In an age where the consumer tech industry is wholly committed to AI, it’s completely safe to expect that Google, one of THE AI companies right now, is pushing that element as the killer feature with the new Pixel 11 Pro. Sure enough, the phone’s launch has come and gone, and having spent time with the phone, there’s good news, and news that could go either way.

Let’s deal with that uncertainty first by framing it as bad news. And that is, if you were looking forward to using all of those agentic AI capabilities, they are absent. With that out of the way, the good news is that, barring some Tensor-specific oddities, the Google Pixel 11 Pro is as good as you’d expect a flagship with vanilla Android to be.