Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold Hands On: Still Playing Catch-up

The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is simply a earthy improvement of past year’s Pixel Fold, not conscionable due to the fact that it’s getting a fig and “Pro” successful its name. It’s a translation due to the fact that Google is implementing a batch of what some Samsung and OnePlus person done good with their foldable successful a somewhat bigger frame. Still, I’m unsure if it has capable successful the bundle oregon hardware departments to basal retired conscionable yet. 

At archetypal glance, the $1,800 Pixel 9 Pro Fold is simply a acold slimmer instrumentality than past year’s. It ditched the rounded corners and boosted the size from a 5.8-inch exterior surface to a 6.3-inch Actua display. It’s the aforesaid size arsenic the Pixel 9 Pro but somewhat thicker. The Fold has gone from a 7.6-inch unfolded show to a afloat 8-inches display. It’s a broader telephone than the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, adjacent aft the Korean Android rival squared up its flagship foldable. 

Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold: Design

It Has a Bigger Screen, but It Still Lacks Floating Windows

When I picked up the latest Pixel Fold, a fewer different things instantly jumped out. It’s lighter, overmuch lighter than before. The hinge enactment is acold smoother than past year’s device. It wants to outpouring unfastened erstwhile it reaches a definite threshold, overmuch similar the fantabulous OnePlus Open. Google has wholly redesigned the hinge, which has reduced those mammoth Pixel Fold bezels by a sizeable degree.

It feels similar the telephone Google should person released the archetypal time. There’s inactive a noticeable crease, but it feels little noticeable than past time. Despite the size bump, Google’s not winning successful particulate resistance. The caller telephone is rated IPX 8 for h2o absorption up to 3 feet of h2o for 30 minutes, but it has little stated particulate absorption than the Galaxy Z Flip 6. 

On the bundle side, we’re inactive a fewer iterations behind. Samsung’s foldables fto you make floating windows you tin shove astir the bigger interior screen. Google’s Fold sequel inactive limits users to divided screen. It’s not a immense deal, particularly since I dislike manipulating tiny windows with heavy fingers. Google says it’s worked with different app makers to marque them acold easier to work connected divided view, but we’ll person to trial much apps for ourselves.

There’s 1 sizable improvement. Now, you tin pin the taskbar to the bottommost of the exterior screen. This is simply a precise bully diagnostic for those who privation arsenic overmuch of a Windows-like acquisition connected an Android device.

Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold: Camera

The Pixel 9 Pro Sports a More Impressive Camera Array Than the Fold

Google kept its past Pixel Fold abstracted from its numbered Pixel telephone series. It seems similar it volition beryllium an alternate to the Mountain View company’s regular cellular slate. However, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold differs greatly from the Pixel 9 Pro successful galore ways. Yeah, it has much surface space, but its camera array is little susceptible than the latest Google flagship. 

You’ll announcement a quadrate camera bump connected the Pixel 9 Pro Fold alternatively of the accustomed pill-shaped camera bar. The caller Fold includes a 48 MP wide, a 10.5 MP ultrawide, and a 10.8 MP 5x telephoto lens. The 9 Pro carries a 50 MP wide and a monolithic 48 MP ultrawide with the company’s “Macro Focus” lens and a 48 MP 5x telephoto. The 9 Pro Fold volition beryllium a worse shooter than its cheaper relative without each that foldable capabilities. Google said it constricted the Fold’s cameras to prevention connected value and size. 

To compensate for those concessions, the Pro 9 Fold has a fewer other features, including 1 that makes taking photos of easy distracted children easier. It’s called Made You Look, and essentially, the telephone volition show a silly, kid-friendly animation connected the beforehand surface that distracts maine arsenic overmuch arsenic it does toddlers. 

Otherwise, you get different Pixel 9 additions, similar the useful Add Me. The diagnostic is an summation to the Magic Editor suite that lets you instrumentality a photo, manus it off, and leap into the frame. It is acold easier to enactment each of Google’s AI photograph apparatus with an 8-inch surface than with thing smaller. Plus, I was amazed astatine however good this worked, making it look similar some were successful the framework astatine the aforesaid time. I tin ideate this volition fto you debar awkward moments erstwhile you don’t privation to inquire strangers to instrumentality photos of your full household portion connected vacation.