Pixel 11 Pro Fold: Google's thinnest, lightest foldable yet
Google launches Pixel 11 Pro Fold
Google has unveiled the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, its most sophisticated foldable to date. It's nearly 10% lighter and about 1mm thinner than its predecessor, with a more durable design including a glass fiber composite back, a gearless hinge, and a ceramic-covered outer display. The phone features a new 48MP main camera, a HiLight LED camera bar for glanceable notifications, and improved battery life with faster charging. Powered by the Tensor G6 chip and 16GB of RAM, it introduces sign-to-text translation and optimized multitasking bubbles.
Pixel 11 Pro Fold is here, and it’s our most sophisticated foldable yet.
- cobolcomesback
I am so amused at the “HiLight” feature (lighting up colored LEDs for notifications so you can see them “at a glance” without looking at the screen). This is a feature that was on the Android phones of old (including the original G1) and I loved it, but it got phased out in favor of “always on displays”… which apparently now we want less of!
It’s funny how trends like this are a circle sometimes.
- cautiouscat
I used to be a "cutting edge phone guy" where I'd get the latest iPhone ever year and the thought of having the older phone just didn't sit well with me. These days though the upgrades are so marginal I don't even care. I'm looking forward to upgrading my three year old phone this year, but not because I expect it to be more than "better camera, faster and thinner" but just because its time.
These updates are so boring now!
- rvshchwl
These phones are getting larger each release, and it's the opposite of the trend I prefer now. I really am starting to miss the SE phone sizes and not feeling like I'm carrying a literal brick in my pocket wherever I go now. I don't think Apple is cutting back on the phone size either when their Fold comes out, and we're slowly just moving towards the point where a phone is just a mini tablet.
- onion2k
Maybe I'm being too cynical, but all the benefits in the video intro are either things that aren't benefits of the hardware (screen calls without looking, Gemini, tap less do more) or they're compensations for the foldable screen (30% more durable, 20% brighter ... than the last Fold, but likely still worse than non-folding phones.)
I don't see that as a product video that's telling me why I need one. It's just telling me that they've iterated on the last model. I mean, congrats, well done, but why should I buy it?
- trollbridge
The Fold still has 16GB of RAM. The 11 Pro and 11 Pro XL both got nerfed to 12GB.
You also only get 6 months of a free Google AI Pro subscription (a $120 value) as opposed to the 12 months with the 10 (a $240 value). It's hard to see the 11 as an upgrade.
- silisili
Why is Google averse to larger batteries? The Chinese makers have been stuffing 8000ish mah batteries in rather diminutive phones for two or three years now, and Google is releasing one in 2026 with about half that.
- sawjet
You know, maybe cameras are good enough, and I don't want a tumor at the top edge of my phone that gets tiresome to hold after 5 minutes.
- is_true
Does anyone had a good experience with foldable phones? The only people I know that bought one had them broken near the 2 year mark.
My phone from 2018 it's still working perfectly.