**The Average Consumer's Review: A Hands-On Experience with the Google Pixel Fold**

As an average consumer, I recently had the opportunity to get my hands on the Google Pixel Fold, a device that promises to deliver a premium experience at a reasonable price point. In this review, I'll share my honest thoughts on the phone's performance, camera capabilities, battery life, and overall value.

**Camera Capabilities: Not Up to Par**

One of the main areas where the Pixel Fold falls short is in its camera capabilities. While it does offer some nice features like portrait mode, which looks great, I was disappointed with the overall quality of the images. The phone's camera struggles to keep up with flagship devices in terms of image resolution and dynamic range. Additionally, the up-contrast feature can sometimes result in a darker look, which is noticeable but not necessarily a bad thing.

**Volume: Not Impressive**

Another area where the Pixel Fold disappoints is in its volume levels. Even at maximum settings, the speaker volume is relatively low, making it difficult to hear phone calls or notifications in noisy environments. This is especially disappointing when you consider that this device costs close to $2,000, a price point that usually comes with better speaker quality.

**Battery Life: Average Experience**

When it comes to battery life, my experience with the Pixel Fold was relatively average. On days where I didn't use the phone extensively, I found it lasted till around 8 PM without needing a charge. However, on days when I used the phone more, I noticed that the battery life started to dwindle earlier, usually around 5 PM. This is partly due to the larger display, which can be power-hungry.

**Software Experience: Solid but with Room for Improvement**

One area where the Pixel Fold shines is in its software experience, courtesy of Google's Tensor chip. I was pleasantly surprised by the phone's performance, especially when it comes to gaming. The smooth gameplay and minimal stuttering made it a joy to play on. However, I did notice some issues with third-party apps, particularly those that aren't optimized for the larger display.

**App Support: A Disappointment**

Speaking of app support, I was underwhelmed by the Pixel Fold's ability to take full advantage of its larger screen. While some Google applications do benefit from the bigger display, many third-party apps still fail to optimize their user interfaces, resulting in a cluttered and unappealing experience.

**Overall Value: A Solid Device but Not without Drawbacks**

After spending time with the Pixel Fold, I would say that it's a solid device at $1,800. While it doesn't offer the full experience that the average consumer might expect at this price point, it does bring a lot of value to the table. However, if you're looking for a flagship-grade camera or better app support on the larger display, you might want to consider other options.

