Google Pixel 9 Professional Evaluation: A Pocketable Champion

2024 is the 12 months Google lastly launched its complete vary of Pixel gadgets in India, together with the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Professional, Pixel 9 Professional XL, and Pixel 9 Professional Fold. Briefly, this 12 months, shoppers have loads of Pixel gadgets to select from, relying on the price range. Beginning at Rs. 79,999 for the bottom Pixel 9 and going all the best way to Rs. 172,999 for the book-style Pixel 9 Professional Fold.

On paper, the Pixel 9 Professional and 9 Professional XL would possibly solely differ by way of show dimension and battery, however the actual distinction lies in on a regular basis use. One is compact to slot in the smallest pockets and handy to make use of with one hand, whereas the opposite is large at 6.8 inches. This 12 months, Google added one telephone to its Pixel lineup, which is the Pixel 9 Professional, which we are going to assessment right here. Very like how Apple introduced all of the bells and whistles from its Professional Max mannequin to Professional this 12 months, Google additionally tries to suit all of the firepower within the compact physique of the Pixel 9 Professional. So, who ought to precisely purchase this one or take into account an alternate flagship? I attempt to reply this in my assessment.

Google Pixel 9 Professional Design: Compact type wins

• Dimensions – 152.8mm x 72mm x 8.5mm
• Weight – 199 grams
• Sturdiness – IP68 mud and water resistance

The Pixel 9 collection lastly ditches the bar-style rear again that housed the digital camera in a method that was liked and hated by some. The excellent news is that there is a new island placement on the rear for cameras, and it appears to be like mature. It’s straightforward on the eyes and makes the brand new Pixels shine in a crowded market with no distinct design besides the iPhones.

The Pixel 9 Professional is available in 4 color selections

 

I just like the matte again panel and shiny body end on the Pixel 9 Professional. Due to the matte remedy, the again is not a fingerprint magnet; nevertheless, it’s a slippery telephone. I unintentionally dropped it twice throughout this assessment, however fortunately, the 9 Professional survived each drops with out scratches. In contrast to the iPhone 16 Plus (Evaluation), the Google Pixel 9 Professional would not wobble on a flat floor primarily as a result of the centre-aligned island on the again retains it even.

The Pixel 9 Professional packs a 4700mAh battery

 

Through the years, the Pixels have developed their design language, and the brand new 9 collection in some way maintains that in a great way. The polished end steel body feels stable within the hand, and Google has added further safety by utilizing Gorilla Glass Victus 2 on each back and front panels.

At underneath 200 grams, the Pixel 9 Professional is a useful telephone with an excellent weight distribution. The 8.5mm thickness can be first rate. There’s IP68 mud and water resistance on board for peace of thoughts.

It weighs 199 grams

 

The Pixel 9 Professional beats the 9 Professional XL in comfort. The compact type issue is simple to make use of and one thing that is simpler to reside with on daily basis. I’d choose this over most massive telephones due to the one-hand utilization as effectively, and it nails the fundamentals fairly comfortably—the convenience of checking notifications, typing, dialling numbers, and doing every thing with only one hand. Every thing else in design is minimalistic, which can develop on you.

When it comes to colors, Google has all the time provided completely different shades, and this 12 months, the lineup is fascinating. The Pixel 9 Professional is on the market in Rose Quartz, Hazel, Obsidian, and Porcelain – the one I obtained for the assessment. General, the Pixel 9 Professional seems like a stable machine and a premium one, too.

The Pixel 9 is a compact machine that is handy to make use of with only one hand

 

Google Pixel 9 Professional Show: Flagship-grade

• Show – 6.3-inch, 1280×2856 pixels, 1Hz – 120Hz
• Show Kind – Flat, LTPO, OLED
• Show safety – Gorilla Glass Victus 2 (entrance and rear panels)

The smartphone has a superb show providing crisp, correct and pure colors. The Pixel 9 Professional, in comparison with the Pixel 8, packs an even bigger show – 6.3 vs 6.2 inches. The bezels across the show additionally appear slim, and the claimed screen-to-body ratio stands at 87 %. I favored the general color rendering, and you’ll love watching HDR movies on the show. With a peak brightness of 3000nits, the Pixel 9 Professional is vivid outdoor, and daylight legibility isn’t an issue.

