The Pixel 9A’s version of Gemini is missing a few features

The Google Pixel 9A whitethorn person the aforesaid Tensor G4 spot arsenic its much costly counterparts, but it comes pinch a text-only type of Gemini AI. Google confirmed to Ars Technica that the Pixel 9A doesn’t person entree to definite features, for illustration the AI-powered Pixel Screenshots app, because of the phone’s little 8GB of memory.

Unlike the Gemini Nano XS exemplary that comes pinch the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro Fold, the Pixel 9A has an moreover smaller on-device AI model: Gemini Nano 1.0 XXS, according to Ars Technica. For comparison, the Pixel 9 comes pinch 12GB of RAM, while the Pixel 9 Pro and Pro Fold person 16GB. On the Pixel 9A, Gemini Nano XXS only runs erstwhile needed, and doesn’t run successful the background, Ars Technica says.

Along with Pixel Screenshots, which uses AI to make your screenshots searchable, Ars Technica besides confirmed that the Pixel 9A doesn’t support Call Notes, a characteristic that generates AI summaries of telephone calls. It tin still supply summaries of audio from the Recorder app, however, since it relies connected transcriptions.

Last year, Google only added Gemini AI to the Pixel 8 Pro – not the Pixel 8 – but later launched it connected the midrange device pursuing personification complaints. The exemplary utilized connected the Pixel 8 is Gemini Nano XXS, Google tells Ars Technica.