**The Verdict**

In conclusion, my time with the Pixel Fold was an enlightening experience that highlighted both its strengths and weaknesses. While it's a solid device in many areas, it falls short in some key aspects like camera capabilities, speaker quality, and app support on the larger display. Despite this, I would recommend the Pixel Fold to enthusiasts who value Google's software expertise and are willing to overlook some of its limitations.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's going on guys Robert consumer and today we're gonna be spending a real Day in the Life with the pixel gold uh the irony of today is that we are actually at this Galaxy fold pop-up I just got these new full devices but we're not here to talk about that we're here to talk about the pixel Bowl so we're gonna be spending a full day with this phone learning all the ins and outs about it seeing how it performs but so far we're at 90 since I've been using it this morning we'll see how that battery lasts throughout the rest of the day thank you all right guys so we are incredibly late uh I was supposed to get here at nine it's 1108 right now so I've actually got to run to another meeting I'm actually gonna break up with dom here for a bit head to that meeting and then we'll talk a little bit more about what I think about this phone one thing I will say though you guys know I typically hate walking around without a case especially out in public with this concrete everywhere I feel oddly comfortable with this like I don't feel like it's going to slip out my hand even though scared of this didn't kind of falling always now before we got to the city we had a pretty early start to the day most of it being spent in an Uber three hours to be exact and I think that was because of a freak crane falling accident in the city absolutely wild stuff but that meant I spent a lot of time on the phone doing all kinds of stuff from answering emails so of course watching some content I feel like this is the kind of scenario where having a big screen is really beneficial I was able to watch it on the 7.6 inch display which just UPS The Experience now because this is Google's first folding phone they made some upgrades to certain applications like Gmail where it kind of does a split view where you can see your mail on one side content on the other so it's nice to see upgraded Google applications taking advantage of the larger display now so while it might have been a much longer Uber ride than I expected having that larger display definitely helped to alleviate some time in a more exciting way I will say though I did struggle with the speakers when trying to hear my content in the Uber but what talk about that a little bit later now I think it's pretty well documented across the internet that a lot of people are enjoying the form factor of this phone The Wider but shorter body definitely feels really good in the hand it's a lot more screen than those narrow phones that we've been getting in the past so I think a lot more people are just comfortable using this thing similarly to the way they've been using their normal smartphones now another thing I've really got to give Google credit for is the build quality of this phone so we've got stainless steel around the edges it feels really good in the hand it feels like a premium device now the only knock on this is that if you're not careful you don't have like a case on it you will start to see scratches over time sadly mine started getting some scratches so I'm a little hurt by it but it does feel really good in the hand and it does help it to feel very premium but amongst that stainless steel frame we do have a power button with a fingerprint scanner I feel like the fingerprint scanner works really quickly you can just tap it and and unlock the phone or you just rest your finger on it and it'll unlock it as well both very responsive for me personally I don't really care for fingerprint scanners in the display I know a lot of people like that but I prefer it on the power button I feel like that makes more sense and I'm glad Google went with it here now when you open up the phone you get access to that 7.6 inch display although I will say the crease I've had a harder time getting over it in this phone for some for whatever reason and I think that might be because when you open up the phone it doesn't do the full 180 on your first open so I always feel like I have to like push it down a little bit more and a lot of people have already mentioned this and I don't know if it's something that would have bothered me if I didn't hear about it already but it is pretty annoying to have to feel like the phone isn't completely open when you're trying to use it in that bigger tablet mode for me personally I found myself trying to open it up a little bit more than I have any other foldable smartphone so that is something to think about I do feel like it might play a role in making the crease a little bit more prominent but when you're in like a dark area you can't really tell but anywhere with some light it's definitely visible in my opinion overall it's a very comfortable phone to use whether it's closed and when open like I said I do find myself trying to pry it open a little bit more but for the most part I still prefer this design over anything I've used in the foldable market so far okay guys so we are back in the studio finally it was a long long first part of the day actually so long that it's afternoon now it's 3 P.M which is absolutely wild um and we still got a lot of stuff to do in here we've got to unbox this thing that just came in it said it has dry ice freeze upon arrival so we gotta pop this thing open we got to get right to it so let's go ahead and do that now all right so I'm gonna go ahead and grab a story really quick all right y'all so a black box just showed up to the studio so you know what we got to do we gotta open it up see what's inside listen I'm not I know we already talked about like the form factor but it's such a short device I'm not mad at it like I love the way this feels like I'm sorry and like I feel like all foldables should have this form factor and Microsoft was the first to kind of get it right with the Microsoft Duo uh but on this guy it feels great screen on the outside wider it just feels like a more normal phone to use than like some of the really Slim foldables out there that we just picked up today