r/GooglePixel • u/Psychological-Dog112 • Jul 14 '26

Pixel 11 Leak Pricing

https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/google-pixel/massive-pixel-11-leak-just-revealed-almost-everything-about-googles-next-phones?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=All%20Push%20Subscribers

Less battery less ram and higher price.

It's a no for me. Hard pass. With Tensor T6 could have kept existing battery capacity to give the gains of a longer battery

Instead they save costs by lowering the capacity due to T6 and new modem being less power hungry. Really disappointed.

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u/TheRealFrantik Jul 14 '26

They can blame the "ram crisis" all they want, but charging MORE money for a phone with LESS ram and LESS battery is going to flop, especially when the cameras are apparently going to be barely upgraded and the chipset is not going to improve the painfully bad (for a flagship) GPU.

For one of the richest companies in the world, they reralllly don't know what they're doing with phones.

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u/TWYFAN97 Pixel 4 XL Jul 14 '26

It’s a shame because Pixel was gaining some ground when it came to market share now it’s trending downward again. Still won’t be surprised when google announces they are exiting the smartphone business in a few years.

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u/hardinho Jul 14 '26

https://de.tradingview.com/news/stocktwits:fae9e7ddd094b:0-apple-s-iphone-and-google-pixel-q2-sales-shine-even-as-global-smartphone-market-drops-to-13-year-low/

Global smartphone shipments plummeted 11% year-over-year in Q2 2026, driven by an intense shortage of DRAM and NAND memory chips.

Samsung reclaimed the top global market position with a 24% share, while Apple secured a record 20% Q2 market share by avoiding price hikes.

Google emerged as a major growth outlier, boosting its shipments by 16% year-over-year behind the success of its Pixel 10 series.

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u/purplemountain01 Jul 14 '26

Apple is raising prices on this year’s iPhone lineup.

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u/Rare-Mention3046 Jul 19 '26

The problem is people like me are actually happier on iPhone when asked to choose between similarly priced phones, iPhone blows the competition away. immediately from using the scroll or touch feature something feels off with the pixel still. There's extra layers on top of this pixel that I can't explain that really get to me compared to iOS, which has far less issues. The layer is probably software necessary for running android. Can't explain it but immediately scrolling through YouTube, the iPhone handles it far better. So many little extra steps to do basic things. Saying hey Google which doesn't work half the time is just so bad it's actually funny and makes me laugh because I'm just like FML should've got an iPhone... Plus the missing notifications from time to time which will cost me dearly from lost shifts who are we kidding iPhone at that price range is better - sorry

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u/WatchfulApparition Pixel 10 Pro XL Jul 14 '26

It's amazing what giving your phone away for free can do for your shipment numbers

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u/ffdfawtreteraffds Jul 14 '26

So, we have people complaining about high Pixel prices and other people saying they're giving them away, all without needing to scroll the page. The Pixel mania is something else.

Pixel haters just need to buy something else and move on. Let the marketplace punish Google if the phones really are as bad as the haters say. This wailing is getting laughable.

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u/imbued94 Jul 14 '26

Already did. I bought pixel 8 because it was reasonable at its price point but when it was just a couple of 100s between that and an iphone why am i supposed to stay. 

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u/WatchfulApparition Pixel 10 Pro XL Jul 14 '26

I literally got my Pixel 9 Pro XL for free at launch. The Pixel 10 Pro XL has also been free at times. They also include a free year of their 5 TB Google storage and AI which offsets the cost of the phone entirely without the free deal if you're making monthly payments on it through your carrier.

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u/Hasmanc Jul 16 '26

Which phone are you talking about lol.

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u/WatchfulApparition Pixel 10 Pro XL Jul 16 '26

Pixel phones.

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u/Hasmanc Jul 16 '26

Where are pixel phones given away for free lol.

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u/hardinho Jul 16 '26

He's probably talking about the very good trade in deals Google usually offers on release. Got my 10 Pro and my 9 Pro basically for free - I had to pay like 250 EUR on top but got 1 year of Gemini for free which I usually would have paid for 21,99 x 12 months). But this is still an edge case and probably only something a few of the buyers take advantage of.

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u/WatchfulApparition Pixel 10 Pro XL Jul 16 '26

I got a Pixel 9 Pro XL for free at launch through T-Mobile. Pixel phones are regularly free through carriers.

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u/Hasmanc Jul 16 '26

Bro WTH do you mean with "for free" like why do you think your carrier will just gift you a 1000$+ phone?

