Google Pixel Fold Review: Promising But Flawed

I love the Pixel Fold’s wide cover screen and excellent camera, but there are ways Google could improve the software experience.

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0:05 Intro
0:57 Outer Display
1:44 Inner Display
3:06 Camera
4:31 Performance
5:03 Design
6:04 Bottom Line

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[nickthaskater]

2:50 you can do that on any Android device. That's a feature of the apps, not the device.

Talking about "my preference is to use one app" has no place in whats supposed to be a review. You ought to be highlighting and testing the capability entirely.

[_Mourning_]

The only thing this was missing was battery life.

[DannerBanks]

As a fold 4 owner, I am very impressed with the thinness of the pixel fold, the width of the outside screen, and the landscape orientation when opened.

[Toogudtobetru-ox]

The outer screen size being compact is what I like about this specific foldable and the z fold 5 just has a very awkward screen ratio

[GetTheFOutOfMyWay]

Duo 2 owner... I find it HIGHLY hilarious how people keep saying they like the wide screen instead of tall narrow phones...

[rscle]

Thanks for the comparison photo of the pixel 7 pro zoom vs Pixel Folds. Been looking for more on that. I have a 6 Pro and curious to see the camera quality of my 6 pro vs Pixel Fold in 1x, 2x & 4x vs 5x of fold. Now do I get a fold when its price maybe drops one day, or get a pixel 8 pro. ugh!

[wancell]

Plan on trading in my iPhone, iPad Mini and Apple Watch if I like my Fold when it comes in this week. With all that, it will bring the price of the Fold and included Pixel Watch deal to around $600-$700. I love my iPad Mini more than my iPhone (truth to be told) so an all in one device sounds great to me. I tried the Z Fold 4 but did not like the front display and almost always rotated the it when I tried it out. Also was not a fan of having two app stores (Samsung and Google). I hope the Pixel Fold will fit the bill for what I want.

[CNormanHocker]

Inspired by the Microsoft Duo. If Microsoft had creative people and the willingness to take bigger risks, they'd be the new innovators.

[BruceLeeRoy]

$1799? Still a no from me; I’ll wait til it’s half the price in about half a year and I’ll have to see how good the battery is. Tensor’s battery efficiency sucks

[paulbacon]

Sticking with my Surface Duo 2. May upgrade when the next version comes out.

[tetzet]

I think a tablet is more practical than having a fold. Flip and tablet is a must have for me next year.

[apple-guy]

Apple really needs to step up their game and give us something like this 😍

[aliciawang-ug]

Like the part about comparison with fold 4👍

[raylegend]

Nice phone but those bezels are to big for me. 😂

[akf]

Don't know why i found "my husband and my sister" so funny

[seth.walker]

Pretty much everybody saying that the outside screen needs to be bigger and regular sized. I hope Samsung actually listen to this in the future as I understand their ZFold5 is still the same as before.

[GhostShipInc]

To me the title doesn't match the review. Not seeing how this is flawed. Perhaps some apps can't use the full screen completely?

[blaster]

You really skipped on showing Google FINALLY has made steps to make ANDROID apps work for foldables.

[danielhh]

I didn't hear any drawbacks except that there isn't anything new. 😂

[JamesBondNejc]

Does she know Galaxy has superior aspect ratio for movies