A battle of Android’s greatest telephones

Google simply unveiled the Pixel 9 Professional XL smartphone throughout its Made by Google occasion and, boy oh boy, is it a doozy. It is a bigger model of the Pixel 9 Professional. It ships with the brand-new Tensor G4 processor and 16GB of RAM. As with most fashionable handsets, it is designed for AI duties and ships with a one-year subscription to Google’s One AI Premium Plan. This permits for unfettered entry to Google Gemini.

The digital camera system has been improved, and Pixel telephones had been already fairly dang good at snapping images and capturing video. There’s a triple rear digital camera, and an upgraded 42 MP entrance digital camera. Footage will be algorithmically enhanced to 8K and the corporate is lastly bringing Tremendous Res Zoom to movies.

It’s essential to notice that the XL is actually only a bigger model of the Pixel 9 Professional. Past barely sooner charging and an even bigger show, there aren’t actually any options to set it other than its smaller cousin. That show, nonetheless, is fairly good. It’s a 6.8-inch Tremendous Actua OLED display that actually pops, with Google promising it exhibits “true-to-life colours, even in direct daylight.” It is because the brightness stage has ticked up a bit to three,000 nits. The Pixel 9 Professional XL begins at $1,100, and can be accessible in 4 colours. These embody obsidian, rose quartz and hazel.

Regardless of not being launched but, the Pixel 9 Professional XL already faces some stiff competitors. The Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely launched again in January and has confirmed itself to be a bona-fide hit. We gave it excessive marks in our official assessment, praising the helpful AI instruments, sturdy titanium body, wonderful battery life and shiny show. However how does it stack up towards the just-revealed Pixel 9 Professional XL? Let’s examine specs.