Made by Google 2024 Updates: Google unveiled the Pixel 9 series, the 9 Pro Fold, Pixel Watch 3, Pixel Buds Pro 2

Google launched the Pixel Buds Pro 2 powered with the new Tensor A1 chip which Google claims to have helped them reduce the buds size by 27% as well as make them lighter while increasing performance and battery life. It also ships with Gemini.

The Pixel Buds Pro 2 have 11 mm drivers. The earbuds offer 30 hours playtime with the case and 8 hours with ANC. 

The earbuds can use AI to pause music when users start speaking or call and put it on transparency mode. It resumes back to preset when the call or speaking ends.

The Pixel Watch 3 comes with an Actua screen capable of peak brightness of up to 2,000 nits while the refresh rate oscillates between 1 to 60 Hz.

Google claims a day of battery life with always-on display, and can last up to 36 hours in battery saver mode with Pixel Watch 3. It will automatically go into the battery saver mode when it hits 15% battery.

Additionally, the watch comes with enhanced heart rate tracking, cardio load tracking, heart rate variability, SpO2, running, and cycling, etc The Google Watch 3 will now be available in 41 mm and 45 mm sizes..

The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold features a 6.3 inch Actua cover screen with 1080 x 2424 resolution at 422 ppi and 20:9 aspect ratio. It has a peak brightness of 2,700 nits. The refresh rate varies between 60 to 120 Hz.

The Pixel 9 Pro Fold will come with an 8-inch main Super Actua LTPO OLED screen with 2076 x 2152 resolution at 373 ppi. It has similar brightness as cover but a wider refresh rate from 1 to 120 Hz. 

The new Pixel 9 Pro comes with a 6.3 inch LTPO OLED Super Actua display with 1280 x 2856 resolution at 495 ppi and up to 120 Hz refresh rate which drops to 1 Hz. The display reaches a peak brightness of 3,000 nits.

Meanwhile, the Pixel 9 Pro XL comes with a 6.8 inch LTPO OLED Super Actua display with 1344 x 2992 resolution at 486 ppi and similar refresh rate as 9 Pro. 

The device boast of Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2 protection at front and back. The device comes with a 50 MP main camera along with a 48 MP telephoto lens with 5x zoom and a 48 MP ultrawide sensor which act as macro.

Both the devices come with Pixel 9 Pro XL ships with a 5,060 mAh cell. 

The new Pixel 9 series smartphones will ship with Android 14 out-of-the-box and 7 years of guaranteed OS and security updates.

The Pixel 9 comes with a 6.1-inch OLED Actua display with 1080 x 2424 resolution at 422 ppi, and up to 2,700 nits peak brightness refreshing at 120 Hz which goes down to 60 Hz.

In the camera department, the Google Pixel 9 comes packed with a a 50 MP main camera and a 48 MP ultrawide camera. It has a 10.5 MP front camera for selfies.

The device comes backed with a 4,700 mAh battery which supports 45 W charging. 

The camera app is getting a major update with the Pixel 9 series. The devices will come with HDR+ pipeline to improve image quality allowing panorama photos to be converted into Night Sight. 

The camera also comes with add me feature, which allows users to add individuals to images, and ‘Made you look feature’, which grabs the attention of the subject to get their “perfect picture”. 

The Pixel series devices will come with enhanced AI features, including a Pixel Studio app for creating images with prompts, a AI-enabled weather app, call notes, and the ability to recall where and when a screenshot was taken. 

The Pixel 9 Pro Fold will come with a 8-inch Super Actua display, which the company says is one of the thinnest in the world. 

All the Google 9 series devices will come with the Google Tensor G4 chipsets. Which is optimised for Google latest on-device AI capabilities. The chipset is capable of creating 45 tokens per second, which Google claims is the fastest in the industry. 

Google’s Jess Carpenter and Dave Citron, demo the Gemini AI features, including, writing emails based on voice prompts, create calendar entries, create a playlist on YouTube. 

However, during the live demo, when trying to use Gemini AI to book concert tickets, it took a couple of tries for the AI to complete the task.

With Gemini Live, users can have conversations, interrupt, or change topics with the AI assistant. It will be available to Gemini Advanced subscribers Gemini live to start rolling out to Android users starting with Pixel and Samsung devices, starting today. 

Google’s Gemini AI assistant will work on-device and is the world’s most widely-available AI, Sameer Samat, president of the Android Ecosystem said.

The Gemini Nano uses Google’s Tensor chipsets to perform features like summarize in recorder and smart reply in Gboard. 

Osterloh, starts the live with AI. He claims Google is in the Gemini era with almost all devices integrating AI. Says AI is being designed for everyone.

Google started the live event with a tribute to former YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, She passed away a few days ago. 

Google kicked off the ‘Made by Google’ 2024 event with Rick Osterloh, Senior Vice President overseeing Google’s Devices & Services efforts, taking the stage and talking about the advancements the company has made in AI over the year. 

The ‘Made by Google’ event will kick off at 10:30 PM IST and will be live-streamed on the company’s “Made By Google” YouTube channel. 

The company will also host a launch event on August 14 to unveil the India-specific announcements regarding the Pixel 9 series.

The new Pixel Buds Pro 2 are expected to be powered by the Tensor A1, the company’s first Tensor audio chip. The chipset is expected to enable the earbuds to deliver twice the ANC improvement plus new AI features.

The Pixel Buds Pro 2 is also expected to have a brand-new AI-powered conversation detection feature that automatically pauses playback when it detects the user speaking. Another addition is a hearing wellness feature where AI will detect how loud the user has been listening to music over time so they can notify them to adjust the volume. 

Meanwhile, the the Pixel Watch 3 could come with an improved battery life as well as new fitness and health-related features.

Earlier this week, Google announced that it has started rolling out the first batch of Pixel 8 smartphones made in India. This announcement came just a day ahead of its new Pixel 9 series global launch. 

The Alphabet-owned company made this news public on X, formerly Twitter, thanking the Minister for IT and Electronics, Ashwini Vaishnaw.

On the Indian website, Google shared partial photos of the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, the first of Google’s foldables to come to India, as well as the Pixel 9 Pro. The expected models are expected to ship with Android 15 out of the box. The latest iteration of Android 15 is expected to come with enhanced Gemini AI features.