Google is putting artificial intelligence rather than new hardware at the center of its Pixel 11 pitch this year, with the phone’s Gemini Intelligence system now able to complete real world tasks like ordering groceries, booking rides and calling businesses to make reservations on a user’s behalf.

The Pixel 11 Pro starts at $1,099, according to 9to5Google’s hands on coverage from the August 12 launch event, with hardware changes across the lineup described by TechCrunch as modest compared to the software push behind them. Google is framing this year’s release around what it calls agentic AI, where Gemini acts on instructions across multiple apps rather than simply answering questions in a chat window.

For US based users, Gemini can now place phone calls to businesses to handle tasks such as booking a table or scheduling an appointment, a feature that moves the assistant beyond its previous role as a chatbot confined to its own interface. Google says Gemini now works across the operating system, surfacing information from different apps automatically when it judges that context would be useful to the user.

The camera system carries its own AI showcase feature called Magic Capture, which continuously analyzes a scene instead of forcing users to choose between shooting a photo or a video. During a typical session, Magic Capture processes around 400 frames using a combination of on device intelligence and Gemini models, then selects, crops and sharpens the best moment into a finished 12 megapixel photo automatically.

Hardware upgrades center on the new Tensor G6 chip, which Google says delivers 50 percent more processing power for on device AI tasks. The zoom range has also grown, with the Pro model’s telephoto now reaching 120x, up from 100x last year, while the base Pixel 11 moves from 20x to 30x zoom.

Android Central’s early impressions described the software changes as raising the bar for what AI on a phone can do, though how much of that depends on Gemini’s cloud connection rather than on device processing remains an open question reviewers are still testing ahead of wider availability.