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Just announced today, the new Google Pixel 9 smartphones are the most advanced Android devices yet. They rely on a powerful new processor, a beautiful touchscreen display, an advanced camera system and all of Google’s latest AI tools and features. 

There are now three versions of the standard Google Pixel 9 series phone available — the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro and the Pixel 9 Pro XL. A folding version of the phone, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, was also announced.

Starting today, you can preorder any of the new Google Pixel 9 smartphones. They begin shipping on August 22 and September 4, depending on the model and configuration you choose. Each model comes in a variety of colors and configurations. 

If you’ve been thinking about switching from iPhone to Android or want a smartphone with the latest AI functions, now is the time to get your hands on one of the new Google Pixel 9 phones. Here’s what you need to know about the new Google Pixel 9 smartphones, including how to take advantage of the enticing pre-order deals that are available right now.


The new Google Pixel 9 series smartphones

The new Google Pixel 9 series phones represent on large step forward in smartphone technology and a giant lap for mobile artificial intelligence. Here’s an overview of the latest Pixel 9 smartphones you can pre-order right now.

Google Pixel 9 Pro: Advanced functionality with integrated AI and better cameras

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Display size: 6.3 inches | Display type: Super Actua OLED touchscreen | Display resolution: 1,280 x 2,856 pixels | Display brightness: Up to 3,000 nits | Processor: Google Tensor G4, Titan M2 security coprocessor | Available colors: Porcelain, rose quartz, hazel obsidian | Dimensions: 6 x 2.8 x 0.3 inches | Weight: 7 ounces | Battery life: Up to 24 hours | Storage options: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB | Rear cameras: 50MP (wide), 48MP (ultra-wide), 48MP (telephoto) | Front camera: 42MP | Operating system: Android 14 | Port: USB Type-C 3.2 | Wireless connectivity: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.3

The Google Pixel 9 Pro model offers a beautiful 6.3-inch Super Actua OLED touchscreen display with a 120Hz refresh rate and an improved camera system. It’s waterproof and more durable than previous Pixel smartphones. And it comes in several new colors.

The camera system offers three rear-facing cameras, with the main, wide camera offering 50MP resolution. But it’s the AI-driven photo enhancement and editing tools that set the Pixel 9 far ahead of most Android smartphones and all Apple iPhones. These include the new “Add Me” feature, a tool that lets the picture taker add themselves to the group photograph they’re taking.

The Pixel 9 Pro does everything last year’s Pixel 8 Pro can do, but it now runs using the Tensor G4 processor, has a longer battery life and more powerful AI tools, including the Gemini Assistant feature. Another of the many new features added to this phone is the Thermometer app that allows you to take someone’s body temperature using a quick forehead swipe. And if there’s an emergency and you’re caught in the middle of nowhere with no cellular signal, the Satellite SOS feature allows you to send a text message via a satellite system.

Google has pledged seven years’ worth of OS and security updates for the phone.

The Google Pixel 9 Pro comes in four colors. At the time of purchase, you can choose between 128GB ($999), 256GB ($1,099), 512GB ($1,219) or 1TB ($1,449) of internal storage.

Between now and August 21, if you pre-order the Google Pixel 9 Pro from Best Buy, you’ll get a $200 Best Buy gift card as a bonus, along with a three month Google One subscription. Trade-in deals are also available.

Amazon has the Google Pixel 9 Pro available as well, with a $200 Amazon gift card bonus offer when you pre-order by Aug. 28, 2024.


