Deals: Google Pixel 11 series pre-orders start

Google launched its caller Pixel 11 bid earlier this week – determination is simply a caller vanilla, 2 caller Pro and 1 caller foldable model. All that’s missing present is an affordable a-phone.

The monolithic summation successful RAM prices has affected the Pixel series. Google present offers 256GB retention arsenic modular connected each 11-series models, which is simply a bully thing, but the Pixel 11 Pro and 11 Pro XL commencement with 12GB of RAM. If you privation 16GB (which is what each Pixel 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL phones had), you volition person to get a 512GB oregon a 1TB model. The vanilla telephone lone comes with 12GB of RAM, portion the foldable ever gets 16GB.

The Pixel 11 bid is presently connected pre-order and volition beryllium disposable from August 20. During that time, Amazon is offering a trade-in bonus (extra wealth connected apical of the aged device’s value).

The vanilla Google Pixel 11 is powered by the aforesaid Tensor G6 chipset arsenic its much costly siblings. However, it misses retired connected the HiLight RGB LED. Oh well. At slightest it has a larger main camera sensor than the Pixel 10 (48MP 1/1.56” vs. 1/2.0”), portion keeping the 5x/112mm 10.8MP telephoto and 13MP ultra-wide cameras the same.

The caller exemplary besides features faster 25W Pixelsnap magnetic wireless charging (up from 15W), but wired charging is the aforesaid astatine a slow-ish 30W rate. The artillery capableness is the aforesaid excessively – Google is betting that the much businesslike G6 spot volition amended artillery life.

The Google Pixel 11 Pro does person HiLight – it’s an RGB LED adjacent to the cameras connected the back, which serves arsenic a notification airy and is besides utilized by the Gemini AI. The Pro exemplary has a 6.3” OLED display, which is the aforesaid size arsenic the vanilla phone, but it is simply a sharper (1280p+ vs. 1080p+) LTPO panel. The artillery capableness is fundamentally the aforesaid arsenic past twelvemonth arsenic is the 30W wired charging. Wireless charging has been upgraded to 25W similar connected the vanilla model.

The Pro has much susceptible cameras, though they are mostly the aforesaid arsenic past year. This includes a 50MP main with a ample 1/1.3” sensor and a 48MP ultra-wide with an autofocus lens. The telephoto camera is antithetic – it has a 48MP 1/1.95” sensor and a 5x/106mm lens compared to a 48MP 1/2.55” sensor and a 113mm lens connected the 10 Pro. It remains to beryllium seen however overmuch of a quality this makes.

The Google Pixel 11 Pro XL is conscionable a larger Pro – it has a 6.8” show (1334p+, LTPO) and a 5,115mAh battery. That’s not truthful large – successful fact, it’s 85mAh smaller than the 10 Pro XL battery. The caller XL exemplary has 45W wired and 25W wireless charging, the aforesaid arsenic the aged XL. Wired charging seems to beryllium marginally faster, though, going up to 75% successful fractional an hour, compared to 70%. We volition beryllium investigating that successful our review.

For the Pixel 11 Pro XL (but not the tiny Pro) and the Pixel 11 Pro Fold Amazon is offering an further £100 bonus erstwhile trading successful an aged telephone – the information is that it has to beryllium an aged Pixel. But adjacent if you nonstop successful different brand, you inactive get a large £300 bonus. You tin find much details connected this connection here.

The caller Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold is slimmer and lighter than its predecessor – it measures 10.1mm folded (5.0mm unfolded) and weighs 239g. That’s inactive thicker and heavier than competing book-style foldables, but it’s a decent betterment implicit the alternatively chunky 10 Pro Fold, which was 10.8mm folded (5.2mm unfolded) and weighed 258g.

This slimming down had a antagonistic interaction connected the battery, which present lone has 4,806mAh capacity. This puts it beneath the Z Fold8 Ultra (5,000mAh) and the Pixel 10 Pro Fold (5,015mAh). At slightest wireless charging was boosted to 25W, but wired is inactive lone 30W.

