Google Pixel 11 Series, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag: Specs, Features, Price, Release Date

Google is dialing things up to 11 this twelvemonth with its Pixel phones. Ahead of its yearly Made by Google lawsuit successful New York City, the institution unwrapped the Pixel 11 smartphone family—which includes the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold—alongside the Pixel Watch 5 smartwatch. There's besides a caller hardware addition: the Pixel Tag, which seems designed to beryllium the AirTag of the Android world.

Here's everything you request to cognize astir the hardware changes and bundle upgrades connected Google’s latest devices. Preorders unfastened today, and the phones and watches spell connected merchantability August 20.

The Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro Fold

It was inevitable, but prices are up crossed the committee for Google's Pixel 11 series. The Pixel 11 present starts astatine $899, and connected the highest extremity of the spectrum, the Pixel 11 Pro Fold is present $1,900. This means some devices got $100 terms bumps. There's immoderate bully news: Google has bumped the basal retention up to 256 GB connected each device, a determination matching Samsung's and Apple's latest handsets.

The Pixel 11 bid is powered by Google's Tensor G6 chipset, which the institution says is 20 percent much powerfulness efficient, 25 percent faster for browsing, and 15 percent faster erstwhile loading apps. Many of the camera improvements successful the caller devices are acknowledgment to an improved imaging awesome processor connected the spot and a 50 percent much almighty tensor processing unit.

One large plan alteration crossed the full Pixel 11 bid is connected the oval camera barroom connected the back—it's present an all-glass surface, arsenic opposed to a premix of metallic and solid connected its predecessors. Google says the camera barroom connected the Pixel 11 is much than 40 percent thinner, and erstwhile you popular connected Google's case, the camera barroom disappears and is wholly flush. The Pixel 11 has the astir striking colour of the lot—Hibiscus—joined by much muted Pistachio, Frost, and Obsidian.

The Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro Fold stock much successful communal than you'd expect. They present person the aforesaid superior 48-megapixel camera, upgraded this twelvemonth with a larger sensor that tin seizure up to 56 percent much airy for brighter low-light images. The 10.8-megapixel telephoto camera, which has a 5X optical zoom, tin present digitally zoom up to 30X. At these higher integer zoom levels, Google's instrumentality learning algorithm puts successful the enactment to cleanable up the integer sound and present an enhanced photo.

Google's folding telephone is present 10 percent lighter and 1 mm thinner than the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, with slimmer bezels astir the screen, though the telephone is inactive heftier and thicker than Samsung's caller Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra. It maintains its IP68 dust- and water-resistance rating, but there's a caller glass-fiber composite backmost screen that Google says is “nearly intolerable to crack” and an upgraded hinge that amended protects the interior show from accidental drops. All of this, Google claims, makes the instrumentality three times much durable than its predecessor. Bold words.

The Fold features HiLight, a glowing LED connected the backmost (excluded connected the Pixel 11 but disposable connected the Pixel 11 Pro phones). It lights up erstwhile you speech to Gemini, overmuch similar the glowing lights connected the caller Google Home Speaker. You tin acceptable it to airy up successful circumstantial colors erstwhile you person telephone calls from your favourite contacts. Google says it's exploring the aforesaid capableness for substance messages, but didn't remark connected whether it volition alteration HiLight for different notifications.

Both phones person been upgraded to 25-watt wireless charging speeds for faster Qi2 charging.

The Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL

Even if the Pixel 11 Pro Fold has “Pro” successful its name, a fewer other upgrades successful the candybar Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL elevate them to beryllium the champion hardware and bundle from Google. Both stock the aforesaid specs extracurricular of surface size, artillery size, and charging speeds. They besides are seeing $100 terms bumps to $1,100 and $1,300, respectively.

The caller colors this twelvemonth are Canyon, Olive, and Fog, but the modular Obsidian (aka black) present has an all-matte finish. The aforesaid HiLight glowing LED arsenic connected the Fold is connected the all-glass camera barroom (Google is besides bringing backmost the “Glowbar” connected its upcoming Googlebook laptops aboriginal this year, truthful these glowing lights are a large taxable for 2026). There's a caller anti-scratch show coating that purportedly delivers much than treble the scratch absorption of the Pixel 10 Pro.

Google says the main camera for the Pixel 11 Pro and 11 Pro XL has been upgraded to a caller 50-megapixel sensor, and there's a caller 48-megapixel telephoto camera that Google claims has 30 percent amended airy sensitivity. The Pro enactment present uses this camera for its Pro Zoom feature, which uses generative AI to capable successful the gaps of ultra-zoomed-in photos, allowing you to zoom up to 120X compared to 100X connected past year's devices.

Thanks to the Tensor G6 chip, there's a large upgrade to Night Sight, Google's low-light photograph mode. Exclusive to these 2 devices, it's present 4.5 times faster and dubbed “Instant Night Sight.” That means your taxable won't person to enactment ace inactive successful dim conditions portion the telephone captures the shot—it's a small much forgiving. That upgraded representation awesome processor connected the spot besides unlocks 4K representation video for the archetypal time. (It was capped astatine 1080p before.)

These 2 Pro Pixels are inactive the lone ones successful the lineup to enactment Google's Video Boost technology. If enabled, your video clips are uploaded and processed connected Google's servers to amended brightness and colors, trim noise, and upgrade stabilization. This year, they'll present beryllium treated to “Pro Stable Video” arsenic well. It volition automatically activate for shaky scenes and present super-stable footage. Samsung and Apple person been delivering connected that beforehand mostly done hardware, but it's nary astonishment that Google's leveraging its bundle expertise instead.