Google Pixel 9 Pro XL: Same Pixel 9 Pro, but with a larger display

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Display size: 6.8 inches | Display type: Super Actua touchscreen | Display resolution: 1,344 x 2,992 pixels | Display brightness: Up to 3,000 nits | Processor: Google Tensor G4, Titan M2 security co-processor | Available colors: Porcelain, rose quartz, hazel, obsidian | Dimensions: 6.4 x 3 x 0.3 inches | Weight: 7.8 ounces | Battery life: Up to 24 hours | Storage options: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB | Rear cameras: 50MP (wide), 48MP (ultra-wide), 48MP (telephoto) | Front camera: 42MP | Operating system: Android 14 | Port: USB Type-C 3.2 | Wireless connectivity: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.3

The Google Pixel 9 Pro XL offers everything built into the new 6.8-inch Google Pixel 9 Pro, but also offers a larger, 6.8-inch display with 1,344 x 2,992-pixel resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. The display’s maximum brightness is 3,000 nits, which makes this the brightest Pixel phone yet.

Choose between four colors — porcelain, rose quartz, hazel or obsidian. You also get four internal storage options including 128GB ($1,099), 256GB ($1,199), 512GB ($1,319) or 1TB ($1,549). The phone measures 6.4 x 3 x 0.3 inches and weighs 7.8 ounces.

When you pre-order the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL from Best Buy, you’ll get a $200 Best Buy gift card as a bonus, along with a three-month subscription to Google One. You can finance the phone starting at $45.80 per month for 24 months.

Pre-order the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL from Amazon, starting at $1,099, and get a $200 Amazon gift card as a bonus.


Google Pixel 9: The perfect Android phone for average users

Google Pixel 9 Pre-Order

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Display size: 6.3 inches | Display type: Actua (OLED) | Display resolution: 1,080 x 2,424 | Display brightness: Up to 2,700 nits | Processor: Google Tensor G4, Titan M2 security co-processor | Available colors: Peony, wintergreen, porcelain, obsidian | Dimensions: 6 x 2.8 x 0.3 inches | Weight: 7 ounces | Battery life: Up to 24 hours | Storage options: 128GB, 256GB | Rear cameras: 50MP (wide), 48MP (ultra-wide) | Front camera: 10.5MP | Operating system: Android 14 | Port: USB Type-C 3.2 | Wireless connectivity: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.3

Enjoy an enhanced camera system with AI photo editing, access to Gemini Assistant, integrated Google AI features, and a slew of upgraded hardware features including a brighter display, faster processor, and longer battery life.

You also get a handful of safety and security features, including the ability to send crisis alerts, crash detection, enhanced call screening and tools that’ll automatically help keep you and your data safe when surfing the internet. Under normal use, the phone’s battery now lasts up to 24 hours, but in extreme battery saver mode, this can be boosted up to 100 hours.

Pricing for the Google Pixel 9 is $799 for the 128GB version or $899 for the 256GB version. If you pre-order the phone at Best Buy, you’ll receive a $100 Best Buy gift card and a three-month subscription to Google One. Generous trade-in credit is also being offered for eligible devices. Head over to Amazon and purchase the Google Pixel 9 starting at $799 and get a $100 Amazon gift card as a bonus.


New features all Google Pixel 9 phones have in common

According to Google, Android smartphones have entered “the Gemini AI era.” This means that moving forward, all new Android phones will integrate the latest Google Gemini AI tools and features, including the Gemini Assistant (which has replaced Google Assistant). While older Android phones will gain some AI capabilities with an Android OS update, only the newer phones will offer all of the latest AI functionality.

All of the Google Pixel 9 smartphones have Gemini Assistant built-in. Using advanced AI, it understands not just the words you say or type, but the user’s intent. It’s also able to access, work with and share information between your Gmail inbox, files and data stored on your smartphone, files and data stored within your Google Drive account, as well as the Calendar, Google Photos, Google Keep, Google Tasks and Google Maps apps. And if you subscribe to Gemini Advanced, you’ll gain access to a new feature called Gemini Live. It allows you to converse with Gemini Assistant through normal conversation. And Gemini Assistant can be assigned your favorite of 10 voice options.

