Google’s Pixel 11 lineup offer fewer hardware changes, but much more Gemini

For the past fewer years, Google’s Pixel has been a showcase of caller AI features, with fewer hardware changes from the erstwhile year’s devices. Similarly, the Pixel 11 bid isn’t excessively antithetic successful plan and internals from its predecessor.

However, this year’s devices person much Gemini features to implicit tasks successful the background, including a caller Wispr Flow-like transcription feature, a unrecorded translation diagnostic that works crossed content, and a caller camera diagnostic that captures the close frames.

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AI advances connected the Pixel 11

With this year’s Pixel 11 bid launch, Google is reasoning much agentic AI to implicit your tasks. With Gemini, U.S.-based users volition beryllium capable to bid groceries, publication rides, oregon get coffee, for instance. Plus, Gemini tin telephone businesses connected users’ behalf for array reservations oregon appointments. Google said that users tin instrumentality implicit oregon halt tasks astatine immoderate constituent successful clip and besides reappraisal transcripts for AI-operated calls.

The institution has besides evolved the “Magic Cue” diagnostic from past twelvemonth to usage Gemini, which proactively surfaces contextual information, to present show accusation from crossed your apps to assistance you find suggestions for things similar a meal spot oregon show.

In May, Google announced a dictation merchandise called Rambler to instrumentality connected competitors similar Wispr Flow and Aqua. Now, that merchandise is making its mode to the Pixel phones.

The caller Pixel bid phones person immoderate different adjuvant features that mightiness beryllium useful for regular usage, too. First, the instrumentality tin construe videos, podcasts, and dependable messages successful the people language. The institution is besides making its “Circle to Search” gesture-based diagnostic disposable straight successful the camera, thing that Apple besides did successful iOS 27 by making Siri disposable successful the camera.

What’s more, Google is adding an accessibility diagnostic to the camera, which uses Gemini to construe motion connection into substance to assistance radical pass with others who person proceeding impairments. And the institution has redesigned the unrecorded transcribe interface for improved communication.

Camera features

Google besides added a fewer AI tricks embedded into its camera. One diagnostic is called “Magic Capture,” which picks the champion frames retired of hundreds of frames it captures betwixt erstwhile users property commencement and end. The thought is to instrumentality a video and get photos arsenic a byproduct. Google said that the diagnostic besides auto-crops and unblurs the frames to marque them acceptable for sharing.

The institution has upgraded its ace zoom from 100x to 120x for Pro phones, and from 20x to 30x for the basal Pixel 11. With the caller devices, users volition beryllium capable to make customized looks for the camera, which are specialized filters that look erstwhile users are snapping images.

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The Pro phones are besides getting faster seizure with a diagnostic called “Instant Night Sight,” which takes 4.5x little clip than the previous-gen phone’s Night Sight. Google enhanced video shooting, too, with enactment for 8K solution with video boost and amended stability.

For creators, Google added a “creator suite” mode successful video settings, which lets you usage Pixel 11 devices arsenic a teleprompter portion shooting clips. When you are done shooting, the clip is saved successful a dedicated folder, making it easier to find for editing.

Hardware upgrades

All the Pixel phones present tally the latest Tensor G6 processor, which has 20% amended powerfulness ratio and
allows for 25% faster browsing, arsenic per Google. Plus, it lets users instrumentality faster low-light photos with Night Sight Instant.

The caller representation awesome processing connected the spot besides enables 120x magic zoom connected the Pixel 11 Pro XL. The institution said that the caller processors tally the latest models with little latency, but didn’t connection immoderate circumstantial metrics.

The show size connected each phones is the same, but the Pro models get a somewhat brighter display, which could beryllium adjuvant successful the daylight.

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Google said Pro models get an updated main camera sensor that takes higher-quality photos than the erstwhile procreation without specifying immoderate numbers. It besides said the caller telephoto sensor allows for 32% much airy portion capturing an image.

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London-based startup Nothing made its phones recognizable by Glyph bars and past a Glyph interface. Google is not that extravagant, but it has present placed an LED airy connected the back, which is built astir the flashlight. This acts arsenic an indicator for calls oregon messages from favourite contacts erstwhile Gemini is reasoning oregon listening.

All these devices are disposable to pre-order starting contiguous and volition commencement with a basal retention of 256GB.

The Pixel 11 starts astatine $899, the 11 Pro starts astatine $1,099, and the 11 Pro XL starts astatine $1,299. (The prices of the Pixel 11 and the Pixel 11 Pro are the aforesaid arsenic past year’s 256GB models, but you could bargain a 128 GB exemplary astatine that clip with a $100 little terms tag.)

With the rising prices of components, the institution has bumped the terms of the apical exemplary by $100 compared to the Pixel 10 XL.

A caller lineup of Pixel 11 accessories is besides arriving alongside the phones, including caller Pixelsnap cases (which present see clear) and Pixelsnap Ring Stand colors.