구글 픽셀 9 프로 리뷰: 성능, 디자인 및 AI 기능

### 구글 픽셀 9 프로와 프로 XL: 복잡하지만 유망한 진화
* 📱 Google Pixel 휴대전화는 **아름다운 애니메이션 소프트웨어**로 항상 특별했지만, 전반적인 경험을 저해하는 **심각한 문제**가 종종 발생하기도 합니다.
* 🔧 새로운 Pixel 9 Pro 및 9 Pro XL은 견고한 구조와 더 그립감 있는 측면으로 **iPhone 15 Pro Max에 필적하는 역대 최고의 빌드 품질**을 선보이며 많은 것을 증명하고 있습니다.
* 📦 하지만 예쁘지만 텅 빈 상자에 **휴대폰, 케이블, SIM 이젝터만 들어 있어** 언박싱 경험은 다소 실망스러웠습니다.
* 📊 게임 성능이 놀랍도록 향상되었지만 **새로운 Tensor G4 칩은 여전히 경쟁사보다 뒤처져** 동작이 느리게 느껴지는 등 성능은 여전히 우려되는 부분입니다.
* 📸 카메라 하드웨어는 작년 모델과 비슷하여 좋은 품질의 이미지를 제공하지만, **줌 및 인물 모드와 같은 특정 기능**에서는 여전히 경쟁사에 비해 덜 다듬어져 있습니다.
* 🤖 '광고하기'와 '매직 에디터'와 같은 새로운 AI 기능은 가능성을 보이지만 **반쯤 구워져 있고 제한적인 느낌**이 들 수 있으며, **Gemini AI 비서**는 대화형 경험을 제공하지만 일부 기본 기능이 부족합니다.
* 🔋 배터리 사용 시간은 **작은 Pro의 경우 6.5시간, XL의 경우 7시간**으로 괜찮으며, **증기 챔버를 추가하여 과열 문제를 해결**한 것으로 보입니다.
* ⚡ 전반적으로 Pixel 9 Pro는 과거의 많은 문제점을 개선했지만, **시작 가격이 1,100달러**로 경쟁사의 속도 및 저장 공간과 더 효과적으로 경쟁해야 합니다.

Pixel 9 Pro는 빌드 품질과 소프트웨어는 인상적이지만 성능과 저장 공간의 한계로 인해 여전히 어려움을 겪고 있습니다.

I have had a complicated relationship with the Google Pixel phones over the years. I've always said that at their very core, these phones are special. They have this beautifully animated, friendly, customizable software that's always capable of doing a few things so intelligent that they're practically indistinguishable from magic. But at the same time, these phones make me rage because so far, there's always been a blocker, significant enough issues that distract you from being able to focus on that delightful software. I've had build quality issues, I've had overheating issues, I've had signal issues, inconsistent camera issues, and just generally the phone's being quite a bit slower than the competition issues. So that puts this new Pixel 9 Pro and the 9 Pro XL, which is the one I've been mainly using, in a very interesting position. They have a lot to prove, but if they can prove it, then I mean, these could basically become my favorite phones ever. So this is how the Pixel 9 Pro and the Pro XL come presented. It's a pretty box.

but sadly, it's also a pretty empty box. You get the phone, you get a cable, and there's a SIM ejector somewhere in here. Well, at least it makes my job quicker. Here's the thing though: this is the best-built Pixel ever. It feels almost exactly like an iPhone 15 Pro Max when you pick it up. Very similar dimensions, very similar flat sides with a slight curve, and it's the same weight down to the gram. I remember reading a post saying that way more of the people who buy Pixels are actually ex-iPhone users as opposed to ex-Samsung, so I'd be very surprised if this similarity wasn't intentional to even further entice Apple fans who are still on the fence. But either way, I mean this as a compliment to the Pixel. The sides are grippier than their past phones. It looks and feels just really classy, especially with these thinner, completely even screen bezels. And this is also easily the most solidly constructed phone Google has ever made. It doesn't flex one bit, and if you

haven't already seen it. I'd say it very much passed the Jerry rig durability test. I've kind of been getting the feeling over the last few years that the pixel would end up as yet another one of those canned Google projects, you know, the classic downward spiral where things aren't quite there with a tech product, so then it doesn't sell well, so then it makes less money, so then it gets less investment, and never improves because of that. Besides, Google is specifically famous for cancelling projects, but getting a significant redesign like this feels like a reassurance that Google is still very much kicking around. Google is still determined to keep trying to become a definitive part of this Smartphone War, and the more that you use this phone, the more you realize why that's so important to them. But I'll get there. Oh, also, I don't normally talk about cases, but if you're going to make one, this is how it's done. This thing is addictively soft. It shows up no fingerprints, no light scratches. It gently swoops around the camera module.

