• 📱 Google Pixel 9 Pro teased in new official video

• 📸 The camera ditches the ‘visor’ look for a fresh pill-shaped design

• ✨ Gemini AI is actually the big focus of this teaser video

• 📆 Pixel 9 launches on August 13, alongside the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold

We have reported on the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold plagued this week on the heels of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 release, but it’s worth noting that there’s also a very similar clip of the Google Pixel 9 Pro on YouTube. And yes, it does reveal new details.

Google’s video focuses on Gemini AI and its capabilities, but also briefly introduces the Google Pixel 9 Pro’s camera for the first time. It changes the wider camera view that was in the Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, Google Pixel 7 and 7 ProAnd Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro. It was transferred to the cheaper Google Pixel 7a And Pixel8a.

How has it changed? The Google Pixel 9 Pro has a sleeker camera module with a pill-shaped design. It appears to have the same number of cameras – three – for wide-angle, ultra-wide-angle, and telephoto photography and video.

Given the design change after three years, it’s possible we could see a specs upgrade over the standard 50MP camera. That could mean a new sensor or some simple tweaks to Google’s famed post-processing software.

The Shortcut will be reporting live from the Google Pixel 9 Pro launch event on August 13. We’ll be sure to spend as much time testing this smartphone as we do the Google Pixel 9 Pro Foldeven though foldable phones are new and exciting. Foldable phones are expensive and not for all consumers in 2024 – I get it.

Based on the Pixel lineup’s track record, I can tell you all about the potential pros and cons of the Pixel 9 Pro now, so you don’t have to wait for Google’s event. This should help you decide whether to buy the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra or wait for Apple’s iPhone 16These are the Google Pixel 9 Pro’s biggest rivals.

The cameras have been a highlight of the Google Pixel since I started reviewing it (and the Google Nexus phone before it). The addition of AI over the past year has enabled features like Best Take (face swapping) and Magic Editor (Photoshop-like wizardry baked into Google Photos). And those are the reasons to buy a Google Pixel phone over its competitors, Samsung and Apple.

Hopefully the emphasis on AI means Google has something new to say in the generative AI photo and video editing space with Gemini, as Samsung starts to catch up with AI photo editing for its Galaxy.

What Google needs to fix in its Pixel lineup is its chipset. It’s fine for AI tasks now, but gaming is where it lags, even behind cheaper Android phones that use the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset. So the company must be ramping up the possibilities of the rumored Google Tensor G4 chipset, especially since the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 is coming with a planned October announcement.

We’ll publish a full review once the Google Pixel 9 Pro is released, after the August 13 event. Google’s launch event came ahead of Apple’s iPhone 16 event, and no one saw that news coming, so we may still be in for some surprises.