it's okay it's okay we love them all while we're unboxing this so we're gonna add this to the massive Tech unboxing because we're not quite ready to shoot that video just yet so we're gonna unbox this thing and then add it later I'm gonna record some footage here of the unboxing you can pretty much just use this as a tripod because it's a foldable phone now all foldables kind of have this feature since it's they're all foldable but I gotta say it is nice to be able to do it I'll record let's do it all right guys so we just unboxed all this Twisted Metal stuff it's actually really cool we got a fridge travel pouch some ice cream a bomber jacket and some other stuff too some survival gear so I am all about this that's a win for today let's actually take a picture of the refrigerator let's go wide here and bam this is not bad at all just from a quality perspective uh the framing and all that this is a terrible picture Okay anyway let's get another picture so I can post this take a little bit more time to frame up all right not bad this will definitely do the trick for social media I do want to talk a little bit more about the cameras now when it comes to the camera quality I gotta say this does have a lot of the characteristics of a standard pixel phone you get those nice contrasty shots if you're into that the quality overall is nice but it doesn't match up with like the pixel 7 Pro and I feel like that might be a little bit disappointing to some who are shelling out the eighteen hundred dollars that this thing costs me personally I've always been a little bit disappointed that all of the foldable phones don't have cameras that match up with the flagship devices so it's kind of like what we see with these Samsung phones but it is still rather disappointing to me because this is supposed to be a phone that kind of has it all it has the outside screen the bigger screen on the inside has the premium price uh and you kind of want cameras that match that it's not what we're seeing here uh but overall I think the average person using this phone isn't really going to complain too much much about the overall quality you can still pull off some really nice shots portrait mode looks great they do have that darker look to it because of the up contrast but I think for the most part you do get shots that look like pixel shots but it's just not of the highest quality and considering the price some people might not be happy with that I don't know man volume's still pretty low so like around the 70 all right let's check out one of our videos so we just dropped the video actually what's going on guys it's average consumer and it's time for a good old-fashioned Showdown I mean look at this volume bar it's not very loud even all the way over here but man this is not these are not impressive speakers by any means when you spend like close to two thousand dollars on a phone you want the speakers to sound good but these speakers leave a lot to be desired very disappointing to be honest what's your battery yet oh good question so it is 511 you know getting pretty close to the end of the day so we've got 51 left should be able to get me through the rest of the day no problem probably because I've been just in meetings all day I wasn't really on the phone that much I was really taxing it so on a day like today battery's not so bad now when it comes to battery life overall I feel like this was a pretty average experience on days where I didn't use it much I lasted till like eight o'clock as you saw in the real day in the life but on days where it got a lot more use I was charging it a little bit earlier maybe around like the five o'clock range so it all depends on how you use it especially if you use the larger display a lot more I'm not somebody who jumps into the larger display often unless like you saw in the real Day in the Life I'm like sitting down for a long period of time maybe eating some food maybe on an Uber watching content or maybe even playing a game so a lot of my battery use doesn't come from the larger display but I do feel like if you're someone who does you might see less than Stellar battery life for me this one feels pretty average now surprisingly from a performance perspective this phone has been pretty solid better than any of the pixels I've used so far with the tensor chips inside of them you guys know me I'm a big gamer and usually that's my Benchmark for how well a phone performs I typically see some stutters in my gameplay when I'm playing on any of the previous pixels with tensor chips but on this guy it's been a really smooth experience knock on wood and now of course we know Google's strongest point is going to be with the software experience so you got a lot of cool features from Google That You Don't See on other phones like the call screening feature which I still personally think is an absolutely amazing feature but we're not seeing a ton of software perks when it comes to the foldable experience you do have the ability to of course use split screen where you can have two apps side by side we do have some really cool dock features as well but I would have liked to see a better experience when it comes to using applications with the bigger screen right now you can just have them right in the center and you have like those two big black borders on the side and you can't move the apps closer to the size if you want to do that but you still got all that empty wasted space but I am happy though that a lot of the Google applications do take advantage of the larger display but we just got to see that come to third-party apps and I don't know when that issue is going to be fixed on Android overall and that's no fault of Google per se uh it's an Android issue honestly Android tablets don't have a lot of optimized apps I feel like it's weird to use Instagram on the larger screen I'll probably always opt for the front screen because of this now overall when it comes to recommending this phone I will say the main drawbacks that I see are the camera not being up to Snuff with like Flagship devices as well as the app situation on the larger display but aside from that I feel like this is a really solid phone at eighteen hundred dollars would I recommend it overall I don't think it provides the full experience that the average person might want at this price but if you are a pixel Enthusiast Google brings a lot to the table with this one I just want to