giving you this soft lip to rest your fingers against. There's nice felt on the inside, a metal logo, and metal buttons which actually match the remaining visible part of the phone. And the sprinkle on top is that the fit is perfect. Every single cutout is exactly centralized, which, well, you'd be surprised how often that doesn't happen. And you know what? Design is not the only thing that's on the up here. The optical fingerprint scanner that we used to have, that was one of my major gripes. This new pixel switches that out for an ultrasonic scanner. It's basically firing out sound waves instead of light to map out the ridges of your fingers. But the upside of that is that it gives the phone basically a three-dimensional understanding of your prints, so it's more reliable, and you really feel that. I haven't had any signal issues, and while it's hard to say anything conclusive about signal because there's just so many factors, I do a pretty regular 2 and 1/2 hour trip from Nottingham my

hometown to London on the motorway, and the signal is famously patchy on this. Though I was actually flitting between 4G and 5G almost the entire time, with only two 5-minute bursts of nothing, so it's looking likely that the new modem on the inside of this pixel is doing its job. The general feel of using the phone is it's flawless. It's the best, honestly. Every single animation has an accompanying feeling generated by the vibration motor, even things like a gentle hum as you slide up and down your brightness. Plus, I've not had a single bug, which is a low bar, I realized, but that automatically makes this the most stable pixel launch in history. The battery is actually... the battery is not charged, so it's on 8% right now. Let's just plug it into our shiny new anchor Prime power station. But yeah, the battery life on these Pros is enough. I wouldn't call it sparkling. I'm talking 6 and 1/2 hours of screen-on time on the smaller Pro and 7

on the XL, which is less than my Samsung but enough for almost anyone, and it feels like Google's gained control of their overheating problem. I mean, the solution wasn't rocket science; they just finally caught up and put a vapor chamber in the phone like their competitors have been doing for ages. That has a lot of knock-on effects. It means that the screen, which is bright and pretty delicious by the way, doesn't dim minutes after I take it out on a hot day. The camera seems to record continuously without stuttering, and games don't dramatically slow down with persistent play. In fact, I did whip out the good old 3D Mark extreme stress test to put some numbers to this feeling and found that while the Galaxy S24 Ultra had 57% stability, meaning that by the end of this 30-minute or so stress test, it was only running at 57% of the performance it started with, the Pixel retained 71.7. Now, that's not the full story 'cause while the Pixel's stability score is higher, its performance to start with is

so much lower that even with more stability, there isn't a single point in this test where it's better than the S24 Ultra. Every year, performance has been a classic Pixel weakness that every year Google seems to keep addressing by just slapping that AI Band-Aid on top, and this new phone isn't completely free of that curse either. The new Tensor G4 chip that you find inside of the Pixel 9 Pros is still noticeably less fast than the chip inside the best from Samsung, Apple, OnePlus. All of those companies' top-end phones make basically every action instant, whereas the Pixel still feels like it enjoys its thinking time. You know, little things like it taking just a split second for the full-resolution image to load when you zoom into it, and the phone's storage speed might have something to do with that too. I ran multiple tests, and the Pixel comes out as significantly slower in terms of sequential read and write speeds than Samsung, which would explain why it takes longer to load things. And I'm just going to be brutally honest, this disparity

felt like an acceptable compromise when Google was charging $900 for a pro pixel, but now we're at $1,100. It needs to get on that level. That said, in a way, it's actually better than I thought it would be. I was expecting gaming, for example, to be a flop, but this is Zen Zone zero. This is as difficult as mobile games get to run, and I've played this for an hour at a time on absolutely maxed-out settings with no issues, apart from some slightly toasty side rails. And also, this chip combined with now 16 GB of RAM by default seems to drastically speed up AI tasks. I'm talking like 50% faster than they used to be, which was much needed. One of the key things that got to me with last year's pixel 8s was how stark the difference was between how easy and instant Google made AI photo editing look at their launch events versus the fiddly reality of it on the phones, made many times worse by the 5 to 10c loading.