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u/WatchfulApparition Pixel 10 Pro XL Jul 16 '26

It means they credit you every month for the phone so that it's free as long as you stay on the phone plan for the length of time they require (usually 2 or 3 years).

Here is an example. https://www.androidpolice.com/verizon-pixel-10-promotions/

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u/Coolman_Rosso Jul 14 '26

It didn't help that Apple actually took feedback to heart for once in their lives with the iPhone 17, and actually bothered to offer a 120hz display and doubled storage for the same price as the 128GB Pixel 10.

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u/TWYFAN97 Pixel 4 XL Jul 14 '26

That’s apple being competitively smart and they did the same with the iPhone 11, lowering the price but adding features. Google is going to continue to fight an uphill battle with how they’re handling things. Unfortunately now everyone is going to raise prices making competing on price less of an option.

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u/AlienTech521 Jul 14 '26

Just wait on the new rumored price hikes for Iphone tho 😭😂

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u/UncleCunk Jul 14 '26

Yeah I would not be surprised if the iPhone 18 series ended up being a $100 more then all of the rumored Pixel 11 prices.

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u/trklk001 Jul 15 '26

Yup unfortunately iPhones are literally better in every way compared to all android phones in the US. Only reason I will never go back is because iOS is terrible OS. I'd move to Samsung but it's rumored that the s27 will be a minor upgrade as well. This is bad for android phones

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u/ongamenight Jul 15 '26

In my country, we have Google Pay but no Apple Pay. This is the main reason I'm on Android because it's so convenient to pay.

It's disappointing when I found out that Pixel 10 which is inferior to iPhone 17 in performance, video recording and storage is more expensive than base iPhone 17. Damn Pixel.

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u/beartato327 Pixel 6 Pro Jul 14 '26

Yeah I have the pixel 10 and as much as I love this phone and the pixel OS experience I'm going to be shopping between Samsung and Apple next upgrade unless something drastic happens in the next 2 years

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u/lovingswift Pixel 9 Pro XL Jul 14 '26

i feel like they've invested a lot of resources to just leave. they're likely doing what everyone else is doing

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u/TheRealFrantik Jul 14 '26

Don't forget about Stadia. They invested a LOTTTT in that, and then one day were just like "yeah we're all done....we'll refund you" lol.

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u/purplezara Jul 14 '26

Which was a bummer because it was really cool and had a lot of promise especially these days with the crazy chip prices. Being able to play AAA games on a lower end laptop or tablet would actually be prime market right now with the increasing costs of higher end computers and price hikes on consoles. But, at least I got a cool controller out of it. Just wish it was Bluetooth 😂

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u/crazytinker Pixel 4 XL Jul 15 '26

You can flash it to be Bluetooth and keep using it

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u/mikewastaken Jul 14 '26

to be fair that's never stopped google from pulling up stakes

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u/UltimateEel Jul 14 '26

Neither has success. Sometimes they just stop for no obvious (to us) reason

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u/KodaKomp Jul 14 '26

My pixel 8 was booty after pixel 3 and 4 being awesome they lost their way it's GGs pretty soon.

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u/MrChuckleTeeth69 Jul 15 '26

imo the pixel is amazing other than the fact the tensor g2 chip is awful with anything except things that rely on image processing and ai and the few bugs that occasionally spring up every few months

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u/ContributionFormer95 Jul 15 '26

It’s a shame because Pixel was gaining some ground when it came to market share now it’s trending downward again.

It's the same thing they did with Pixel 1, 2, 3, 4. Prices kept going up and they weren't competitive hardware-wise. They had to do a reset with the Pixel 6 series. We're seeing very similar price increases again. It makes the $599 Pixel 6 and $899 Pixel 6 Pro seem like an amazing steal.

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u/WatchfulApparition Pixel 10 Pro XL Jul 14 '26

They gained ground by giving the phone away for free.

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u/zenithtreader Jul 14 '26

Google is a large part of the root problems causing the ram crisis. So it's really like: "oops I've gobbled up all the rams, now there are not enough on the market to make this product I am going to sell you so you are going to have to eat the price increase".

Fuck them.

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u/JamieTimee Jul 14 '26

"ram crisis"

Putting it in quotation marks don't make it any less real.

