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Great news! I am planning to buy a pixel and still undecided about whether to buy an 8 or 9. In my area the 9 costs around 400 USD more and the main improvements seem to be 12 GB ram instead of 8 and a little more processing power. Then there is a lot of talk about ai stuff, which are probably all based on Google's spyware, so no, thanks. what are your thoughts?