time in between every single action, and so the fact that this stuff is so much faster here, it already starts to alleviate my blood pressure. As for all the new AI stuff they announced, I'd say most of it feels a little half-baked, which is a phrase I think I've used to describe every single AI phone this year. But there are three things, three things I absolutely love. The thing that they spent most of the time talking about was this one called ad me, where if you want to take a group shot but you don't want to ask someone to take the photo, you can separately take each person's shot, and Google software can merge them together into one. And while I would say that is very impressive from a technical perspective, I just don't think I'd ever use it. I've never really had a situation where I've wanted to take a group shot, and I haven't been able to find someone to take that shot. And if you can find someone, then that still feels like the better option to me, 'cause that way you

don't have to do this little fiddle. You don't have to take two separate shots. You don't have the risk that it doesn't quite turn out the way you expected, which, as we all know, there is a very decent chance of with any AI feature. And also, you know, it's just that your end result then is a photo of a real moment, which maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I still think that counts for something. There's a whole new app now for image generation called Pixel Studio, but to be honest, while it can generate some pretty quick, nice-looking images from scratch based on a prompt, it's nothing new or better than what's out there. It needs Wi-Fi, even though it's supposedly running on-device. And when you want to use it to mess with photos you've already taken, it's extremely limited and fiddly, with the selection tool being practically dysfunctional. And like, what in Earth is this? Why are the two key options for your next-generation AI photo editing app to add a caption or add a sticker?

this would have been cool if we were still living in the year 2000. The phone's assistant is in a slightly weird place. Basically, this phone's default assistant is Gemini. Gemini is more heavily AI-powered; it's way smarter, but it also seems to have a lot of limitations with how it can interact with your apps and also doesn't do some of the more basic things that Google Assistant used to do. So, it feels like we're at this pretty clumsy middle phase where you get both, and you can switch between them depending on the feature set you want, which makes me feel very much like a beta tester. Oh, but the magic editor is starting to get pretty interesting, though. I was playing around yesterday with the feature that allows you to zoom out of a photo that's already been taken, and I couldn't believe it. Like, look at this shot. I click the autoframing button, and Bam! It's understood that this wooden beam along the top has got to continue. It's understood that there's an extra step here, and it's estimated what it's likely

to look like it's understood that the trees are thinning around here, so when it zooms out, it's making sure that you can see more of the sky there. The idea of this feature isn't new; the execution of it very much is, and you can now reimagine photos, which can actually be very powerful and very convincing. I remember my jaw practically hitting the floor when I managed to change my cat into a dog. I mean, what the Google? The only thing I would say is it's a real hit to the feature's usefulness that you can't use it on shots of people. There's a new pixel screenshots app, which also falls into the category of pretty good. I actually think it's great that there's a separate app to manage screenshots, 'cause the reasons that I want to find screenshots are always very different from the reasons that I might want to browse my gallery. And while what the app does is not distinctly different from what most phones can already do by allowing you to search for things within your screenshots, it is one layer more.

intelligent because your phone can not just look at the specific info in the screenshots but also use AI to take one step back and understand what the screenshot is meaning. You're way more likely to be able to find it based on a vague description. The first thing that I absolutely love, though, is Gemini Live. It's basically the AI that you're used to but in a much more free-flowing way than I think we've ever experienced. You talk, you listen, you can talk over the AI. There are no trigger buttons or trigger words. It allows you to have something that very closely resembles a real human conversation. Let's do a little live demo. I'm debating between going for an Android phone or an iPhone. I'm a simple person. What would you recommend? Okay, choosing between Android and iPhone can be tough. iPhones are known for being really user-friendly and straightforward. They're a good choice if you want a phone that's easy to set up and just works. All right then, Google. Thank you, U. But what I also like about

It is that when you wanted to stop talking, you don't need to say anything or do anything. You just say what you want to say, and it will slowly reduce its own volume and listen. And I actually think that makes it a really powerful tool because it becomes like a live bouncing board. Like I was chatting to it last night. I said, I'm going to have some people over. What could I do for dinner that's a bit different? It said, Why don't you theme it? I was like, Great idea. We chatted for another 3 to 4 minutes, and by the end of it, I had a complete menu plan for my Pokémon-themed dinner, including the salad I would use to represent grass types and the spicy curry I'd use to represent fire types. Now, as for the other two AI features that I think are amazing, they're both within the camera. So let's talk cameras. The rear set of cameras have almost identical hardware to last year's phone. So that's a 50 MP main, 48

