Pixel 9 Pro Fold
The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is an Android-powered foldable smartphone designed, developed, and marketed by Google as part of the Google Pixel product line. It serves as the successor to the first-generation Pixel Fold. It was officially announced on August 13, 2024, at the annual Made by Google event, and was released in the United States on September 4, 2024.
History
In October 2023, 9to5Google reported that a second Android-powered foldable smartphone was in development at Google, codenamed “Comet”. This came after the release of the first-generation Pixel Fold the previous year.After previewing the phone in July 2024, Google officially announced the phone on August 13, alongside the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, and Pixel Watch 3, at the annual Made by Google event. The Pixel 9 Pro Fold was released on September 4.
Specifications
Design
The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold is a foldable smartphone, meaning it has a flexible display. This allows the phone to be either folded, or unfolded.The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold features a redesigned appearance, with a taller and slimmer display compared to the previous generation Pixel Fold. It has been measured to be 1.5 mm thinner when closed, and 0.7 mm thinner when open compared to its predecessor.
The Pixel 9 Pro Fold comes in 2 colors: Porcelain and Obsidian. They are shown below:
Hardware
The Pixel 9 Pro Fold uses OLED displays on both the cover display, and the internal display. The cover display has a screen size of 6.3 in, while the inner display has a screen size of 8 in.There are 3 rear-facing cameras:
- The 48 MP Quad PD wide angle camera, which has an ƒ/1.7 aperture, an 82° field of view, and a 1/2" image sensor size. The wide angle camera also allows for image stabilization.
- The 10.5 MP Dual PD autofocus ultra-wide camera, which has an ƒ/2.2 aperture, a 127° field of view, and a 1/3.4" image sensor size.
- The 10.8 MP Dual PD telephoto camera, which has an ƒ/3.1 aperture, a 23° field of view, and a 1/3.2" image sensor size. The telephoto lens allows for 5x optical zoom, Super Res Zoom up to 20x and image stabilization.
The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is powered by the fourth-generation of Google's Tensor series of chips, as well as the Titan M2 security coprocessor. The Pixel 9 Pro Fold comes with a new modem, the Samsung Exynos Modem 5400. The new modem allows for better call quality, as well as the ability to connect to emergency services via satellite. Similar to the Emergency SOS feature released by Apple on the iPhone 14, this feature allows users to alert emergency services of danger through the use of satellites if the user is in a situation where they are unable to connect to Wi-Fi or a mobile network.
The Pixel 9 Pro Fold comes with 16 GB of RAM, and allows the user to choose between either 256 GB of storage or 512 GB of storage.
The Pixel 9 Pro Fold has a 4650mAh battery, which, according to GSMarena's testing, is equivalent to 11 hours and 54 minutes of screen time. It also has support for 45W fast charging, and supports Qi-certified wireless charging.
Software
The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold shipped with many new artificial intelligence and Gemini features. These include updates such as Gemini Live, AI photo editing tools, and Pixel Studio. For a full list of new AI features, see the article .At launch, the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold shipped with Android 14. However, on the 15th of October 2024, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, along with the other phones in the Pixel 9 series of products, received an update to Android 15. Google has claimed that the Pixel 9 Pro fold will receive a total of 7 years of OS and security updates, meaning the phone will be supported until 2031.