Google’s latest Pixel update enhances security with AI-powered scam detection, enables smoother multilingual conversations, and improves image and screen orientation.

The Google Pixel 9 was released last August, starting at $799 for the model with 128GB of storage, and rising to $899 for double that. In the intervening months, prices have dropped, and you can now get one for as low as $599 if you shop around.

With Google rumored to be shipping a new phone soon, a Google Pixel 9a vs. Pixel 8a comparison can give you sense of what's coming and how it differs from last year's model.

A lthough it was easy to forget in a year filled with so many Pixels, I quite liked Google's Pixel 8a. The company's current — for now, at least — mid-ranger improved immensel