In addition, all of the Google Pixel 9 smartphones have these 12 (and many other) new features in common:

  • Up to 20% longer battery life compared to previous Pixel phones.
  • Most Pixel 9 phone configurations come with one year of Gemini Advanced service.
  • Access to the new Satellite SOS feature that allows text messages to be sent via satellite in an emergency when the phone does not have cellular access.
  • The redesigned Pixel Weather app is customizable and more accurate.
  • Pixel Call Assist offers a wide range of enhanced and new calling features, including Call Notes. This feature allows you to record phone calls and receive both a full, text-based transcript and a call summary almost immediately after a call ends.
  • Pixel Screenshots allows you to capture a screenshot of anything displayed on the phone’s screen, store it for future reference and have the content within the screenshot be searchable and made interactive using Gemini Assistant. It’s designed to help users remember things visually.
  • Pixel Studio provides a more powerful text-to-image generator that includes a handful of style options. After creating an image, in can be further customized by applying a specialized style.
  • The redesigned Panoramic photo mode now supports night sight and the ability to capture up to 50MP images.
  • Group Photos makes capturing group images faster and easier. There’s also the new Add Me feature for incorporating yourself into a group photo if you’re the one taking the picture.
  • Guided Frame uses advanced AI to help you frame the best possible shots when taking pictures or shooting video.
  • There are enhanced Magic Editor photo editing features, including a new Auto Frame tool.
  • Video Boost enhances 4K resolution video up to near 8K resolution.

This is all in addition to the AI-driven features already available in the Google Pixel 8 series phones and some other Android smartphones.


For more help choosing a new smartphone, we’ve got you covered with our comprehensive coverage of the best cell phones of 2024, the best smartphones with AI, the best folding smartphones in 2024, and the best smartphones under $500. In fact, all of our smartphone coverage is continuously being updated as new models and operating system updates are released.




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90-year-old great-grandmother graduates from New Hampshire college 50 years after finishing degree

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MANCHESTER N.H. – Some people may have thought there was a celebrity in the building at Southern New Hampshire University’s graduation on Saturday. Annette Roberge certainly felt like one as she crossed the stage to get her diploma at 90 years old.

“I’m still on cloud nine,” Roberge said. “I can’t even put it into words. It was exhilarating, it was awesome, it was beyond anything I could’ve possibly imagined.”

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Roberge walked across the stage to a standing ovation from her peers.

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Degree 50 years in the making

This degree has been decades in the making for the mother of five, grandmother of 12, and great-grandmother of 15. She began taking classes at New Hampshire College, now SNHU, in 1972 one year after her husband of 20 years was killed in Vietnam.

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Roberge graduated from Manchester Central High School in 1953 and she married her husband later that year.

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She completed several night and weekend courses before it took a backseat to her five kids and two jobs. Roberge worked as an insurance agent while she finished up as a lunch lady at a nearby school. Roberge retired at age 75, but she was a woman who loved learning, and she knew something was missing from her life.  

“If I started something I just have to finish it,” Roberge said.

But it wasn’t until recently that Roberge’s daughter began poking around and learned her mom had earned enough credits for an associate’s degree in business administration. Barring some health challenges, Roberge finally walked across the stage on Saturday to the roaring cheers from her fellow graduates and a standing ovation.

“Never give up on learning because what you learn can never be taken away from you,” Roberge said.

“It matters so much for the example it sets about what we do for ourselves, to keep learning and stretching and growing,” SNHU President Lisa Marsh Ryerson said.

“Don’t ever give up on a dream”

Roberge even had a parting message for all of her new fellow graduates.   

“If you’ve got a dream don’t let it just sit there. Do something, make it work, don’t ever give up on a dream.”

If you thought Roberge would be satisfied with her associate’s degree you’d be wrong. She plans to start working towards her bachelor’s degree in January.



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Potential winter storms forecast across U.S. on Thanksgiving week could impact holiday travel

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Forecasters around the United States have issued severe weather warnings ahead of another wave of winter storms that could potentially affect travel around the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. Meanwhile, parts of the Pacific Northwest and California continued to recover from storm damage and widespread power outages, as they braced for more impact.