see better app support for that bigger screen and maybe hopefully next year we see better cameras although I'm not counting on that but that about wraps it up for this video guys hopefully that helps until next one guys is your average consumer peacewhat's going on guys Robert consumer and today we're gonna be spending a real Day in the Life with the pixel gold uh the irony of today is that we are actually at this Galaxy fold pop-up I just got these new full devices but we're not here to talk about that we're here to talk about the pixel Bowl so we're gonna be spending a full day with this phone learning all the ins and outs about it seeing how it performs but so far we're at 90 since I've been using it this morning we'll see how that battery lasts throughout the rest of the day thank you all right guys so we are incredibly late uh I was supposed to get here at nine it's 1108 right now so I've actually got to run to another meeting I'm actually gonna break up with dom here for a bit head to that meeting and then we'll talk a little bit more about what I think about this phone one thing I will say though you guys know I typically hate walking around without a case especially out in public with this concrete everywhere I feel oddly comfortable with this like I don't feel like it's going to slip out my hand even though scared of this didn't kind of falling always now before we got to the city we had a pretty early start to the day most of it being spent in an Uber three hours to be exact and I think that was because of a freak crane falling accident in the city absolutely wild stuff but that meant I spent a lot of time on the phone doing all kinds of stuff from answering emails so of course watching some content I feel like this is the kind of scenario where having a big screen is really beneficial I was able to watch it on the 7.6 inch display which just UPS The Experience now because this is Google's first folding phone they made some upgrades to certain applications like Gmail where it kind of does a split view where you can see your mail on one side content on the other so it's nice to see upgraded Google applications taking advantage of the larger display now so while it might have been a much longer Uber ride than I expected having that larger display definitely helped to alleviate some time in a more exciting way I will say though I did struggle with the speakers when trying to hear my content in the Uber but what talk about that a little bit later now I think it's pretty well documented across the internet that a lot of people are enjoying the form factor of this phone The Wider but shorter body definitely feels really good in the hand it's a lot more screen than those narrow phones that we've been getting in the past so I think a lot more people are just comfortable using this thing similarly to the way they've been using their normal smartphones now another thing I've really got to give Google credit for is the build quality of this phone so we've got stainless steel around the edges it feels really good in the hand it feels like a premium device now the only knock on this is that if you're not careful you don't have like a case on it you will start to see scratches over time sadly mine started getting some scratches so I'm a little hurt by it but it does feel really good in the hand and it does help it to feel very premium but amongst that stainless steel frame we do have a power button with a fingerprint scanner I feel like the fingerprint scanner works really quickly you can just tap it and and unlock the phone or you just rest your finger on it and it'll unlock it as well both very responsive for me personally I don't really care for fingerprint scanners in the display I know a lot of people like that but I prefer it on the power button I feel like that makes more sense and I'm glad Google went with it here now when you open up the phone you get access to that 7.6 inch display although I will say the crease I've had a harder time getting over it in this phone for some for whatever reason and I think that might be because when you open up the phone it doesn't do the full 180 on your first open so I always feel like I have to like push it down a little bit more and a lot of people have already mentioned this and I don't know if it's something that would have bothered me if I didn't hear about it already but it is pretty annoying to have to feel like the phone isn't completely open when you're trying to use it in that bigger tablet mode for me personally I found myself trying to open it up a little bit more than I have any other foldable smartphone so that is something to think about I do feel like it might play a role in making the crease a little bit more prominent but when you're in like a dark area you can't really tell but anywhere with some light it's definitely visible in my opinion overall it's a very comfortable phone to use whether it's closed and when open like I said I do find myself trying to pry it open a little bit more but for the most part I still prefer this design over anything I've used in the foldable market so far okay guys so we are back in the studio finally it was a long long first part of the day actually so long that it's afternoon now it's 3 P.M which is absolutely wild um and we still got a lot of stuff to do in here we've got to unbox this thing that just came in it said it has dry ice freeze upon arrival so we gotta pop this thing open we got to get right to it so let's go ahead and do that now all right so I'm gonna go ahead and grab a story really quick all right y'all so a black box just showed up to the studio so you know what we got to do we gotta open it up see what's inside listen I'm not I know we already talked about like the form factor but it's such a short device I'm not mad at it like I love the way this feels like I'm sorry and like I feel like all foldables should have this form factor and Microsoft was the first to kind of get it right with the Microsoft Duo uh but on this guy it feels great screen on the outside wider it just feels like a more normal phone to use than like some of the really Slim foldables out there that we just picked up today it's okay it's okay we love them all while we're unboxing this so we're gonna add this to the massive Tech unboxing because we're not quite ready to shoot that video just yet so we're gonna unbox this thing and then add it later I'm gonna record some