All 4 of Google’s Pixel 9 telephones get lined up and shot (by regulators)

Can you actually name them “leaks” if, yearly, Google’s Pixel telephones find yourself being sloshed everywhere in the net for months earlier than their official launch? What quantity of photographs, {hardware} specs, and different particulars constitutes a leak, quite than a quick-draining colander?

Google’s Pixel 9 sequence of telephones are anticipated to be launched at an occasion on August 13. As a result of these telephones have to be licensed by varied regulators, together with the Taiwanese Nationwide Communications Fee, or NCC, there at the moment are photographs—so many photographs—of all 4 telephones Google is predicted to announce subsequent month. The Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Professional, Pixel 9 Professional XL, and Pixel 9 Professional Fold, Google’s second try at a folding telephone, have been sized, measured, rated for battery life and charging velocity, and even disassembled for a glance inside.

As has been instructed by Pixel 9 renders, renders of all three non-folding telephones, and footage of prototypes, the NCC footage verify that Google’s “Professional” telephone on this sequence is similar measurement as the usual mannequin 9 however with three rear cameras and upgraded, probably AI-friendly specs. The NCC filings do not verify all inside specs, such because the eye-popping 16GB of RAM seen in an earlier Pixel 9 Professional prototype. Google has beforehand famous that holding sure generative fashions to be “RAM-resident” requires extra RAM.

The Pixel 9 and 9 Professional get a 4,558 mAh battery, in keeping with NCC filings, whereas the 9 Professional XL packs in 4,942 mAh. That represents a really slight bump from the Pixel 8 for the Pixel 9, and about even between the Pixel 8 Professional and Pixel 9 Professional XL (which, reminder, at the moment are the “huge” telephones, even when some individuals may think about the 6.1-inch screens on the bottom fashions not fairly “small”). Charging speeds are roughly the identical between the Pixel 8 and 9, as Android Authority notes, although the “huge” Pixel telephone jumps from roughly 27 W within the 8 sequence to virtually 33 W on the Pixel 9 Professional XL itemizing.

A Fold that’s flatter, taller

What’s rather more modified is the Pixel 9 Professional Fold. It is not as squat and sq. as the unique Pixel fold from 2023, being considerably taller and nearer to its direct opponents now. Its cameras at the moment are organized in a sq. grid quite than the standard, thick Pixel horizontal bar. The selfie digital camera on the massive internal display is now within the nook. The bezels slimmed down, the crease appears diminished (no less than in these prototype photographs, and, notably, the brand new Fold can lay fully flat, one thing the prior mannequin couldn’t do.

The brand new Fold’s battery is cited as 4,560 mAh, in comparison with the prior mannequin’s 4,727mAh. As famous in our evaluate of the Pixel Fold, Google managed to slot in the most important battery within the class, however the class has an inherent challenge with battery life. Really utilizing that huge OLED display for the issues that make it enjoyable to make use of, like watching movies or taking part in video games, drains battery sooner than the same expertise with a pill, which might have twice the battery cells packed in.

All 4 Pixel telephones have Thread radio assist listed, and all however the base mannequin Pixel 9 have ultra-wideband (UWB) assist famous. There’s additionally a brand new, Google-white-and-smooth 45 W charger submitted with these telephones.

Android Authority has the perfect structure of photographs of the Pixel 9 sequence made seen by the NCC. The units appear to be a lock to be debuted on the Made by Google occasion on August 13.