iPhone 17's Competition: Google Launches New Pixel 10 Smartphones

[Spock]

folding phones make barely any sense.

folding tablets however...that I can see.

Yeah, I would like to fold my tablet in half and put it in my pocket with my phone, oh wait…

 

[shyam09]

I’ll probably get one. I got a Pixel 8 for free as a side phone (from a trade in), upgraded to 9, so I’ll upgrade to Pixel 10 since the promotion is available again (via T-Mobile).

My main phone is the iPhone though

 

[Ctrlos]

I suppose those PixelSnap accessories will all work with MagSafe iPhones as well….

 

[ProbablyDylan]

With the hideous UI change in iOS 26, I am no longer a fan of the direction the iPhone is going. The Pixel might be something I take a look at.

Make sure to get a good look at ME3 and make sure you can live with that! A huge reason I left Android is the direction that Google took it. Now with Apple making bad UX calls, where are we supposed to go?

 

[sza]

Where are we right now, Tim?

 

[Octavius8]

No competition here.
Apple is on the dust. No AI, no longer battery, no foldable…

 

[friedmud]

Gemini is the reason I’m interested in these phones. I just want an AI assistant that doesn’t completely suck.

However, I mentioned this to my wife and she said “You made a solemn vow when we got married that we will not be a green bubble family!”… so no Pixel for me 🤣

 

[turbineseaplane]

However, I mentioned this to my wife and she said “You made a solemn vow when we got married that we will not be a green bubble family!”… so no Pixel for me 🤣

I have to say, RCS has changed the equation on this so nicely for me when interacting with green bubble friends.

Speaking of which -- sure is weird that the Apple Messages icon is Green everywhere

 

[ToothBlueth]

It’s a pixel 9 pro with MagSafe, that’s it. At least Samsung fold is thinner and new design

So they are copying Apple with boring updates?! How dare they!

 

[BrownManUPS]

I _really_ want a foldable phone. It's like the one thing that will get me to upgrade.

 

[nortonandreev]

Seems like a very boring year for the Pixel.

 

[StoneJack]

It's sad to see that Apple is no longer the brand that pushes the mobile design forward.

it never was ever since Google stole iPhone's interface

 

[SmugMaverick]

Magic cue looked amazing and actual useful AI for the average Joe.

These Pro phones also have 3300 nits which blows the 2000 on the iPhone away.

Moonstone looks lovely, the qi2 accessories are nice as well.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Seems like a very boring year for the Pixel.

(Tim Cook) Hold my spiked seltzer!

 

[SmugMaverick]

it never was ever since Google stole iPhone's interface

We'd still have dogpoop cameras on our phones if it wasn't for the Pixel 1 and Pixel 2 forcing Apple and Samsung to improve.

The Pixel 2($550) camera BLEW the iPhone X($999) away in 2017.

 

[Mackan]

Apple's hardware designers have better eye for details. Mostly looking forward to a foldable from Apple if it is passport sized.

 

[Johnny907]

That camera wart on the 10/Pro is really ugly.

Well get ready, because that same wart is coming to the 17 in less than a month.

 

[Liquid Galaxy]

Looks ok but nah. I’m with the majority of people that just put apps on their phone, I don’t necessarily care about anything else, and from that point of view the majority of devs (big and small) always prioritise their iPhone apps over Android (if they even bothered to release an Android version). Whilst that’s the case, iPhone will always be the go to.

 

[Rogifan]

So apparently at the Google event they had an applause sign and they asked the press to clap whenever the sign lit up. Imagine the roasting Apple would get if it ever did that.

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[germanbeer007]

Isn't the idea of a folding phone (one that opens like a book) that it's basically a phone that can become a small tablet?

which doesn't make sense since small tablets are portable enough already. what makes sense is to be able to carry something like a small tablet to unfold into a giant workspace.

 

[germanbeer007]

The fact that it opens up, makes it a tablet.

I am wholly in the apple ecosystem (for a variety of reasons), but I also had a Fold Z, and I loved opening it up, and reading, and working on it.

phone -> small tablet
small tablet -> giant workspace

latter makes sense.

 

[germanbeer007]

Folding tablet you cannot carry it almost everywhere, is like a laptop

you can carry a 27 inch laptop in your backpack? nah.

 

[germanbeer007]

Yeah, I would like to fold my tablet in half and put it in my pocket with my phone, oh wait…

27 inch tablet in your pocket? did you invent new physics? hilarious.

 

[Harthag]

In what way? A folding phone that few will likely buy, with an ugly crease in the screen, just to say “look we are doing something”? Remember all the people claiming they wanted an iPhone mini, but then didn’t actually buy one?

Except that people are actually buying foldables and they're becoming more popular. The Mini went down each year and then was discontinued. When Apple launches its foldable next year everyone will suddenly be on the bandwagon and it'll be touted as the best iPhone ever.

 

[TruthWatcher412]

So they are copying Apple with boring updates?! How dare they!

Yup, they even added a Journal app...wonder where they got that idea from.