The telephone gives a peak brightness of 3000nits

 

Due to the compact dimension, the Pixel 9 Professional is considered one of my most popular gadgets for multimedia utilization and gives a good 495PPI pixel density. With Widevine L1 certification, Pixel 9 Professional streamed Full-HD decision Netflix reveals on demand. This 12 months, Google has shifted to an ultrasonic fingerprint scanner, which is fast and virtually flawless for on a regular basis use. The punch gap for selfies is nearly non-distracting whereas watching movies or taking part in video games.

The bezels across the show are narrower in comparison with the Pixel 8 Professional

 

Google Pixel 9 Professional Efficiency: Hits and misses

• Google Tensor G4
• Titan M2 safety coprocessor
• 16GB RAM and 256GB storage

When it comes to uncooked efficiency, the Pixel 9 Professional would not supply the best possible, and also you guessed it proper, it will not beat telephones in the identical worth bracket. Google Tensor G4 is sweet for searching, multitasking, and working Google’s suite of AI apps. Nonetheless, in the case of gaming and even graphic-intensive picture or video enhancing, the Pixel 9 Professional disappoints. However I am not shocked, because the Pixels have by no means been marketed as gaming or performance-driven gadgets. Throughout my assessment, the Tensor G4 dealt with gentle picture enhancing and will run AI options with out stutters. The Pixel 9 Professional would not get scorching throughout intensive duties because of wonderful warmth optimisations. Like throughout our artificial benchmark exams, the Pixel 9 Professional dealt with exams effectively and beneath are the outcomes to your reference.

The pure Android expertise is another excuse many desire Pixels over different Android gadgets. The Pixel 9 Professional runs Android 14 out-of-the-box and comes with Gemini (which I’ll discuss in a bit). These days, Google has been pushing its AI prowess underneath the identify Gemini, and it looks like an even bigger push than what we’ve got seen in all these years. It’s larger than how Google pushed Search, however I am not shocked. AI is the following massive factor for smartphones and empowers customers to do far more in much less time. As anticipated, the software program expertise is fluid, and the Pixel UI is clear of bloatware, Pixel’s largest benefit over rivals.

Google Tensor G4 powers the Pixel 9 Professional

 

Whereas reviewing, I downloaded the Android 15 replace, which was largely just like Android 14, with some added options, like Theft Detection Lock and Personal Area. Amongst all new options, the App Archiving must be my Android 15 choose, a characteristic introduced final 12 months by Google that’s solely making its method as a system-wide possibility with the most recent replace. The characteristic lets customers save storage on an app that is used not often.

Due to the shape issue, the Pixel 9 Professional is my go-to machine for rapidly typing emails and has one of many first rate haptic motors for typing suggestions. The loudspeaker is a loud one and is superb for a mid-size room. As talked about above, the Pixel 9 Professional was my machine choose for many of my multimedia wants, because of the show high quality and speaker output. The 9 Professional can connect with cellular networks in areas like a basement the place different telephones battle to be related to a community. The decision high quality is first rate on the machine, and we had no issues with 5G on each Airtel and Jio networks.

It encompasses a 42-megapixel selfie digital camera

 

Google Pixel 9 Professional AI

2024 has been the 12 months of AI push for smartphone producers, so why ought to Google maintain again? The Pixel 9 collection comes with a number of AI options. The primary is the Gemini assistant, which makes use of multimodal fashions with which customers can work together by way of voice, textual content, or photos. The corporate added an all-new Add Me characteristic to the digital camera, which can by no means allow you to miss out on group pictures with the assistance of AI. The Tremendous Res Zoom, a characteristic that has been a part of Pixels ever since Pixel 3, has been improved and gives high-quality zoom as much as 20x. Pixel 9 collection will get the all-new Pixel Studio, a picture generator app powered by what Google calls an on-device diffusion mannequin working on Tensor G4 and Imagen 3 text-to-image mannequin. There are extra additions, like the brand new Climate app that will get AI enhancements, Maintain Notes that integrates Gemini, and Pixel Screenshots to organise screenshots on the machine. We have now mentioned AI capabilities on the brand new Pixels in our Pixel 9 Professional XL assessment, so you may learn it right here.

Pixel Studio makes use of generative AI to carry creativeness to life

 

Google Pixel 9 Professional Digicam: “Pixel-able”

• 50-megapixel main digital camera
• 48-megapixel ultra-wide and 48-megapixel telephoto
• 42-megapixel selfie digital camera

Pixel 9 packs the identical digital camera setup as its greater sibling, the Pixel 9 Professional XL. Leaping straight to digital camera outcomes, the daylight photographs on the 9 Professional come out crisp with pure colors (true-to-life colors) and loads of particulars. The dynamic vary is superb in a number of the samples I captured, and pores and skin tones are bang-on. Portraits are wonderful, and blur is dealt with splendidly. The telephoto digital camera is nice and would not disappoint in a number of the difficult conditions. I managed to seize some wonderful 5x pictures.

