The Pixel 9 Pro Fold Is $600 Off Ahead Of The New Model’s Debut

Some group for illustration to enactment connected nan cutting separator 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 personification who prefers to usage these opportunities to prevention connected last-gen tech, you’ve been rewarded pinch a saccharine woody connected nan Pixel 9 Pro Fold. The guidelines 256GB type successful obsidian (black) is down to $1,199 astatine Amazon and Best Buy, which is 33 percent disconnected its original $1,799 price. It was trading for $100 much conscionable past week.

The Pixel 9 Pro Fold was a large leap guardant compared to Google’s first-gen foldable, touting a lightweight creation that looks and feels for illustration a normal telephone earlier you unfold it. One of its main drawbacks was that, contempt its precocious original price, you don’t get nan aforesaid awesome cameras successful nan cheaper Pixel 9 Pro (which, by nan way, is only $599 astatine Best Buy). They’re still good, mind you, but reviewer Allison Johnson said during her testing that its telephoto lens produced softer images by comparison, and low-light photos were little detailed. Drawbacks aside, she was eager to urge nan foldable telephone astatine its original $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 creation in YouTube clips, and it’s very akin to nan exemplary connected waste now. However, there’s a rumor that it mightiness person an IP68 rating, which would make it dustproof. Dust was nan kryptonite for early foldable models, but nan tech has apparently travel a agelong measurement since then, truthful this would beryllium a immense trading constituent successful favour of nan caller exemplary if it’s true.

Read our afloat Pixel 9 Pro Fold review.

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