footage here of the unboxing you can pretty much just use this as a tripod because it's a foldable phone now all foldables kind of have this feature since it's they're all foldable but I gotta say it is nice to be able to do it I'll record let's do it all right guys so we just unboxed all this Twisted Metal stuff it's actually really cool we got a fridge travel pouch some ice cream a bomber jacket and some other stuff too some survival gear so I am all about this that's a win for today let's actually take a picture of the refrigerator let's go wide here and bam this is not bad at all just from a quality perspective uh the framing and all that this is a terrible picture Okay anyway let's get another picture so I can post this take a little bit more time to frame up all right not bad this will definitely do the trick for social media I do want to talk a little bit more about the cameras now when it comes to the camera quality I gotta say this does have a lot of the characteristics of a standard pixel phone you get those nice contrasty shots if you're into that the quality overall is nice but it doesn't match up with like the pixel 7 Pro and I feel like that might be a little bit disappointing to some who are shelling out the eighteen hundred dollars that this thing costs me personally I've always been a little bit disappointed that all of the foldable phones don't have cameras that match up with the flagship devices so it's kind of like what we see with these Samsung phones but it is still rather disappointing to me because this is supposed to be a phone that kind of has it all it has the outside screen the bigger screen on the inside has the premium price uh and you kind of want cameras that match that it's not what we're seeing here uh but overall I think the average person using this phone isn't really going to complain too much much about the overall quality you can still pull off some really nice shots portrait mode looks great they do have that darker look to it because of the up contrast but I think for the most part you do get shots that look like pixel shots but it's just not of the highest quality and considering the price some people might not be happy with that I don't know man volume's still pretty low so like around the 70 all right let's check out one of our videos so we just dropped the video actually what's going on guys it's average consumer and it's time for a good old-fashioned Showdown I mean look at this volume bar it's not very loud even all the way over here but man this is not these are not impressive speakers by any means when you spend like close to two thousand dollars on a phone you want the speakers to sound good but these speakers leave a lot to be desired very disappointing to be honest what's your battery yet oh good question so it is 511 you know getting pretty close to the end of the day so we've got 51 left should be able to get me through the rest of the day no problem probably because I've been just in meetings all day I wasn't really on the phone that much I was really taxing it so on a day like today battery's not so bad now when it comes to battery life overall I feel like this was a pretty average experience on days where I didn't use it much I lasted till like eight o'clock as you saw in the real day in the life but on days where it got a lot more use I was charging it a little bit earlier maybe around like the five o'clock range so it all depends on how you use it especially if you use the larger display a lot more I'm not somebody who jumps into the larger display often unless like you saw in the real Day in the Life I'm like sitting down for a long period of time maybe eating some food maybe on an Uber watching content or maybe even playing a game so a lot of my battery use doesn't come from the larger display but I do feel like if you're someone who does you might see less than Stellar battery life for me this one feels pretty average now surprisingly from a performance perspective this phone has been pretty solid better than any of the pixels I've used so far with the tensor chips inside of them you guys know me I'm a big gamer and usually that's my Benchmark for how well a phone performs I typically see some stutters in my gameplay when I'm playing on any of the previous pixels with tensor chips but on this guy it's been a really smooth experience knock on wood and now of course we know Google's strongest point is going to be with the software experience so you got a lot of cool features from Google That You Don't See on other phones like the call screening feature which I still personally think is an absolutely amazing feature but we're not seeing a ton of software perks when it comes to the foldable experience you do have the ability to of course use split screen where you can have two apps side by side we do have some really cool dock features as well but I would have liked to see a better experience when it comes to using applications with the bigger screen right now you can just have them right in the center and you have like those two big black borders on the side and you can't move the apps closer to the size if you want to do that but you still got all that empty wasted space but I am happy though that a lot of the Google applications do take advantage of the larger display but we just got to see that come to third-party apps and I don't know when that issue is going to be fixed on Android overall and that's no fault of Google per se uh it's an Android issue honestly Android tablets don't have a lot of optimized apps I feel like it's weird to use Instagram on the larger screen I'll probably always opt for the front screen because of this now overall when it comes to recommending this phone I will say the main drawbacks that I see are the camera not being up to Snuff with like Flagship devices as well as the app situation on the larger display but aside from that I feel like this is a really solid phone at eighteen hundred dollars would I recommend it overall I don't think it provides the full experience that the average person might want at this price but if you are a pixel Enthusiast Google brings a lot to the table with this one I just want to see better app support for that bigger screen and maybe hopefully next year we see better cameras although I'm not counting on that but that about wraps it up for this video guys hopefully that helps until next one guys is your average consumer peace\n"