Pixel 9 Pro Fold In-Depth Review | The One to Beat?

Pixel 9 Pro Fold
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0:00 Intro
0:17 Cover Display
1:27 Fingerprint Scanner and Face Unlock
2:09 Misc Hardware
2:53 Inner Display
4:40 Screen Brightness and a Lowlight Issue
6:32 The Hinge and Build Quality
7:55 Speaker Test
9:08 Performance
14:13 Screen Dimming
14:37 Battery and Charging
16:17 Software
27:10 Peak Pixel
28:50 Camera
32:13 Wrap Up

[scaryifliteral]

Regarding screen brightness, I get that the Pixel *looks* brighter on camera, but it just isn't in real life. Note at 5:27 how much darker the black areas look on the Pixel. This is because the Z Fold screen protector is reflecting more light and making the true brightness basically impossible to capture on camera. Both are OLED, both should be totally black, but on camera, the Z Fold looks hazy and almost grey. That same thing is happening to the entire screen skewing the appearance on camera.

[zacthegamer]

Best Pixel Fold coverage on YT. I upgraded from Fold and love it.

[gagnolia]

I really respect this channel. All of the foldable news I need & care about, with none of the typical YouTube BS 🙏 thanks Shane.

[wheels]

Coming from an iPhone 15 pro the form factor is pretty new and exciting 😉

[ThomasTheTankEngine]

Been using it since the started shipping it out. Im absolutely floored by the battery life. Its way better than the specs let me to believe. Much better than my old Pixel 7Pro

[jaybailey]

I really enjoyed your breakdown of the benchmarks you didn't just give us the score but actually went into the details I've never seen that before so thank you!

[gumballdegree]

My first fold ever. I love this thing. The hinge on the left doesn't bother me. But I'm using it while opened all the time!!!

[miroslavsvoboda]

By the way - congrats to exceeding 50k followers, it signs the fact that you do a good job...

[ZachDidDat]

I really appreciate the fact that you do such an in depth review with comparisons to other foldables. Also love the case reviews you've been doing! Got my P9PF coming next week and i'm super stoked!

[touchdowntech]

Google needs to refine the look of the Google fold. The large bezels and curvy corners make it less appealing in my opinion. I think the ZF6 is a way better looking device..

[jakenasz]

that hinge on the left is disgusting lol

[jay_dub]

Great video! Thank you! I'd like to share what I learned about Gemini Live.

Reading and teaching from a digital book. You can upload a textbook or a manual in the chatbot window and then trigger Gemini Live and have an extensive conversation about the content.

Gemini Live is restricted from doing things like controlling tech. It seems intentional to use either the chatbot window in the Gemini app or screen launch because neither have continuous conversation abilities.

There are a lot of other things to make Gemini Live more useful.

[onpointsg]

I really like their approach, one thing I would like to see is having two different home screen customization. I like how Samsung can have different layouts if the phone is open or closed

[dacook]

Great review, I've been having a super hard time determining if switching from Open to P9PF but I have about the same exact feelings with Pixel devices. They're just clean, so reliable and the extra software features like Call Spam are just soo good and always draw me back to pixels.

[chuckvantoon]

Great review! I was between the galaxy fold and pixel fold as my next phone and this review sold me on the pixel! Thank you.

[raccooncityincident]

If you're into foldables, this might be one of the better ones out there! I just switched to it from my P6, and I've had a pretty mixed experience for it being my first foldable.

There's clearly some compromises around the board, and the aspect ratio of the internal display makes watching most media and games on it an awkward experience that either stretches uncomfortably, or just doesn't use most of the display, so it's down to how much you would use multitasking or Google's app suite. I also notice that when people talk about these phones, there is always the "for a foldable" caveat added to any outstanding remarks. (Ie, best battery for a foldable, great cameras for a foldable).

So if you get good use out of the internal display enough to make the high price point worth it, then it's probably a great package!

I don't think I'm personally a foldable kind of guy myself though, especially with the price tag and the additional compromises. Might end up returning it!

[blinsmaslom]

A great in-depth, intelligent and honest review! My own assessment is very similar having come from Pixel 6 Pro -> Galaxy Z Fold 4 -> Pixel 8 Pro -> Pixel 9 Pro Fold. I do miss the Dex on the Galaxy and disappointed that Google haven't replicated this on tne Pixel, given their existing ChromeOS capability.

[IkesTechTalk]

Loved this review. And I agree. Nothing ground breaking here. But they improved everything enough imo to make it so much solid all around. I've fallen for it far more than I thought I would honestly, and haven't looked at my 9 Pro XL since my Fold arrived. Still holding out hope for more foldable software features, but I could totally be okay with what it offers today. I know most, if not everyone else, will prefer something else, and that's fine. I'm good with this 9 pro fold though😂

[BEWellTech]

Great video as always. I'm enjoying my 9 Pro Fold as well, and agree on most of your points. Continue crushing it.

[Randomness]

In a world of office exec, almost industrial looking Folds, its nice that Google made one that looks so elegant to contrast them.