Google's umbrella brand for Pixel 11 AI features including Proactive Assistance, Rambler and At a Glance additions.
Of the five things Google shipped this month, three work without asking Gemini anything. The one most likely to change a user's day is limited to phones running Android 17, which means the newest handsets get it first.
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A third year on one chassis leaves the upgrade case resting on Gemini features that 9to5Google's reviewer believes could be backported to older Pixels, while the one genuinely new part on the back gets called a waste.
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9to5Google's side-by-side finds identical displays, unchanged biometrics and matched battery life. What is left of the upgrade case sits in storage speed and features Google is holding back.
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9to5Google measures the Pixel 11 Pro against Apple's 2025 phone and finds little between them. The close scoreline is the finding, not the compliment.
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Hardware is flat and the base model trades RAM for a higher price. Two of the three headline features arrive incomplete or conditional, with no published schedule for fixing them.
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