In California, where a person was found dead in a vehicle submerged in floodwaters on Saturday, authorities braced for more precipitation while grappling with flooding and small landslides from a previous storm. Thousands in the Pacific Northwest remained without power after multiple days in the dark.

The National Weather Service office in Sacramento, California, issued a winter storm warning for the state’s Sierra Nevada for Saturday through Tuesday, with heavy snow expected at higher elevations and wind gusts potentially reaching 55 miles per hour. Total snowfall of roughly 4 feet was forecast, with the heaviest accumulations expected Monday and Tuesday.

“A weak low pressure system will continue directing a plume of moisture at the West Coast over the next few days,” the Weather Prediction Center said in an advisory Sunday, which was effective through Tuesday. “This will likely result in coastal and low elevation rain, while moderate to heavy snow proliferates across the coastal ranges of Washington, Oregon and California.”

The heaviest snow was expected to fall over sections of the Sierra Nevada, forecasters said, noting that areas in the Colorado Rockies would likely see snow showers, too, over the next few days. Another atmospheric river event was forecast to arrive in parts of central California on Tuesday.

The Midwest and Great Lakes regions will see rain and snow Monday and the East Coast will be the most impacted on Thanksgiving and Black Friday, forecasters said.

CBS News meteorologist Nikki Nolan said the holiday outlook was still uncertain at the end of last week, but the weather system could bring rain and snow to the northeastern U.S. while causing temperatures to drop across most of the country, outside of the Southeast.

“While models can change in the days ahead, Thanksgiving Day is showing a low-pressure system moving across the East and entering the Northeast by evening hours,” Nolan said Friday.

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Firefighters walk through floodwaters while responding to a rescue call in unincorporated Sonoma County, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024.

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A low-pressure system is forecast to bring rain to the Southeast early Thursday before heading to the Northeast. Areas from Boston to New York could see rain and strong winds, with snowfall possible in parts of northern New Hampshire, northern Maine and the Adirondacks. If the system tracks further inland, there could be less snow and more rain in the mountains, forecasters said.

Earlier this week, at least two people died when severe weather struck the Pacific Northwest, bringing powerful wind and rain, closing schools, and causing widespread power outages. The two who died were killed by falling trees in Lynnwood and Bellevue, both in Washington state, officials said. Hundreds of thousands lost power, mostly in the Seattle area, before strong winds moved through Northern California.

Rescue crews in Guerneville, California, recovered a body inside a vehicle bobbing in floodwaters around 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Rob Dillion said, noting the deceased was presumed to be a victim of the storm but an autopsy had not yet been conducted.

Santa Rosa, California, saw its wettest three-day period on record with about 12.5 inches of rain by Friday evening, the National Weather Service in the Bay Area reported. Vineyards in nearby Windsor, California, were flooded on Saturday.

Some 80,000 people in the Seattle area were still without electricity after this season’s strongest atmospheric river, a long plume of moisture that forms over an ocean and flows over land. The atmospheric river overwhelmed parts of the Pacific Northwest as well as California, and was the strongest weather event of its kind seen all season.

The storm system hit the area Tuesday. It was considered a “bomb cyclone,” which occurs when a cyclone intensifies rapidly. Although the intensity of the atmospheric river peaked later in the week, forecasters had warned that another bout of severe weather was still yet to come.

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A vineyard remains flooded after heavy storms Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, in Windsor, Calif.

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The power came back in the afternoon at Katie Skipper’s home in North Bend, about 30 miles east of Seattle, after being out since Tuesday. She was tired from taking cold showers, warming herself with a wood stove and using a generator to run the refrigerator, but Skipper said those inconveniences paled in comparison to the damage other people suffered, such as from fallen trees.

“That’s really sad and scary,” she said.

