with dual 120 hertz OLED displays the tensor G2 5 cameras and a 4 800 milliamp hour battery with
wireless charging the Google pixel fold is a great addition to the foldable market and there's only
one issue the price so normally I don't discuss the price first but I feel it's probably going to
be the main drawback for a lot of you when it's 1 750 pounds in the UK or eighteen hundred dollars
in the USA and just looking at the specs on paper that makes it very expensive when you compare it
to other Flagship foldables which have got better specs and also cost less this is probably the
hardest phone review I've done for a while because the pixel fold excels in design and software and
I've been using it every single day for a week now and I love it but it does still have its
downfalls and of course I didn't actually pay for this Google sent it free for review so if we start
with the positives the front display is incredible it's 120 hertz a 5.8 inch OLED we've got a 17.4x9
aspect ratio a full HD Plus resolution of 2092 by 1080 a peak brightness of 1550 nits and is
protected by Gorilla Glass vectors it's wider than all of the other foldable phones in this
new passport shape and using it is a pleasure for browsing your apps and especially when typing and
I don't ever need to open it up it also looks nice and premium looking on the front and the back and
best of all the finish on the rear doesn't leave horrible fingerprints on your phone when you open
it up however the whole experience gets that little bit less premium now before it arrived
I'd seen lots of pictures online and I was mainly put off by the big bezels but in in actual fact
it hasn't bothered me as much as I thought it was going to and because I've got the Black Version
the bezels are also much less obvious than on the white one but for such an expensive phone I would
have expected thinner bezels another issue I've got is with the fold it folds completely flat
together when folded the hinge is also very strong and stiff so you can have it at any
angle you want except for completely open when you open it up fully it's not a true 180 degree unfold
it's very close but it's not quite there now this didn't really bother me too much in my use but I
can't help but feel it makes that Center crease a little bit more noticeable when I'm using it
and I'm sure some of you are also going to find this frustrating the display also has a ridge
around the edge of the display and it's slightly sunken in about a millimeter below the bezels so
you can feel it when you're swiping past the edge of the screen but I assume this is to protect the
display the inside screen is however another positive of the phone and it's another 120
hertz a 7.6 inch OLED we've got an aspect ratio of 6x5 5 2208 by 1840 resolution then 1450 nits
of peak brightness with the ultra thin glass protection Now using the screen is a pleasure
it's smooth fast and responsive and everything it just looks great including the color now one
thing that always gets me with foldable phones though is the aspect ratio I see them as a good
device for watching media on a larger screen on the go the most popular video format is 16x9 yet
we don't have anything close to that we still get big black bars when watching content on the
other side of that however a lot of the Google applications have been very well optimized for
the fold and the experience is incredible with the larger inside display on Gmail I've got my emails
over on the left hand side so I can scroll through and pick from then the email content is displayed
on the right hand side you can scroll through both independently if you want to read an email
in full screen you just flip the fold 90 degrees and continue to read the email now Google photos
we've got the menus down the left hand side with all the photos displayed on the rest of the screen
YouTube will go all sorts of different layouts available in different orientations and they all
work incredibly well when watching videos that you can go through at the description and comments on
the left or searching for your next video to watch on the right now over on maps we've got
all of the information on the left with the map on the right and it's pretty much well optimized
for all of the Google labs when opening apps that aren't optimized for the fold however it is a bit
hit or miss some of them are just going to work well on a larger screen and others aren't going
to work quite as well if we just take a look at a few so Facebook I get just over half a screen
which is annoying but with any app that doesn't fit the screen you can move it to your liking by
double tapping where you want it to go and also if I flip the phone 90 degrees Then I then get
full screen now Twitter is the same as Facebook so just over half a screen then full screen flipped
the other way and then Tick Tock we just get the video in the middle but the app is a full screen
experience so it's luck of the draw at the moment there's no doubt going to improve over time as
more and more apps are optimized for the different phone available it's easy to switch between your
previously opened apps with a nice layout that shows plenty of them on the screen at once then
we've also got the new Google taskbar which you can swipe up when using an app this shows
you a list of recent apps and it's incredibly useful to open them and it also makes it easy
to set up multitasking if you want a split screen experience you just drag the app from the bottom
into the second part of the screen now one thing I'd like to see here in future is running two
instances of the same app for multitasking there are workarounds up by installing two applications
of the same and it does actually work within Chrome at the moment it just gives you another
tab but overall the multitasking experience is just incredible now another big positive for me
is actually the keyboard the exterior screen is wide enough for me to type quickly without making
lots of mistakes then the inside screen we get a keyboard at the split into two halves and it's a
little bit weird at first but after sending a few messages or typing a couple of emails you
get used to it and it becomes easy to type fast and accurately now a downside to the phone is the
lack of customization between folded and unfolded modes if you make any changes to the home screen
