How the most recent foldable telephones ...

Final month, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 was launched and instantly grew to become the de facto king of the foldable telephone hill. However now a brand new challenger has arrived: The Pixel 10 Pro Fold. The complete particulars at the moment are obtainable within the wake of Google’s splashy launch event, which debuted the Fold alongside the complete new Pixel 10 line, a brand new Pixel smartwatch and two new earbuds, too (see everything Google announced). However the Pixel 10 Professional Fold was the star of the present, and it is vying with the Z Fold 7 for the title of greatest foldable — each provide very related designs, however every bringing one thing distinctive to the desk.

Samsung launched its first foldable telephone in 2019, so it is had fairly a little bit of time to refine the Galaxy Fold through the years. Google then again simply launched its first Pixel Fold a pair years in the past — however has already largely evened the match. And, after all, with enhanced Gemini AI software program integration entrance and heart, you may have entry to Google’s spectacular synthetic intelligence options at practically each flip.

We’ll break down how the Pixel 10 Professional Fold and Galaxy Z Fold 7 stack as much as each other. You can even try our comparison of the Pixel 9 Pro Fold and the Galaxy Fold 6 to see how a lot has modified in a 12 months.

Value

First issues first, how a lot will one in every of these high-tech folding telephones value you? That’s the make-or-break query, in spite of everything. The latest Pixel foldable remains to be inexpensive than this 12 months’s Z Fold: it begins at $1,799 whereas the Galaxy smartphone begins at $2,000.

You haven’t any different actual decisions for “book-style” foldables within the US market. The OnePlus Open could be had for $1,499, nevertheless it’s nearly two years previous. And Apple’s most costly telephone is at the moment the $1,599 1TB iPhone 16 Professional Max — however as a non-foldable mannequin with only a single display screen, it is hardly a straight comparability. If the rumor mill is to be believed, Apple might lastly bow a foldable iPhone in 2026.

Dimensions and show

It is a race for the most important show and Samsung received this time — however not by a lot. The Galaxy Z Fold is only a hair larger than the Pixel Professional Fold. Each telephones’ interior shows are 8 inches throughout when absolutely opened, whereas Samsung comes out forward on the outer show with 6.5 inches (the Pixel is 6.4 inches).

As for top, the brand new foldable Pixel telephone is 6.1 inches and the Galaxy Z is 6.2 inches — not an enormous distinction there. When unfolded, the Samsung wins on dimension effectivity, packing the identically sized 8-inch inner show into an space that is 0.3 inches smaller — 5.6 inches versus the Pixel’s 5.9.

This 12 months, the Pixel 10 Professional Fold’s shows have been upgraded to a Tremendous Actua Flex OLED show with ultra-thin glass. Each the entrance display screen and again cowl come outfitted with Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2.

As for the Galaxy Z Fold 7, it has a Dynamic AMOLED show (interior and outer) and comes with the Corning Gorilla Glass Ceramic 2 on the entrance and the Gorilla Glass Victus 2 on the bottom. The glass is ultra-thin, but it is 50 % thicker than earlier than.

Whereas barely larger, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 remains to be lighter than the Pixel 10 Professional Fold. The Samsung mannequin weighs solely 7.6 ounces — down practically an oz. from its 2024 mannequin — whereas its Google competitors is available in at 9.1 ounces (the identical as final 12 months’s mannequin).

Processor, RAM, storage and battery

The Pixel 10 Fold Professional runs the Tensor G5 chip — Google says its CPU options 34 % higher efficiency in comparison with the Tensor G4 chip.

The Z Fold 7 is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy. “All the things feels quick and snappy,” Engadget’s Sam Rutherford mentioned of the Snapdragon 8 Elite efficiency on the Z Fold 7. (Sam additionally has first impressions of the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, however velocity checks will occur a bit later.)

Each telephones provide the selection of 256GB, 512GB or 1TB storage. On the RAM entrance, the Pixel Fold delivers 16GB throughout the road, whereas the Samsung mannequin reserves that degree for the highest 1TB storage tier; the small fashions get 12GB as an alternative. The Galaxy telephone will value you $2,419 in the event you determine you want the utmost quantity of storage, whereas the Pixel Fold tops out at $2,149.

On the subject of battery life, Samsung’s foldable lasts as much as 24 hours with a 4,400mAh battery. The Pixel lasts as much as 30 hours due to a extra capacious 5,015mAh battery score. Moreover, the Pixel Fold is licensed for Qi2 wi-fi charging, which Google is branding as “Pixelsnap” throughout its 2025 Pixel line for the primary time.

Cameras

For a lot of buyers, a telephone is barely nearly as good as its cameras, and each of those telephones carry a powerful lens recreation. Every has three rear cameras, although they’re completely different aesthetically. You will discover the Pixel has a bigger digital camera bump with two rows, whereas the Galaxy has a thinner vertical line of cameras.

The Pixel 10 Professional Fold’s rear digital camera array consists of a 48MP vast sensor, a ten.5MP ultrawide and a ten.8MP telephoto with 5x optical zoom. All three provide “Tremendous Res Zoom” as much as 20x with optical and digital picture stabilization. Per our personal Sam Rutherford, the potential downside right here is that Google performed it protected: “The largest potential shortcoming of the P10PF is that its digital camera {hardware} is basically staying the identical. Granted, that is not an enormous deal as a result of the earlier mannequin had the very best photograph high quality of any foldable telephone.”

By comparability, the Samsung Galaxy Fold 7 rear digital camera trio contains the identical 200MP wide-angle digital camera as the corporate’s Galaxy S25 Extremely, however carries over the 12MP ultrawide and 10MP phone from the Z Fold 6. Zoom ranges are 3x optical and 30x digital.

Whereas now we have but to place the Pixel 10 Professional Fold cameras by their paces, Sam was nonetheless liking final 12 months’s Pixel Fold versus the Galaxy Z Fold 7 when he reviewed the latter: “At evening, the Fold 7’s pictures remained surprisingly sharp. I nonetheless favor the Pixel 9 Professional Fold resulting from its extra correct white steadiness and sometimes sharper focus, although Samsung’s telephone is not far behind.” And your entire Pixel line’s cameras are (after all) supercharged with some new Google Gemini AI niceties, just like the Camera Coach feature that permits voice-controlled photograph enhancing.

Each the Pixel and Galaxy provide related 10MP specs on their entrance and interior selfie cameras.

Coloration choices

If you happen to like having a number of colours to select from, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 is profitable on this class. It is available in Mint, Jetblack, Blue Shadow and Silver Shadow. Mint is barely obtainable in the event you purchase your telephone on-line — you will not be seeing that one in shops.

As for the Pixel 10 Fold Professional, your choices are Moonstone and Jade.

Full specs comparability

Up to date August 21, 2:26PM ET: Added a bit evaluating the cameras on each telephones.