{"id":37325,"date":"2025-07-31T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/37325\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:10:09","slug":"pixel-10-pro-fold-price-leak-reveals-the-brutal-truth-of-book-style-foldable-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/37325\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel 10 Pro Fold Price Leak Reveals the Brutal Truth of Book-Style Foldable Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Google announces its new family of Pixel 10 phones next month on August 20<\/a>, there will likely be one bit of news that will surprise\u2014or perhaps not surprise\u2014everyone. And that\u2019s the fact that its third-gen book-style foldable, currently dubbed the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, will almost certainly still start at a whopping $1,800.<\/p>\n

Android Headlines is exclusively reporting<\/a> that the Pixel 10 Pro Fold will come in three storage capacities, including a new 1TB version. A 256GB model will reportedly cost $1,800; 512GB for $,1919; and 1TB for $2,149. At a time when the cost of everything from eggs to toilet paper has shot through the stratosphere, that\u2019s a lot of bones for a phone that folds in half and opens up to provide an expansive tablet-like experience.<\/p>\n

More than anything, the leaked pricing reveals the bleak reality of book-style foldables: they\u2019re not getting cheaper. In the six years since Samsung launched the very first Galaxy Fold<\/a>, the price for this kind of form factor has only shot up. Samsung\u2019s latest Z Fold 7\u2014the best book-style foldable in my opinion<\/a>\u2014starts at $2,000 compared to the $1,980 the OG Fold retailed for back in 2019.<\/p>\n

Rumors heavily suggest that Apple will\u00a0finally release its first-ever book-style foldable iPhone<\/a> next year. It may fall short of being as thin and light<\/a> as the Z Fold 7, but it\u2019ll run iOS (or will it be iPadOS<\/a>, or perhaps a hybrid of both?) so there will be hordes of fanatics who will line up. The biggest hurdle to a foldable iPhone\u2019s success, however, might be the price. JPMorgan analyst Samik Chatterjee predicts the foldable iPhone could start at $2,000, according to CNBC<\/a>. Consumers already hate paying $1,000 for an iPhone 16 Pro<\/a>, and almost nobody pays $1,600 (before tax) for a 1TB iPhone 16 Pro Max, so $2,000 for a foldable iPhone is going to be a hard pill to swallow even if you split that price up over monthly installments.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if Apple sold it for even more. A foldable iPhone would basically be two iPhone Pros bolted together\u2014you get a regular bar-style cover screen and then an iPad mini-sized inner foldable display. And then, there\u2019s the fact that book-style foldables have more cameras than regular phones\u2014usually a hole-punch camera for the cover screen and the foldable display, and then a separate dual- or triple-lens camera system on the backside. Not to mention, book-style foldables often require larger capacity batteries to power the larger folding screen. You pay more for more gadget.<\/p>\n

When you break it all down, it\u2019s no wonder prices for book-style foldable phones have not come down in just over half a decade. If anything, they could get more expensive. The OnePlus Open<\/a>\u00a0was a hell of a deal for a book-style foldable when it retailed for $1,700, and an even better value at $1,500\u00a0if you took advantage of its \u201ctrade-in any phone\u201d promo. OnePlus currently sells the Open discounted to $1,500, and you can slash up to $100 off with an eligible trade-in, but outside of this kinda promo, you won\u2019t find a flagship-level book-style foldable that\u2019s available worldwide (and especially compatible in the U.S.) for under $1,500.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m suddenly reminded of former Sony PlayStation boss, Ken Kutaragi, infamously telling consumers<\/a> they should want to \u201cwork more hours\u201d so that they can afford a PS3. Maybe we\u2019ll all need second jobs to afford book-style foldable phones. Or just stick to our non-folding ones; they work just fine too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Google announces its new family of Pixel 10 phones next month on August 20, there will likely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1121,49,48,1122,192,1123,190,1124,61],"class_list":["post-37325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-android","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-foldables","tag-google","tag-google-pixel","tag-mobile","tag-smartphones","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}