it's going to make those changes on both so you can't run independent layouts between the two if
you look at it in unfolded mode everything on the left hand side is basically what you're going to
get in folded mode and for those of you using your own wallpapers you also can't set one for folded
and one for unfolded so you just set the wallpaper for your unfolded screen and then when you look at
the folded version it's the same wallpaper used but it's centered and the sides are cut off so
a little bit of annoyance for those of you that do like customization but hopefully we will see
some changes in future updates and when it comes to the cameras we've got a 48 megapixel primary a
10.8 megapixel Ultra wide and a 10.8 megapixel telephoto on the rear and it's a 9.5 megapixel
selfie camera on the front then an 8 megapixel selfie camera above the inside display now the
photos are great and they're pretty much exactly what you'd expect from a pixel phone whatever
you're taking from and whatever camera you're using it you're going to get great quality photos
with great color great detail and good exposure across all of the photos unfortunately it's not
as good as the camera system on the pixel 7 Pro as we do have smaller sensors but compared to
the other foldables I'm very happy with the photo performance overall of course a big Advantage with
foldables is being able to have the phone unfolded and then we can use the rear camera for selfies
and still have the viewfinder so you'll be able to use that to take better selfies than a normal
smartphone and when it comes to video we get great video we can take 4K videos at 60 frames a second
on every single camera except the inner display selfie camera and again the video quality is great
and the only issue I've had is a little bit of noise when taking videos in Darker scenes
now this is the video from the ultra wide camera
so this is electronic stabilization only at no Optical 4K at 60 frames a second
I am walking so we'll see how the stabilization performs but if I just stop pan round
and Back Again
so this is a video from the telephoto camera on the pixel folder I'm not walking just yet
because obviously we're at two times Zoom just do a pan and see how it performs with that
I'm back and then if I just walk forward you'll see how the stabilization performs
but that's the two times telephoto camera video from the front facing camera on the pixel fold
again it's 4K 60 frames a second pretty good in the viewfinder so we'll have to see how
it comes out the computer I'm also walking it so we'll see how the stabilization comes out
roll it looks pretty good now this is a video up from the front-facing camera on the internal
display so not as good as the external display but it still looks okay in the viewfinder again
I have to wait till we get on the computer so I can look at it properly but overall it looks like
a good camera although at the same time don't really think you're going to be using this one
too much now we also get stereo speakers along with a three microphone and noise cancellation
system the speakers sound nice and they're great for watching media they've got a lot
of clarity to them but they are lacking a little bit of bass they also don't go that loud which
means that they're not going to be great if you like to use your phone to listen to music
the residents of element City Air usually has their head in the cloud oh my new jacket for
those concerned it with synthetic benchmarks over on geekbench 6 we get a single core score of 1450
then a multiple score of 3283 on Wildlife we get an overall score of 6367 with an average
frame rate of 38.1 so it's good scores for the benchmarks and the tensor G2 is a very capable
chip with great AI it's just not got the Real Performance power of something like the Snapdragon
hn2 for gaming it performs incredibly well though I installed Asphalt 9 and Call of Duty mobile and
as you can see here over on Asphalt 9 it looks stunning on this large display the gameplay is
smooth and responsive and there's no drop frames or stuttering it's the same story over on Call of
Duty mobile with high graphic settings and high frame rates it's incredible to play the only
thing to note with folds though is that you want to open the game with the screen orientation you
want to play in is if you play it with the inner display and then switch to the external display
you may have some weird aspect ratios depending on the game for those who enjoy a bit of gaming it's
going to be a great choice but if gaming is your main focus from a phone you'll probably be better
off with something powered by the Snapdragon hn2 Now battery life is also okay but it's not the
best it's lasting me the day with heavy use of all my apps and media although sometimes I find
myself on low percentages in the evening to 4821 milliamp hour battery with 30 watt fast charge
using a wire then seven and a half watt wireless charging so that's better than no fast charge but
it's nothing groundbreaking now overall as I said I love the pixel fold it just offers a software
experience like no other folding phone on top of all the other goodies from Google like magic
eraser and photo and blur its size not only makes it comfortable to hold but also comfortable in my
pocket and whether or not you should purchase one really comes down to your personal preference if
you're a true pixel fan and want to fold then of course it's probably going to be a yes and if your
preference is on usability and optimization then I'd say it's definitely worth considering but if
you're someone who cares more about the hardware and the performance then maybe hold off and wait
for something like the z-fold 5 because rumors have said that a fold 5 could be even cheaper
than the previous years so you'll be getting better specs at a cheaper price but especially
for their first folding phone though Google have done a great job here if it was a little
bit cheaper then it would make it a much easier recommendation to buy and it's only the huge price
tag that makes it a much harder decision but that's pretty much it for me on the pixel fold
if there's anything I've missed or you've got any questions and then just ask them in the comments
below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can but thanks for watching the video if you liked
it smash a thumbs up if you didn't hit the thumbs down twice and I'll see you guys in the next one