As soon as this new machine was released, the garbage guys all over the world went crazy

As the saying goes, it's good.

How can a software company that doesn't want to make hardware products be a qualified Internet giant.

From Microsoft to Google, from Amazon to Spotify, basically as long as it is a well-known software company, there will always be attempts to launch its own hardware products.

But to be honest, the things made by these manufacturers will always be a little less interesting in terms of product power, most of them are not equipped and expensive, and the Amazon Fire series can only use price as the main selling point, and can hardly compete with other hardware products.

（Spotify Car thing，无人问津的车上串流播放器）

Among these products, Google's Pixel series used to be an outlier.

As the "son of Google", Google's Pixel series actually had a good reputation in the mobile phone industry, and it refuted the hardware-only industry at that time with software advantages such as "better algorithms" and "good system experience", and conquered the entire mobile photography industry with its own efforts.

However, since Google abandoned the Qualcomm chip on its own Pixel 6 in 2021 and switched to a semi-customized Tensor chip from Samsung, the entire product line has started to deteriorate.

The reason,Mainly because the Pixel series is indeed a little watery in terms of hardware,Whether it's the processor、Camera or speaker、Vibration motor and other configurations,Basically can't be compared with the domestic flagship,At the juncture when domestic manufacturers have opened the book of computational photography,The only remaining advantage of the Pixel series is the pure native system。

(Source: Google)

Despite the declining reputation, this does not prevent them from launching new products year after year.

No, it's only 2024, and last night, the well-known foreign media whistleblower OnLeaks came out to share the high-definition renders of Google's Pixel 9 series phones.

(Source: OnLeaks)

If there is one big difference between this generation of Pixel and its predecessor, it must be the appearance.

Starting with the Pixel 6 series, the overall design direction of the subsequent Pixels is basically the same, with a rounded body and a whole raised horizontal arrangement of camera modules.

When it comes to the Pixel 9 series, the front looks still rounded, and the back is still a whole raised horizontal arrangement of camera modules.

However, everything turned into a right-angled border!

(Source: OnLeaks)

Not only has the fuselage become a "trendy small vertical edge", but even the camera module has become an unusually abrupt protrusion.

Purely from the perspective of Xiaolei, a senior garbage guy, the design of the Pixel 9 series is definitely a proper regression, this time the recognition is full, but it is really ugly, and the design of the straight edge of the whole machine is even more predictable to the sparse grip.

It can only be said that even the fruit knows to add a little arc to the corners.

Well, Xiao Lei is a little unacceptable.

According to Onleaks, the Google Pixel 9 measures 152.8x71.9x8.5mm on three dimensions, including the raised part of the camera is 12.0mm.

The measurements of the previous generation are 150.5x70.8x8.9mm.

It can only be said that this design change is really better than not changing.

Although the official frontal photos have not yet been released, it is basically certain from the pictures exposed by Onleaks that both Pixel 9 series products will be equipped with straight screens.

The Pixel 9 features a small 6.1-inch vertical screen with an OLED screen with FHD+ resolution, while the Pixel 9 Pro features a 6.5-inch vertical screen design with a slightly smaller screen size than the existing Pixel 8 Pro (6.7-inch) and is expected to retain 2K resolution.

(Source: OnLeaks)

Of course, there is good news.

Judging from the exterior design, the Pixel 9 is likely to be the first product in the history of Google's Pixel series to be equipped with a standard version with a rear triple camera.

Although the exact parameters are still unclear, there is a high probability that an upright telephoto lens will be added, which is consistent with the aforementioned Zenfone 11 idea.

On the Pixel 9 Pro, Google may even go all out and add a variable aperture design to the main camera, which can control the amount of light coming in.

(Source: OnLeaks)

As for the processor, it is likely to be the Google Tensor G4 chip developed by Google and manufactured by Samsung.

According to industry insiders, the Google Tensor G4 chip will be produced using Samsung's third-generation 4nm process SF4P, which is the same as the Exynos 2400 process, and will be used in the Pixel 9 series of mobile phones released in September this year after completing quality inspection tests at a test factory in Taiwan.

It is worth mentioning that, according to the whistleblower @Conner, Tensor G4 has only undergone a small update in terms of CPU compared to Tensor G3, and the code name of the internally developed project has been upgraded from "Zuma" to "Zuma Pro", which is basically similar to the upgrade from Tensor G1 to Tensor G2.

(Source: X)

That's right, this magic machine is still expected to pull the crotch on the most critical processor.

Anyway, judging from the performance of previous generations of Tensor processors, let's not talk about the performance gap, let's solve all kinds of strange problems first.

Hawkers, anyway, Google, which relies on algorithms to eat, has always been "hardware is not enough, software makes up for it".

According to foreign media reports such as The Information and 9to5Google, the Google Pixel 9 series is expected to be equipped with a new exclusive assistant - "Google Pixie", which is based on Google's latest Gemini model.

According to the report, Pixie will become a more personalized Google assistant, with the goal of performing complex multimodal tasks, using Gmail, maps and other data from Google products on the Pixel family of phones to automatically recommend users the functional apps they need.

(图源:theverge)

It can only be said that there will only be more and more mobile phones with the main selling point of "AI" this year.

All in all, in addition to its own software AI function, the current Pixel series is indeed a bit far behind domestic Android phones.

As the benchmark product of the Android camp and the best development machine in theory, Google's performance in recent years has indeed been a bit stretched.

(图源:Pixel 8A)

While the hardware configuration of the Pixel 9 series has been reduced, the price is not necessarily much of a surprise.

If there is not much progress in AI functions, I don't know if it will be surpassed by other mobile phone manufacturers with their hardware advantages.

However, those who are interested in the Pixel series should go for the original Android experience.

It can only be said that the time has come to test the real grain noodles.