Recommending a phone to Creative Bloq’s discerning audience is a tricky proposition. Readers who are at home with thunderous tower PCs full of GPUs, or sleek laptops that nonetheless carry the computing power of a whole room of computers from a decade ago, are not going to be impressed by a phone, no matter how fast the CPU inside runs.
What Google has done with the Pixel 9 Pro, however, remains interesting. It takes an excellent camera array and puts it behind a bright OLED screen, then packs the software with AI tricks and gives it a long battery life. There may be phones out there that do better in the benchmark tests, but there are few that are as easy to live with, meaning the Google Pixel 9 Pro stays among the best camera phones on the market.
