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Smartphone buyers meh on AI, care more about battery life

A CNET survey found many consumers aren't sold on mobile AI offerings from companies like Apple, Google and Samsung -- especially if they have to pay for access.

Google also leaned heavily into AI features when it unveiled the Pixel 9 series in August, spending much of its keynote discussing new Gemini functions like Live, which lets you have a natural-sounding, back-and-forth conversation with the virtual assistant. For instance, your phone's camera uses AI to process images and blur backgrounds in Portrait mode, and Siri and Google Assistant have always been AI-based (albeit using less advanced versions of the tech). At its Worldwide Developers Conference in June, for instance, Apple noted many of its AI models run on-device, which is generally considered more private, since information doesn't have to travel over the internet.

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