map Ultra wide and then a 48 map five times optical zoom, and so it's probably not shocking news to learn that the base quality of photos feels not that different from last year. So that means good color reproduction, a very strong ability to handle high dynamic range scenarios, and control those bright spots, very comparable levels of detail to Samsung's highest-end Galaxy S24 Ultra. But then a night mode that's good but just a little softer than Samsung's, and a portrait mode that I think it's fair to say falls behind. Like, look at the edge detection here versus the Galaxy. It really gives itself away as a phone photo, and upsettingly, many of the frustrations I had with last year's phone are also still present here. Zooming in and out is still very laggy. It makes it feel unpolished. The camera preview can still get grainy, even if the end photos are not. The transition between lenses feels jumpy. There's weird limitations, like you can't use your five-time zoom lens to take portraits, nor can

you use it for slow-mo with instead the phone opting for some very poor quality digital zoom, and this really cool cinematic blur mode is 1080p only. But the front camera is new. This is now a 42 MP sensor. That's the reason for the fairly large cutout, and I'll take it. It lets you go super wide if you want to get those group shots. I don't think I've ever seen a phone go wider than this. But also, I was pleasantly surprised by the detail, and you can also shoot some pretty solid 4K video because yes, Google has put some work in to bring up the video quality on the Pixels 2. And that leads me on to the AI feature video boost. It's kind of strange, but when you're taking video on this phone, this only works on your rear cameras, by the way. You have the option to boost that video. If you select the option, then your phone will keep the footage largely unprocessed so that the next time you're on Wi-Fi, it can upload it to the cloud.

and get Google's superpowered data centers to process it even better than your phone itself could. It improves the colors, the dynamic range, the stabilization. It can completely rescue grainy footage taken in low light, which was one of the biggest weaknesses of past Pixel phones. It can even upgrade the resolution to 8K. And it's one of those features that you feel like it shouldn't work; it almost sounds like some kind of elaborate scam, but it does. I guess you could say there is a hidden cost associated with it, though, 'cause like if you want 8K video-boosted content, you're going to need a heck of a lot of cloud storage, specifically Google Cloud Storage. You'll need about 800 MB per minute of it. And also, you need to be very careful with this phone about joining other people's data hotspots 'cause your phone will pick them up as Wi-Fi networks, and before you know it, you could have burnt through 10 GB of their data obliviously boosting your videos in the background without you even

realizing I know this from personal experience doesn't make you popular, but it's this kind of stuff that reminds you why Google never stops trying with the pixels. 'Cuz I mean, like, if this phone succeeds, so do all of their services, and not just Google Photos, but also their Gemini AI, because this phone is the best possible portal through which to funnel people to them. It's also very clear that this is why Google is like the only company still shipping a top-of-the-line Pro phone, starting with just 128 GB of onboard storage, which, to be honest, combined with it costing a whole $100 extra just to get to 256, feels lowkey diabolical to me. Ah, but then here is the other thing about this camera, the zoom. Zoom, see the big tin super res zoom feature that pixels have is already good. Like, when you zoom in 30 times and you take the shot, a surprising amount of improvement is made after that capture to the point where I would say the pixel's long-range zoom shots are already 95% as good as those on

Samsung's S24 Ultra, and that's one of that phone's key selling points. But then add in the new Zoom enhance AI feature on top of that, and Samsung gets absolutely murdered. Now, this obviously does open a can of worms 'cause what Google is doing here is inventing detail. It's not completely consistent, and it's perfectly possible that this texture it's creating isn't completely real. So, is it actually the better zoom camera? I guess that's up to you, but which image would I rather have? That's pretty clear. It's the Google. The final thing I would add about cameras is the very underrated panorama mode. This is the best phone for taking panoramas. It makes them really easy to take, they're super detailed, and each photo is stitched together extremely seamlessly. Okay, so is this phone good? Yes, it is. The Pixel 9 Pro either improves upon or completely fixes about 70% of my issues with past pixels. Everything from cameras to performance to AI. It does that with classic Google perks like this joyous software and 7.

years of Android updates with the extras that I didn't even know I wanted, like this big redesign, or well actually forget the redesign, look at this case. I really like this thing. The key cons are just, well, you're basically paying $1,200 for the XL model 'cause no one wants a flagship phone with just 128 GB of storage, and it's still not as fast as the competition. Okay, it's been an hour, and the phone is on 67% while I've been using it the whole time. And you want to know why? It's because of the new Anker Prime charging station. The company has sponsored this video, but that doesn't change the fact that this is the new gold standard for a setup. It's got a total output of 250 watts, so one cable into here, and this thing can happily charge your laptop, three phones, and two other gadgets, all at full speed. Plus, it's got a 2.26-inch LCD interactive charging display, which gives you immediate updates on charging status and speed. But there is more. There's a

new fusion power bank, which is so cool because this is basically a full-on wall charger, and then as soon as you want to go somewhere, you automatically have a fully charged 9,600 mAh battery pad. Not to mention the docking station, which is this absolutely ridiculous 14 in-1 charging and data transfer solution. You can turn a desk like this into a desk like this with one of these. This stuff right here is no exaggeration. Currently, the top contenders for what we're going to be kitting out are next-gen studio with so check out the full anchor Prime lineup in the link below.