Another storm brought rain to New York and New Jersey, where rare wildfires have raged in recent weeks, and heavy snow to northeastern Pennsylvania. The precipitation was expected to help ease drought conditions after an exceptionally dry fall.

“It’s not going to be a drought buster, but it’s definitely going to help when all this melts,” said Bryan Greenblatt, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Binghamton, New York.

Heavy snow fell in northeastern Pennsylvania, including the Pocono Mountains. Higher elevations reported up to 17 inches, with lesser accumulations in valley cities including Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. Less than 80,000 customers in 10 counties lost power.

Precipitation in West Virginia helped put a dent in the state’s worst drought in at least two decades and boosted ski resorts preparing to open their slopes in the weeks ahead.



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Missing rabbi killed in the UAE in “heinous antisemitic terror incident,” Israel says

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Israel said Sunday that the body of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found after he was killed in what it described as a “heinous antisemitic terror incident.”

The statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel “will act with all means to seek justice with the criminals responsible for his death.” There was no immediate comment from the UAE.

Zvi Kogan, 28, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi who went missing on Thursday, ran a Kosher grocery store in the futuristic city of Dubai, where Israelis have flocked for commerce and tourism since the two countries forged diplomatic ties in the 2020 Abraham Accords.

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A man walks past Rimon Market, a Kosher grocery store managed by the late Rabbi Zvi Kogan, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024.

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The agreement has held through more than a year of soaring regional tensions unleashed by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack into southern Israel. But Israel’s devastating retaliatory offensive in Gaza and its invasion of Lebanon, after months of fighting with the Hezbollah militant group, have stoked anger among Emiratis, Arab nationals and others living in the UAE.

Iran, which supports Hamas and Hezbollah, has also been threatening to retaliate against Israel after a wave of airstrikes Israel carried out in October in response to an Iranian ballistic missile attack.

The Emirati government did not respond to a request for comment.

Early Sunday, the UAE’s state-run WAM news agency acknowledged Kogan’s disappearance but pointedly did not acknowledge he held Israeli citizenship, referring to him only as being Moldovan. The Emirati Interior Ministry described Kogan as being “missing and out of contact.”

“Specialized authorities immediately began search and investigation operations upon receiving the report,” the Interior Ministry said.

Netanyahu told a regular Cabinet meeting later Sunday that he was “deeply shocked” by Kogan’s disappearance and death. He said he appreciated the cooperation of the UAE in the investigation and said that ties between the two countries would continue to be strengthened.

Israel’s largely ceremonial president, Isaac Herzog, condemned the killing and thanked Emirati authorities for “their swift action.” He said he trusts they “will work tirelessly to bring the perpetrators to justice.”

Kogan was an emissary of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, a prominent and highly observant branch of ultra-Orthodox Judaism based in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood in New York City. It said he was last seen in Dubai. The UAE has a burgeoning Jewish community, with synagogues and businesses catering to kosher diners.

The Rimon Market, a Kosher grocery store that Kogan managed on Dubai’s busy Al Wasl Road, was shut down Sunday. As the wars have roiled the region, the store has been the target of online protests by supporters of the Palestinians. Mezuzahs on the front and the back doors of the market appeared to have been ripped off when an Associated Press journalist stopped by on Sunday.

Kogan’s wife, Rivky, is a U.S. citizen who lived with him in the UAE. She is the niece of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, who was killed in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

The UAE is an autocratic federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula and is also home to Abu Dhabi. Local Jewish officials in the UAE declined to comment.

While the Israeli statement did not mention Iran, Iranian intelligence services have carried out past kidnappings in the UAE.

Western officials believe Iran runs intelligence operations in the UAE and keeps tabs on the hundreds of thousands of Iranians living across the country.

Iran is suspected of kidnapping and later killing British Iranian national Abbas Yazdi in Dubai in 2013, though Tehran has denied involvement. Iran also kidnapped Iranian German national Jamshid Sharmahd in 2020 from Dubai, taking him back to Tehran, where he was executed in October.



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