Google officially unveiled its newest foldable, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, at the company’s August 13th Made By Google event.
If you’re thinking about picking up the latest Google foldable, you’ll be interested in hearing about all the new specs and features coming to the series this time around.
Scroll down to learn everything you need to know about the brand-new Pixel 9 Pro Fold, including key updates to the design, screen, camera, performance and software, as well as key details regarding pricing and availability and our initial opinion on the successor to the OG Pixel Fold.
Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold: At a glance
- The Pixel 9 Pro Fold will be available from September 4th (pre-orders open now)
- Prices for the foldable start at $1749/£1749
- The phone is slimmer and more durable than the Google Pixel Fold
- The Pixel 9 Pro Fold’s display is 80% brighter
- The triple camera is led by a 48-megapixel sensor and offers 5x optical zoom
- The phone is powered by the Google Tensor G4 chipset
- The Pixel 9 Pro Fold runs Android 14 with new Gemini AI features
Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold release date & pricing
The Pixel 9 Pro Fold was announced on August 13th 2024. Pre-orders are open now, with the phone set to arrive on shelves on September 4th.
The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is priced at $1749/£1749 with 256GB of storage or $1869/£1869 with 512GB of storage.
Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold design and screen
The Pixel 9 Pro Fold has a slimmer, more durable design this time around.
The foldable features a matte black finish with a satin metal frame and a polished hinge. It’s thinner than the original Pixel Fold at 10.5mm folded and 5.1mm unfolded and weighs just 257g.
The Pixel 9 Pro Fold has an IP rating of IPX8, meaning it can survive depths of 1m underwater for up to 30 minutes. However, the 9 Pro Fold does not carry any protection against solids, meaning we wouldn’t advise you place it anywhere particularly dusty or sandy, such as on the beach.
The cover display and rear of the phone are built from durable Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2, while the hinge has been upgraded with high-strength aluminium alloy-covered stainless steel.
The large 8-inch Super Actua Flex folding display is 80% brighter than that of its predecessor, and ideal for streaming movies on a large screen or multitasking in its Split Screen mode.
Meanwhile, the 6.3-inch cover display allows you to use the Pixel 9 Pro Fold like a regular phone when folded, or prop the phone up in tabletop or tent mode to watch content and snap selfies hands-free.
Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold camera
The Pixel 9 Pro Fold features a triple camera system, including a 48-megapixel wide-angle camera, a 10.5-megapixel ultra-wide camera with Macro Focus and a 10.8-megapixel telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom and up to 20x Super Res Zoom.
The foldable also features a 10-megapixel front camera on the cover screen and a second 10-megapixel selfie camera on the folding display for snapping selfies and joining video calls.
Of course, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold camera also takes advantage of a range of useful AI software features, including Night Sight Video for low-light recording, Add Me to add the photographer to a group photo, and Magic Editor to reframe and crop photos or expand them to add more to a scene.
Other popular editing tools include the Magic Eraser, Best Take and Photo Unblur, among others.
Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold performance and software
The Pixel 9 Pro Fold is powered by the Google Tensor G4, which includes the Titan M2 security coprocessor. This is the same chipset found inside the new Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL.
The chip is paired with 16GB of RAM and either 256 or 512GB of storage.
The 9 Fold Pro ships with Android 14 and Google promises up to seven years of OS, security and Pixel Drop feature updates from the phone’s launch date.
Google’s Gemini AI assistant is also baked into the foldable, with the device’s split screen function making it easy to chat with Gemini while completing other tasks. You can press and hold the power button to learn, plan and write things, while Google Translate takes advantage of the two screens to translate two sides of a conversation at once.
The phone also comes with one year of Google One AI Premium, allowing you to access additional AI features, including Gemini Advanced, Gemini in Gmail and Google Docs and 2TB of cloud storage.
Trusted Take
We’re really impressed by what we’ve seen from the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold so far, as it looks to fix practically every complaint that we had with the first-gen foldable.
The flatter design and square inner screen bring it in line with the rest of the foldable competition, which should also solve Google’s issue of getting apps to display properly on the inner screen, and the camera housing has been redesigned too.
It also boasts the latest chipset as it has launched alongside the rest of the Pixel 9 family, with the Tensor G4 expected to bring big performance gains over the ageing Tensor G2 available in the first-gen foldable. The upgraded AI smarts are also a welcome addition, especially considering just how AI-infused Samsung’s competing Galaxy Z Fold 6 is, and they sound genuinely helpful rather than gimmicky.
This looks to be the foldable that Google should’ve launched last year, and we’re excited to go hands-on in the near future.
