Whereas many people nonetheless look forward to the day when Apple will launch its mythic foldable iPhone, Google has now thrown its hat into the ring with the Pixel Fold, representing what could possibly be the primary mainstream competitor to Samsung’s well-liked Galaxy Z Fold 4.
It’s a captivating gadget, to make sure, even whether it is considerably unproven. The unfolded internal show measures 7.6 inches diagonally, with a decision of two,208 x 1,840 decision at 380 pixels per inch. On the duvet is a 5.8-inch OLED show that reaches a peak brightness of 1,550 nits.
It additionally packs in some spectacular cameras, with a 48MP most important shooter, a ten.8MP ultrawide, and a ten.8MP telephoto lens with 5X optical zoom, plus the computational images energy of Google’s Tensor G2 chip. It’s the thinnest foldable cellphone but, and, not like Samsung, Google is focusing extra on the cellphone facet quite than attempting to make a pill out of it.
Not surprisingly, the Pixel Fold doesn’t come low cost. Like Samsung’s foldable, the Pixel Fold arrives with a $1,799 price ticket for its base mannequin with 256GB of storage. So, additionally like its chief competitor, Google is providing some good trade-in offers to assist take the sting out of paying practically the identical worth for a smartphone that you’d for a MacBook Professional.
In fact, the Pixel Fold can also be nonetheless an Android smartphone, however Google is making a daring transfer within the hope that its new foldable will entice iPhone customers who could also be rising bored with ready for Apple to come back round.
Nevertheless, as cheap as a lot of the trade-in values are, the quantities that Google is providing to pay iPhone customers to modify over to the opposite facet is sort of ludicrous.
As 9to5Google experiences, Google pays $950 for an iPhone 14 Professional Max or $900 for an iPhone 14 Professional. For the 6.1-inch mannequin, that’s solely $100 lower than what it prices to purchase one model new.
An iPhone 13 Professional Max will fetch the identical $900 in direction of a Pixel Fold, whereas the smaller iPhone 13 Professional drops that barely to $850. That’s nonetheless solely $150 lower than that mannequin offered for when new — and $320 greater than Apple provides you with to commerce in the identical iPhone for a more recent mannequin.
It will get even crazier with the 2020 iPhone 12 Professional Max, the place Google is providing an $800 trade-in worth that’s practically twice as a lot what Apple pays.
Nevertheless, solely Apple’s Professional fashions appear to be attracting these profitable costs, maybe as a result of Google feels these are the parents who’re the target market for the Pixel Fold. The iPhone 14 will solely fetch a comparable meagre $350, and each the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini have trade-in values which are significantly decrease than what Apple is providing.
As you may see from the chart under, the iPhone 12 Professional can also be an outlier right here among the many iPhone Professional fashions, with a low and actually oddball trade-in worth of $214.80. The 2022 iPhone SE and all of Apple’s pre-2020 fashions all have equally low trade-in values, with some being half of Apple’s.
| Mannequin | Google Pixel Fold Commerce-In | Apple Commerce-In |
| iPhone 14 Professional Max | $950 | N/A |
| iPhone 14 Professional | $900 | N/A |
| iPhone 14 | $350 | N/A |
| iPhone 13 Professional Max | $900 | As much as $630 |
| iPhone 13 Professional | $850 | As much as $530 |
| iPhone 13 | $230 | As much as $400 |
| iPhone 13 mini | $180 | As much as $330 |
| iPhone 12 Professional Max | $800 | As much as $440 |
| iPhone 12 Professional | $214.80 | As much as $350 |
| iPhone SE (2022) | $80.80 | As much as $160 |
Google additionally isn’t distinguishing by storage capacities. As an illustration, a 1TB iPhone 14 Professional Max, which retails for $1,599 fetches the identical $950 as the bottom 128GB mannequin, and that’s the identical throughout the board.
It’s additionally vital to keep in mind that all the figures above are estimated trade-in values, and will be topic to vary after Google’s or Apple’s trade-in companions assess the situation of your cellphone.
Nonetheless, it’s apparent that Google is making a critical play for iPhone Professional customers right here, as these are some severely inflated trade-in values, and are much more beneficiant than Google is providing for every other smartphone manufacturers. Even a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4, which sells for a similar worth because the Pixel Fold, solely nets $900 on trade-in — the identical worth that Google is paying for iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 13 Professional Max.
Google isn’t even sweetening the pot for its personal trustworthy Pixel followers. An proprietor of the newest Pixel 7 Professional, which retails for $899, will solely get $380 in trade-in worth in the event that they determine to improve to a Pixel Fold, and naturally the costs solely go down from there.
It’s additionally clear that is totally about luring iPhone Professional customers into the Fold. Go for a Pixel 7 Professional as an alternative, and your iPhone 14 Professional Max trade-in worth will drop to a mere $500, and an iPhone 13 Professional Max to solely $353. In the meantime, the iPhone 14 and iPhone 13 values stay the identical. In different phrases, Google is keen to pay twice as a lot particularly to take your iPhone Professional out of your palms and exchange it with a Pixel Fold.