The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is $600 off ahead of the new model’s debut

Some radical similar to enactment connected the cutting borderline of technology. If that’s you, you already cognize that Google is going to officially unveil its Pixel 10 phones (including a caller Fold) during its August 20th event. But if you’re idiosyncratic who prefers to usage these opportunities to prevention connected last-gen tech, you’ve been rewarded with a saccharine woody connected the Pixel 9 Pro Fold. The basal 256GB mentation successful obsidian (black) is down to $1,199 astatine Amazon and Best Buy, which is 33 percent disconnected its archetypal $1,799 price. It was selling for $100 much conscionable past week.

Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold

Where to Buy:

• $1799 $1199 astatine Amazon (256GB)
• $1799 $1199 astatine Best Buy (256GB)
• $1799 astatine Google (256GB)

The Pixel 9 Pro Fold was a large leap guardant compared to Google’s first-gen foldable, touting a lightweight plan that looks and feels similar a mean telephone earlier you unfold it. One of its main drawbacks was that, contempt its precocious archetypal price, you don’t get the aforesaid large cameras successful the cheaper Pixel 9 Pro (which, by the way, is lone $599 astatine Best Buy). They’re inactive good, caput you, but reviewer Allison Johnson said during her investigating that its telephoto lens produced softer images by comparison, and low-light photos were little detailed. Drawbacks aside, she was anxious to urge the foldable telephone astatine its archetypal $1,800 price.

The Pixel 10 Pro Fold is astir upon us, and it’ll apt present immoderate sizeable improvements. Google itself has already shown disconnected its plan in YouTube clips, and it’s precise akin to the exemplary connected merchantability now. However, there’s a rumor that it mightiness person an IP68 rating, which would marque it dustproof. Dust was the kryptonite for aboriginal foldable models, but the tech has seemingly travel a agelong mode since then, truthful this would beryllium a immense selling constituent successful favour of the caller exemplary if it’s true.

Read our afloat Pixel 9 Pro Fold review.

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