Googlefoldable smartphoneLast featured Nov 2024
Google Pixel Fold
I'd skip itI'd give this a miss.
Wooden spoon winner: good software ideas but hardware that looks like a shelved prototype for the price.
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- Price when I covered it
- eighteen hundred dollars
- Featured in
- 4 videos · 2023–2024
- Category
- Phones · Foldables
What I liked
- useful innovative software
- Slim, solid build with a flat-folding hinge
- Software and responsiveness
- Camera software features such as Magic Eraser and Super Res Zoom
- Water resistance
What I didn't
- Big bezels
- Bad crease
- Barely folded flat
- visible crease
- too expensive
- proof of concept rather than competitive product
In my words
Straight from the video. Tap a timestamp to hear me say it.
“this was one of the worst phones of 2023”
“this genuinely looks like some shelv prototype from 5 years ago that got accidentally released”
“those bezels and that crease for this price is quite disappointing”
“this isn't the destination this is the journey towards something in the future”
“if we're solely looking at the Core Construction of this device it is bordering on the elite”
“I love holding this thing I love using this thing”
Every time I covered it
Most recent first, so you can see if my view has changed.
1:44The BEST Smartphones of 2024!Last year's first-gen foldable was one of the worst phones of 2023, with big bezels and a bad crease.
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14:54The BEST Smartphones of 2023!Wooden spoon winner: good software ideas but hardware that looks like a shelved prototype for the price.
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0:42The Future of Smartphones with Google’s CEOArun questions whether a foldable is a finished product given its bulk and duplicated parts, while Pichai defends it as a step towards the future.
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0:00The Google Pixel Fold is Weird.Brilliantly built and a joy to use thanks to Google's software, but the high price, thick bezels, visible crease and older chip make it hard to recommend yet.
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Why it's on these shelves
- Premium tax
“for the price of one of these you can literally get yourself like 6 and a half Poco X5 Pros”
▶ 15:37 - Premium tax
“I'm finding the super high price tag paired with some obvious Hardware compromises like the bezels the crease and the chip a little hard to digest”
▶ 0:10 - Camera nerd
“probably the best example of technically middling Hardware turned around by strong software is the cameras”
▶ 0:08
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