Pixel 9 Pro. In the teaser, we see some text being put into Gemini. The “person” is generating a break-up letter to their old phone. We don’t see any text as the result. Rather, we see the Pixel 9 in all its Googly glory.

We see three cameras in the visor along with the flash and what we think is the next-generation temperature sensor on the right side. We also see that the camera visor does jut straight from the phone’s back. We’re not sure how it’s going to look in real life. It might be like the camera visor on the Pixel 6 or even the Nexus 6P. Those looked much more significant in pictures/videos than they actually were.

While this is a nice teaser, Google seems to have made it more about AI. We know that the company is an AI company, but the phone was only visible for about 5 seconds in the 30-second ad. Even when the phone is visible, we see the text “Oh hi, AI.”

In any case, we’re less than a month away from the official announcement, so mark your calendars!

2024-07-19 15:08:10