Pixel Software Smarts

There are a fistful of caller camera features disposable connected each of these phones, from Magic Capture—which lets you clasp the telephone up portion Gemini drawback pics and video connected your behalf truthful you tin beryllium successful the moment—to Camera Looks and adjacent a built-in teleprompter. You tin work much astir them successful this story, wherever we besides interrogation Google's Pixel camera chief.

These Pixel phones volition person the Gemini Intelligence features that debuted successful Android 17, similar Rambler, the AI speech-to-text feature. But Google is besides highlighting Gemini's “proactive assistance,” which comes successful the signifier of glowing cards that chiefly popular up successful the messaging app. If idiosyncratic texts you astir meal plans and suggests a restaurant, Gemini volition connection a fastener that displays a paper of the Google Maps listing, giving you a speedy look astatine the prima standing and immoderate pictures, and the enactment to power to the Google Maps app if you want. It'll bash akin tricks for scheduling with Google Calendar, too.

Those kinds of proactive assistance features play nicely into Google's task automation features that it introduced earlier this year. So if a person asks astir booking a array astatine a restaurant, you'll spot a fastener you tin property to manus the occupation disconnected to Gemini to marque the booking connected your behalf. (You'll request to corroborate it astatine the end, but Gemini does each but the past step.) One caller acquisition launching successful beta volition adjacent proactively enactment a restaurant's sanction connected your fastener surface erstwhile you're seated—tap it, and you'll beryllium capable to glimpse astatine Gemini-generated insights from reviews, photos, and top-recommended dishes.

Another diagnostic disposable connected each devices but uniquely much adjuvant connected the Pixel 11 Pro Fold acknowledgment to its folding design: the quality to construe American Sign Language. Using the camera, it tin presumption a idiosyncratic utilizing motion connection and construe it into substance for faster interactions.

In a akin vein, Google says the Tensor G6 spot allows it to construe immoderate media you ticker and perceive to connected YouTube and prime different video and podcast apps, utilizing generative AI to automatically dub audio successful existent clip (much similar Meta's AI audio dub diagnostic successful Instagram), bringing america 1 measurement person to the cosmopolitan translator from Star Trek.

The Pixel Watch 5

The large caller diagnostic with Google's Pixel Watch 5 isn't really circumstantial to the caller smartwatch. Google is introducing the quality to way humor unit and insulin absorption trends successful the Google Health app. These features aren't FDA-approved oregon cleared (more details here), and Google does not urge utilizing them for diagnosis oregon treatment. However, Google plans to get the seal of approval. The caller tracking abilities volition beryllium disposable for the Pixel Watch 3, Pixel Watch 4, Pixel Watch 5, and Fitbit Air successful September.

As for the hardware itself, overmuch of Google’s efforts this twelvemonth look to revolve astir speeding things up and improving performance. Powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 Accelerated spot with a Cortex-M55 co-processor, Google says the Pixel Watch 5 offers 20 percent faster processing. The dual-band GPS is besides doubly arsenic close astatine way mapping successful pugnacious environments similar cities, and Google is truthful assured that it claims the Pixel Watch 5's GPS outperforms the Apple Watch Ultra 3 and the Garmin Fenix 8 Pro. The surface tin deed a highest brightness of 3,000 nits too, matching the Apple Watch Ultra 3.

Part of the velocity improvements besides mean surfacing adjuvant accusation erstwhile you request it, and Google says its At a Glance diagnostic volition bring up applicable details, similar Gate accusation erstwhile you're astatine the airport, oregon however galore stops are near connected your autobus way home. Also, you tin yet usage Gemini adjacent erstwhile the ticker is not connected to the net to negociate definite tasks, similar timers, alarms, and workouts, with your voice.

Also caller is Sleep Breathing Quality, which monitors minute-by-minute variations successful your humor oxygen levels, which could assistance you recognize however your prime of slumber is affecting your wide energy, recovery, and bosom health. And past there's Breathing Emergency Detection, which tin spot an exigency telephone connected your behalf if you're unresponsive and it detects a persistent driblet successful oxygen levels, similar with cause toxicity accidents, pneumonia, oregon choking (though, erstwhile again, this diagnostic is not cleared by the FDA). Google says this diagnostic is launching archetypal successful prime European countries.

The 41-mm Pixel Watch 5 costs $399, oregon $429 for the 45-mm size, and you'll person to wage much for the models with cellular connectivity. There's besides a Stephen Curry Edition for $579 launching connected September 3, with an exclusive sweat-wicking show loop band.

The Pixel Tag

Google has made concerted efforts to upgrade its Find Hub web implicit the past twelvemonth to bring it connected par with Apple's Find My, and the icing connected the barroom is its precise ain tracker: the $29 Pixel Tag. It's made with a premix of integrative and metal, is rated IP67, supports ultra-wideband for precise tracking, and weighs 0.4 ounces. It's powered by a user-replaceable CR2032 coin compartment artillery that lasts much than a year.

Pair the tag with your Android instrumentality (it lone supports devices moving Android 9 oregon newer), and it'll usage the monolithic Android web to relay your mislaid item's location, whether the tag is connected your keychain oregon successful your wallet oregon backpack. Google says you tin find and ringing the tag not conscionable done phones but done WearOS smartwatches with the Find Hub app, oregon inquire Gemini done your Pixel Buds. Unlike the remainder of the hardware connected amusement today, the Pixel Tag won't beryllium disposable close away; it shows up connected November 11.