Pixel 9 Professional comes with a triple digital camera setup

 

The ultrawide digital camera on the 9 Professional additionally shines. It captured some actually good photographs throughout digital camera exams, which you’ll be able to see beneath. Macro lovers can make the most of 9 Professional’s ultrawide digital camera, although Samsung has performed higher in macro photographs this 12 months. The Pixels are a league aside in the case of digital camera comparisons, be it with Samsung or an iPhone.

 

Daylight samples from the first digital camera (faucet photographs to develop)

Shut-up shot utilizing ultrawide digital camera (faucet picture to develop)

 

 

Low-light images is one other spotlight of the 9 Professional. I clicked some wonderful low-light photographs with loads of particulars, managed noise, and conserving colors in test. Pixel’s computerized evening mode labored effectively for me. After all, you may take issues into your management and tweak settings to get higher outcomes. The portraits come out good, although, there’s scope of enchancment. 

 

Low-light digital camera samples (faucet picture to develop)

Portrait shot in low gentle (faucet picture to develop)

 

 

The selfie digital camera on the 9 Professional is wonderful; lastly, the entrance digital camera improve has paid off—wonderful pores and skin tones captured in several gentle circumstances. On the video entrance, the Pixel 9 Professional has improved vastly in comparison with the Pixel 8 Professional. Nonetheless, it’s not pretty much as good for movies because the iPhone for the time being.

Pictures taken utilizing 1x, 0.5x, 2x and 5x (faucet picture to develop)

Low gentle photographs taken in 1x, 0.5, 2x and 5x (faucet picture to develop)

 

 

 

Google Pixel 9 Professional Battery: Respectable

• 4700mAh battery
• As much as 55% charging in about half-hour
• Wi-fi charging assist

Don’t underestimate the Pixel 9 Professional simply due to its sheer dimension. In my exams, I discovered the Pixel 9 Professional to be a succesful machine by way of battery efficiency. With heavy utilization, the Pixel 9 Professional lasted a complete day with 15-20 % left until the tip of the day. Whereas with medium utilization, the telephone can simply last as long as 36 hours.

Pixel 9 Professional comes with fast-charging assist

 

The Pixel 9 Professional would not ship with a charger like modern-day flagships. It helps 27W wired charging and as much as 15W wi-fi charging. I examined the telephone with a 45W charger, and it matched the model’s claimed quick charging figures. The telephone, nevertheless, takes roughly 100 minutes to cost absolutely.

The Pixel 9 Professional is a tool that may outshine many compact flagships on the market

 

Google Pixel 9 Professional Verdict

The Pixel 9 Professional is a wonderful selection for individuals who need Pixel-like digital camera prowess. Its compact type issue is the most important spotlight, and the great factor is that Google this 12 months hasn’t saved marquee options restricted to 9 Professional XL. You get all of the bells and whistles of the larger sibling at a lesser worth with the 9 Professional. The battery shocked me with its backup, and it shines in most eventualities. The prolonged software program assist ought to give potential patrons confidence.

The Pixel 9 Professional comes with a single 16GB RAM and 256GB storage configuration

 

The one downgrade is the shortage of professional quality efficiency credentials, which you’ll be able to expertise solely when gaming or enhancing movies or pictures on the machine. Lengthy factor quick, the place the chipset is required to deal with graphic-intensive duties is the place 9 Professional feels it stays behind the competitors. It is excessive time that Google opts for Snapdragon or MediaTek for its chipset necessities, as Tensor can not outrun its closest rivals.

In order for you the very best digital camera expertise, you may’t go flawed with the Pixel 9 Professional, however whenever you add gaming and different graphics-intensive duties, I’ve to ask you to look one other method.

At Rs. 109,999, the Pixel 9 Professional feels barely costly for what it gives, however you may take into account it as a premium for all of the top-tier Google options arriving this 12 months, together with AI.

When speaking about options, the Pixel 9 (Evaluation) is unquestionably the closest sibling you may take into account, minus some options. The Samsung Galaxy S24+ (Evaluation) can be nearer to the Pixel 9 Professional by way of packaging, whereas you too can take a look at the iPhone 16 Professional, which is barely dearer.