Google besides equipped the caller foldable with the vanilla phone’s 48MP 1/1.56” main camera, which replaces the 48MP 1/2.0” module from past year. That sensor mightiness person been good for the Pixel 10, but it was surely not suitable for the pricey Pixel 10 Pro Fold.

The caller Google Pixel Watch 5 is not truthful caller – it uses the aforesaid chassis, show and chipset (Snapdragon Wear W5 Gen 2) arsenic its predecessor. It present has treble the on-board storage, 64GB, portion keeping RAM astatine 2GB. The artillery is mostly the aforesaid too. The large upgrades this procreation are Gemini Intelligence and improved wellness tracking.

The Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 got a caller colour option, Olive, and new bundle features that see Dynamic ANC and an improved Live Translate mode. This is coming to each Pro 2 buds arsenic an update, truthful if you already person a pair, you aren’t missing retired connected much.

There volition beryllium a Pixel 11a, but not for a fewer months. For now, the inexpensive exemplary remains the Pixel 10a, which has a coagulated £150 discount (for the 256GB variant). This has a two-generation-old Tensor G4 spot with lone 8GB of RAM. The cameras diagnostic the tiny 48MP 1/2.0” sensor and deficiency a dedicated telephoto lens.

Google’s caller foldable goes up against 3 foldable Galaxys. Samsung introduced the wide Galaxy Z Fold8 this procreation – a signifier origin that Google was adjacent to with the archetypal Pixel Fold but that it has since abandoned.

Note that each 3 Galaxy Z8 foldables are £100 cheaper if you person an progressive Prime oregon Prime Student subscription. Additionally, Amazon volition sound £50 disconnected the terms of a Galaxy Watch9 oregon a Watch Ultra 2 if you bargain it alongside 1 of the foldables.

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra is the successor to the ample Z Fold7. It measures 8.9mm folded (4.1mm unfolded) and weighs 215g, making the Pixel 11 Pro Fold consciousness chunky. And this is with a larger 5,000mAh artillery that supports 45W wired and 20W wireless (non-magnetic) charging. While the wide Z Fold8 has a mid-range 50MP wide positive 50MP ultra-wide camera setup, the Ultra boasts a 200MP main (1/1.3”), 3x/67mm 10MP telephoto and a 50MP ultra-wide.

Google doesn’t person a flip, truthful the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip8 is near to vie with the Motorola Razrs. Note that the trade-in bonuses for the Z Fold8 Ultra and the Z Flip8 are smaller than they were past week.

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 bid has been retired for months now. If you prime a Galaxy S26 Ultra oregon an S26+, don’t hide to click connected the voucher arsenic that is worthy £150 oregon £100, respectively. The vanilla Galaxy S26 has a consecutive discount alternatively and earnestly undercuts adjacent the vanilla Pixel 11 (to accidental thing of the 11 Pro).

If you are successful the marketplace for a flagship camera, the speech is much analyzable than “Google vs. Samsung”. There are the likes of the Xiaomi 17 Ultra, which has a 1”-type main sensor (50MP), a 200MP adaptable periscope (3.2x-4.3x, 75-100mm) and a 50MP ultra-wide. The telephone besides boasts a ample 6.9” LTPO OLED and a 6,000mAh artillery with 90W wired and 50W wireless accelerated charging. This Ultra is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.

We’ll besides propulsion the Xiaomi 17T into the premix – it’s a batch little susceptible than the Ultra, but it besides costs fractional arsenic much. It has a mid-sized 6.59” OLED and is powered by the Dimensity 8500 Ultra. The European exemplary has a 6,500mAh artillery with 67W wired-only charging. In presumption of cameras, determination is simply a 50MP main (1/1.55”), a 50MP 5x/115mm periscope and a 12MP ultra-wide.

If you privation thing smaller, person a look astatine the Oppo Reno16 Pro. It has a 6.32” show and a amazingly ample 6,700mAh artillery with 80W wired-only charging. This telephone packs a 200MP (1/1.56”) main, a 50MP 3.5x/80mm telephoto and a 50MP ultra-wide. It’s powered by the akin Dimensity 8550 Super chipset.

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