Following Samsung’s super early Black Friday Galaxy S24 sale, Google has launched a new promotion that hikes trade-in prices when buying the Pixel 9 series.

Android 15 introduces a completely new design to the expanded Android volume panel on Pixels — with larger, more easily adjusted sliders for specific sorts of media volumes as well as a more prominent button to shift your phone’s audio output from the phone itself to any connected devices.

The overall smartphone market for 2024 has seen stable growth after a 2023 that produced the lowest sales numbers in a decade. For Q3, things looked even brighter with the first Q3 year-over-year growth since 2018,

The images in the gallery above show the difference between two shots taken on the two phones. While both are lovely — and what a sight to behold — I much prefer the first one, taken on the Pixel 7 Pro, as the colors of the green pillars have been faithfully reproduced and very close to what our eyes saw.

Google sold more phones in the third quarter of 2024 than in any other quarter before thanks to the Pixel 9 series, which debuted in August. Google isnt anywhere close to the top five brands when it comes to market share,

The Google Pixel 9 launch drove record quarterly sales for the brand in Q3, but rival manufacturers are still selling more handsets.

Google Pixel 9 Pro pre-order sale starts in India on Flipkart. The Pixel 9 Pro will be available in India at Rs 1,09,900 for the 16GB RAM + 256GB internal storage variant.