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구글 픽셀 9 프로와 프로 XL: 유망한 진화

구글 픽셀 9 프로와 프로 XL은 이전 모델에서 심각한 문제를 일으킨 전력이 있는 만큼 증명해야 할 것이 많습니다.

새로운 디자인은 아이폰 15 프로 맥스와 매우 흡사하여 기존 아이폰 사용자를 끌어들이는 것을 목표로 합니다.

이 휴대 전화는 견고한 구조, 더 그립감 있는 측면, 완벽한 피팅 케이스가 특징이며 초음파 지문 스캐너로 전환하여 안정성을 향상시켰습니다.

Pixel 9 Pro는 안정적이고 완벽한 성능을 제공하며, 새로운 모뎀으로 원활한 4G 및 5G 연결을 보장합니다.

배터리 사용 시간은 더 작은 Pro의 경우 6.

5시간, XL의 경우 7시간으로 괜찮은 편이며 과열 문제도 효과적으로 해결했습니다.

Tensor G4 칩은 경쟁사보다 여전히 느리지만 안정성이 향상되고 AI 작업 처리 속도가 빨라져 게임 및 기타 까다로운 작업을 더 쉽게 처리할 수 있습니다.

구글의 새로운 AI 기능 혼합 가방

Google의 새로운 AI 기능은 작업을 간소화하고 사진 촬영을 개선하는 것을 목표로 하지만 일부 기능은 반쯤 구워진 느낌입니다.

단체 사진 촬영을 위한 '애드 미' 기능은 인상적이지만 모든 사람에게 실용적이지 않을 수 있습니다.

이미지 생성을 위한 Pixel Studio 앱은 압도적이며, 휴대폰의 어시스턴트는 AI 기반 기능과 기존 기능 사이의 전환이 어색합니다.

매직 에디터의 사진 줌아웃 기능은 강력하고 설득력 있는 이미지 재구성을 제공하며, 새로운 픽셀 스크린샷 앱은 스크린샷을 관리하고 검색하는 더 나은 방법을 제공합니다.

휴대폰의 AI는 스크린샷을 이해하고 모호한 설명을 바탕으로 도움을 제공할 수 있습니다.

Gemini Live는 보다 자연스러운 대화 흐름을 제공하여 사용자가 트리거 단어 없이도 말하고 들을 수 있습니다.

카메라 기능은 전년도와 하드웨어가 비슷하여 사진 품질은 좋지만 줌, 렌즈 전환 및 인물 모드에서 여전히 어려움을 겪고 있습니다.

이제 Pixel 휴대전화에 그룹 촬영을 위한 초광각 옵션과 향상된 4K 동영상 화질을 지원하는 42MP 전면 카메라가 탑재되었습니다.

또한 클라우드에서 영상을 처리하여 더 나은 색상, 다이나믹 레인지 및 안정화를 제공하는 고유한 AI 비디오 부스트 기능을 제공하며 해상도를 8K로 업그레이드할 수도 있습니다.

이 휴대폰의 최상위 스토리지 용량은 128GB부터 시작하며, 100달러를 추가하면 256GB로 늘어나며, 인상적인 장거리 줌 기능도 갖추고 있습니다.

구글의 픽셀 9 프로 및 앵커 프라임 충전 스테이션

Pixel 9 Pro는 강력한 줌 카메라와 AI로 향상된 디테일 기능을 제공하여 사진 촬영에 있어 강력한 경쟁자입니다.

또한 파노라마 모드에서도 뛰어난 성능을 발휘하여 매끄럽고 디테일한 이미지를 제공합니다.

또한 Anker Prime 충전 스테이션은 총 250와트의 출력을 제공하여 여러 장치를 최고 속도로 충전할 수 있으며, 이동 중에도 충전할 수 있는 퓨전 파워 뱅크가 탑재되어 있습니다.