Google Pixel 11 Series, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag: Specs, Features, Price, Release Date
Google is dialing things up to 11 this year with its Pixel phones. Ahead of its annual Made by Google event in New York City
Google is dialing things up to 11 this year with its Pixel phones. Ahead of its annual Made by Google event in New York City, the company unwrapped the Pixel 11 smartphone family—which includes the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold—alongside the Pixel Watch 5 smartwatch. There's also a new hardware addition: the Pixel Tag, which seems designed to be the AirTag of the Android world. Here's everything you need to know about the hardware changes and software upgrades on Google’s latest devices.
Preorders open today, and the phones and watches go on sale August 20. The Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro Fold The Pixel 11 starts with 256 GB of storage and comes in an eye-popping Hibiscus color. Photograph: Julian Chokkattu It was inevitable, but prices are up across the board for Google's Pixel 11 series. The Pixel 11 now starts at $899, and on the highest end of the spectrum, the Pixel 11 Pro Fold is now $1,900. This means both devices got $100 price bumps.
There's some good news: Google has bumped the base storage up to 256 GB on every device, a move matching Samsung's and Apple's latest handsets. The Pixel 11 series is powered by Google's Tensor G6 chipset, which the company says is 20 percent more power efficient, 25 percent faster for browsing, and 15 percent faster when loading apps. Many of the camera improvements in the new devices are thanks to an improved imaging signal processor on the chip and a 50 percent more powerful tensor processing unit.
One big design change across the entire Pixel 11 series is on the oval camera bar on the back—it's now an all-glass surface, as opposed to a mix of metal and glass on its predecessors. Google says the camera bar on the Pixel 11 is more than 40 percent thinner, and when you pop on Google's case, the camera bar disappears and is completely flush. The Pixel 11 has the most striking color of the lot—Hibiscus—joined by more muted Pistachio, Frost, and Obsidian.
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