iPhone Duo vs. Pixel 11 Pro Fold: 2 Durable Foldables Face Off
Apple’s and Google’s phones are both rated for dust and water resistance. Here’s how they compare when it comes to other features such as cameras, battery life and displays.
In the competitive world of foldable smartphones, Apple's iPhone Duo and Google's Pixel 11 Pro Fold have emerged as top contenders. Both devices boast an IP68 rating, ensuring they can withstand water immersion up to 6 meters for the iPhone Duo and 1.5 meters for the Pixel, for up to 30 minutes. This level of water resistance is a rarity in the foldable phone market.
Priced at around $2,000, these devices are not for the faint of wallet. The iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 for 256GB, while the Pixel 11 Pro Fold begins at $1,899 for the same storage level. Preorders for the iPhone Duo began on October 16, with a release date of October 23, while the Pixel 11 Pro Fold was available from the start.
The key distinction between the two lies in their design and intended use. The Pixel 11 Pro Fold adopts a traditional book-style design, with a cover screen resembling a standard slab phone. Its expansive screen is perfect for watching movies or multitasking. Conversely, the iPhone Duo's compact, passport-size design results in a squatter, more compact cover screen and a short, wide inner display, ideal for landscape videos and vertical content.
This design makes the Duo more adaptable to a wider range of content formats, much like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8.
The iPhone Duo features a squat 5.4-inch cover display and a wide 7.6-inch inner display, while the Pixel 11 Pro Fold boasts a taller 6.5-inch cover display and an even larger 8-inch main display. The Duo is more compact and expands into an iPad Mini, while the Pixel Fold feels like a non-folding phone when closed, opening up to a tablet-like display.
A notable feature of the iPhone Duo is its matte, nano-texture inner display that reduces reflections and minimizes the crease. The Pixel 11 Pro Fold, however, lacks an anti-reflective display, making the crease more visible.
Both phones are relatively thin, with the iPhone Duo measuring 5.2mm when open and 11.3mm when closed, weighing 254 grams. The Pixel 11 Pro Fold is slightly thinner when open at 5mm, but closed, it measures 10.1mm, and weighs 239 grams. This lighter weight is likely due to the Pixel 11 Pro Fold's aluminum frame compared to the titanium frame on the iPhone Duo.
In terms of cameras, the iPhone Duo has a 48-megapixel main camera and a 48-megapixel ultrawide camera, with a 12-megapixel selfie camera on the outer display and an under-display FaceTime camera on the inside. The Pixel 11 Pro Fold, on the other hand, features a 48-megapixel wide-angle, 10.5-megapixel ultrawide, and 10.8-megapixel telephoto camera on the back, along with a 10-megapixel selfie camera on both the cover and inside displays.
While the Pixel 11 Pro Fold may have a slight edge in camera specifications, both phones offer the ability to preview images using the cover screen.
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