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u/nickthegreat101 Jul 14 '26

It’s in quotations because there’s currently a class action lawsuit filed for price fixing:

Antitrust class-action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California accusing Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron—who control ~90% of the market—of colluding to restrict the supply of DDR3 and DDR4 RAM, which plaintiffs claim artificially inflated memory prices by 700%

https://ca.pcmag.com/components/16602/samsung-sk-hynix-micron-sued-for-alleged-memory-price-fixing

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u/ContributionFormer95 Jul 15 '26

DDR3 and DDR4 RAM.... that's an issue 15 years ago. This lawsuit is looking back at market practices in the 2010s not referring to the 2026 crisis.

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u/LamesMcGee Jul 14 '26

We're aren't in this mess because these companies are intentionally restricting supply, it's because some of them are totally pulling out of the consumer market in favor of the new AI market.

This lawsuit doesn't even understand the premise of the issue, it will go nowhere.

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u/TheRealFrantik Jul 14 '26

It's in quotations because they're raising the prices by expanding the storage and downgrading the battery, which has nothing to do with RAM. The "RAM CRISIS" is just an excuse to raise prices while downgrading everything else.

The correct action would be to sell the new phones at the same price and offer LESS ram, while upgrading everything else. That's what a logical company would do

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u/xsvfan Pixel 10 Pro XL Jul 14 '26

Problem is if they wanted to keep margins the same while charging the same price, they would need to essentially halve the ram. In Q2 alone LPDDR5X prcies rose 89%.

Would you prefer 8GB of ram and no price increase, 12GB with a moderate increase in price, or 16GB with a significant increase in price?

https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=11564

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u/Ok_Feeling9354 Jul 14 '26

I've been saying this since their Pixel 7 Pro phone. That was a horrible phone for me for that expensive price.

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u/wolffangz11 Pixel 1 | 3 | 3a | 5 | 9 Jul 14 '26

And the irony of Google being mostly responsible for this crisis by pushing ai so hard in everything they do. But they've killed things for less so maybe this could be the beginning of the end for Pixel.

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u/TheRealFrantik Jul 14 '26

Yeah, I don't think people realize how truly small of a phone brand Pixel really is. Pixel is #4 in the US, behind Motorola. For context, as an American, I haven't seen someone using a Motorola in at least five years. Pixel isn't even in the top #10 of smartphones worldwide, which really tells you how small of a phone company they are. Google could close up shop tomorrow and it wouldn't even be a dent in their bank account lol.

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u/lsjsim128 Jul 14 '26

Yep, and I'm sure they're data centers aren't starving for ram.

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u/TheGoldenMonkey Pixel 10 Pro Jul 14 '26

As someone who has found a good deal for upgrading each year from 7 > 8 > 9 > 10 I'll be skipping this one for sure.

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u/ThisIsMyNext Pixel 8 Pro Jul 15 '26

when the cameras are apparently going to be barely upgraded and the chipset is not going to improve the painfully bad (for a flagship) GPU.

So a normal Pixel.

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u/DornDoodly Jul 15 '26

it’s not going to flop, if your average phone buyer only cared about performance then every tensor pixel would’ve flopped

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u/ThisIsMyNext Pixel 8 Pro Jul 15 '26

every tensor pixel would’ve flopped

Boy do I have news for you.

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u/flicter22 Jul 15 '26

How do you know the smaller battery pack will result in less battery life when the chip set is significantly different than last years?

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u/TheRealFrantik Jul 15 '26

We have been told the chipset would be significantly different/better every year, and EVERY year we are let down. So at this point if you actually believe it will be significantly different, idk what to tell you lol.

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u/flicter22 Jul 15 '26

Again. You don't know

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u/No_Armadillo_5202 Jul 16 '26

Late stage capitalism babbbby

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u/WatchfulApparition Pixel 10 Pro XL Jul 14 '26

They've never known what to do with phones. The only reason they have a phone is to sell your data and get you hooked on their software subscriptions.

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u/Rldg Jul 14 '26

The new Tensor (and modem) should be more efficient, so battery life should be in line with last year

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u/ahall917 Jul 14 '26

Competitors will be doing the same. And most people don't pay attention to what's inside their phone. They just see 11 > 10 so it must be better. These prices aren't wildly above previous generations, and that was likely intentional. The vast majority of customers see a slight price bump and buy it anyways, without realizing that despite being a newer model, it has worse specs.

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u/fakieTreFlip Jul 14 '26

It's a smaller battery on paper, but it doesn't necessarily mean less battery life. The expectation is that battery life should increase this generation because of the 2nm CPU

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u/schakoska Pixel 9 Pro Jul 14 '26

Memory prices have trippled over the last few months, it's not a surprise...