When the primary leaks of the Pixel 9 collection arrived, we weren’t alone in pondering that the units seemed just like Apple’s iPhone. The flat edges, emblem styling, and rounded corners all gave off an iPhone vibe, even when there’s nonetheless a lot Google as part of the package deal. Since we’ve got an iPhone 15 Professional in home, in addition to each the Pixel 9 Professional and Pixel 9 Professional XL, we thought we’d toss them subsequent to one another to point out you if they are surely that related as we additionally discuss how good this {hardware} is.
Right here’s the Pixel 9 Professional vs. the iPhone 15 Professional.
The very first thing I might admit is that, sure, the Pixel 9 Professional does certainly have some similarities to the iPhone 15 Professional, however if you get every in hand or have a look at the photographs right here, I’m undecided you’d mistake both for each other. As we talked about within the lead-up to launch, the Pixel 9 Professional continues to be indisputably a Google telephone, seems prefer it matches completely into the Pixel household, and has such a definite digicam bar, that you’d know what it was the minute you noticed one. Nobody is (truthfully) trying on the Pixel 9 Professional telephones above and going, “Yeah man, that’s simply an iPhone copy.” It isn’t.
Certain, we’ve got curved corners (which Google did on the Pixel 8 collection too) and flat edges. It’s probably these two design decisions which have introduced us to this comparability immediately. Nonetheless, can Apple actually personal these concepts ceaselessly? It will be foolish to counsel so, so no, they’ll’t.
What I’ll say is that Google nailed this design out of the gate, not like Apple. You know the way Apple followers like to counsel that when Apple copies others and releases software program options years later, that Apple is ok doing so as a result of they did it and made it higher? Google has flipped that argument right here. For therefore lengthy, Apple has launched iPhones with flat edges, solely doing so with edges that have been extremely sharp and uncomfortable to carry for lengthy intervals of time when you refused to make use of a case. Like, oddly uncomfortable to the purpose of ache that just about pressured you into utilizing a case.
When the iPhone 15 Professional line launched, Apple lastly rounded out the sides of the gadget, making it wildly extra snug within the hand and giving it that further contact of polish that allowed it to showcase how good Apple is at constructing {hardware}. After which Google simply got here together with the Pixel 9 Professional and made it equally pretty much as good as Apple’s on the primary strive.
You may see this on show within the picture above, the place each telephones’ steel frames bend or curve simply on the edges earlier than mixing into again glass. It’s that delicate curve that makes all of the distinction, to the purpose the place you’ll be able to maintain every for hours on finish.
Google went with a cultured body on the Pixel 9 Professional line (the common Pixel 9 has a matte end), whereas Apple went extra satin on the iPhone 15 Professional. Whereas the Pixel 9 Professional’s shiny steel does carry on fingerprints, it’s additionally fairly grippy whereas the iPhone 15 Professional’s satin is usually slippery within the hand. As a lot as I dislike fingerprints, this body and end selection by Google might be the proper one, once more, when you aren’t into instances.
One other wonderful selection from Google on this design could be the digicam bar. Like in earlier Pixel telephones, Google’s is lengthy and spreads throughout your complete again of the telephone, so when your gadget is sitting on a floor, it received’t wobble. That’s not the case for Apple or Samsung’s telephones, which have cameras positioned in a single nook. These might be annoying to make use of in case your set your gadget down, as touching one aspect creates motion that may be irritating to take care of. Google’s Pixel 9 Professional simply sits flat and allows you to use with out fear.
After all, Apple continues to be tossing in that giant Dynamic Island on the prime of the show, which homes their face unlock tech and is used to permit entry to pick, lively software program options. Google is solely together with a selfie digicam that takes up much less area. I’d think about that Google may use that space for extra, however I’m additionally only a fan of seeing extra show always with room for notification icons and the addition of a fingerprint sensor that not sucks. Not having to solely depend on face unlock is a giant deal.
General, I’d simply argue that Google’s Pixel 9 Professional may need a form that may get you to suppose iPhone, however this telephone continues to be very a lot a Google telephone. I’ve been utilizing Google’s new high-end units for over every week now and my solely ideas across the design are that that is Google’s most interesting work but. This {hardware} is unbelievable.
