픽셀 9 프로 폴드: 인상적인 디자인 및 성능 리뷰

### 픽셀 9 프로 폴드의 인상적인 발전: 종합적인 리뷰
* 📱 호주에서 돌아온 후 열심히 **Pixel 9 Pro Fold를 테스트**해 본 결과 **이전 모델인 Pixel Fold에 비해 크게 발전**한 모습에 깊은 인상을 받았습니다.
* 🎨 디자인은 **작년 모델의 둥근 측면**을 벗어나 **더 얇고 네모난 모양**이 특징이며, 카메라 돌기는 독특하지만 전체적인 경험을 방해하지 않았습니다.
* 🖥 디스플레이가 크게 개선되어 **6.3인치 1080P 다이나믹 120Hz AMOLED 커버 스크린**과 **최대 2700니트에 이르는 더 밝고 생생한 8인치 내부 스크린**을 자랑합니다.
* 🔋 작년 모델에 비해 **4650mAh 배터리가 약간 작아졌지만, IPX8 방수 기능과 더 평평한 지문 인식기** 등 휴대폰의 성능과 기능은 '프로'라는 명칭에 걸맞은 느낌을 줍니다.
* 📷 그러나 카메라 시스템은 센서가 작아 특히 저조도 환경에서는 **이미지가 선명하지 않다는 단점**이 있으며, **Tensor G4 칩은 견고하지만 장기적인 성능과 게임 기능에 대한 우려**가 제기되고 있습니다.
* ⚡ 이러한 단점에도 불구하고 전반적인 사용자 경험은 **픽셀 9 라인업의 기능과 더 큰 화면에서 향상된 멀티태스킹 기능**을 포함한 소프트웨어로 향상되었습니다.
* 🗓 7년간의 소프트웨어 업데이트가 약속된 **Pixel 9 Pro Fold는 최고의 접이식 휴대 전화 중 하나**이지만 잠재적 구매자는 더 나은 성능을 위해 **소문난 차세대 Tensor 칩**을 기다려야 할 수도 있습니다.
* 💼 결론적으로, 폴더블폰을 사용하지 않는 사용자를 위한 획기적인 제품은 아니지만, **이 제품은 플래그십 폴더블폰으로서 뛰어난 기능**을 제공하며, 제가 이 카테고리에서 가장 좋아하는 제품입니다.

픽셀 폴드는 플래그십 기능과 접이식 디자인이 인상적으로 결합되어 멀티태스킹을 즐기는 사용자에게 최고의 선택이 될 것입니다.

[Music] All right, so the first thing I did when I got back from Australia was start to catch up on the stuff that I missed. I put my SIM card in the Pixel Fold, the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, and I was impressed, really. Maybe I shouldn't have been so impressed, given how good the other Pixel 99s already are, but it's a folding phone. Folding phones are hard, but the second generation of anything tells you a lot. And even though this is called the Pixel 99 Pro Phone F, it's a second one. The first Pixel Fold was last year, and it was solid. It was one of my favorite foldables to use closed with that passport-style aspect ratio, but it had a number of trade-offs with its price. This one makes some big strides forward. So let me just start with the design. Like, there was a lot of chatter about this camera bump on the back just because of the way it looks, which is, yeah, it's kind of weird, but personally, this hasn't bothered me. It's not like

the biggest wobbler. I wish it was wider like the other pixels. I wish it looked more consistent like the Pixel 9 and 9 Pro. But you don't have to look at it much. I'm guessing it looks like this just because of the complicated internals of a folding phone. But then the rest of the design around this thing is pretty nice. It is much thinner, first of all, and they've flattened the sides all the way around, so it's this more modern, like squared-off shape a lot of other flagships have now. The funny thing is the rounded sides from last year were actually easier to just pry open for a folding phone, so you'll notice that if you use both phones back to back. But this isn't the end of the world. And then there's a bunch of other refinements too. The hinge is a bit smaller, the sides are now sort of matte finish instead of glossy, so now you have matte sides and a soft touch back. And overall, it just feels much closer to a normal slab when

it's closed. It's not fully there, like we're not quite fooling anybody yet, but it's a little over 10 mm thick folded, and there are a lot of other phones from the past year that are around that number. The main change, though, definitely is that it's not that smaller passport size anymore. This is a full-on, like, maxed-out flagship size, 6.3 in 1080P Dynamic 120 Hz AMOLED display. It's big. The last one is more reachable for sure. Now it's much more like the OnePlus open-sized, so it's right around the maximum of actually being able to use the whole screen with one hand. I mean, your mileage may vary, of course, depending on the size of your hands, but yeah, there's also still real bezels all the way around the screen, and it kind of pushes it away from the hinge, so it's off-center. But in general, I still find it very usable, and it just feels more like a regular phone than ever before, which I think is a win. I really like

this cover screen, and then when you open it up, that's when the benefits of being taller really start to pay off, 'cause now you go from a 7.6-inch screen to a slightly narrower but taller 8-inch screen. That's basically now a square, and the screen is way better. It's up to 2700 nits. It's nice and bright. It is actually LTPO when the cover screen is not for some reason, and the bezels have tremendously improved from the first folding pixel. So, they're still a little thick, sure, but now they're nicely even all the way around, and there's a hole punch cut out in the corner now instead of the selfie camera on the thick bezel. And just look how thin that is. Like, it's barely thicker than the USB-C port. This would have been a crazy sentence just a few short years ago, but using this phone, I wager almost everything about the hardware of this Google phone is at or above average, which is crazy. It's like

the harder the part is to make, the better and more above average they are. Like this new hinge is nice and smooth, and the phone opens and closes in a really satisfying way. And it unfolds all the way flat easily, unlike last year's phone. The crease through the middle is, you know, average at worst, but very easy to look past when you're actually looking at content on the screen. And uh, they fit in a 4650 mAh battery inside, which again is a little above average for foldables, even though it's actually slightly less than last year. The speakers in this thin body are very good and full. Uh, the water resistance is here, it's IPX8. The flatter fingerprint reader is easy and quick and fast, and just this hardware feels actually more deserving of the word Pro than ever before. So, you know, they renamed the phone, it has Pro in the name now, but feels like it deserves it. But also little things like the outer display not being LTPO feel weird considering that's the one that

does the always-on thing. That's the one you really want to be LTPO, and it also doesn't charge particularly fast, and there's no CH2, so the phone has this lower-than-normal wireless charging coil that can be kind of annoying to line up and doesn't work on certain chargers, which may feel like nitpicking, but hey, when it's an $1,800 phone, you are definitely allowed to nitpick. Overall though, design-wise, I really feel like they got a lot of stuff right. So yeah, it reminds me of the OnePlus Open from last year, which won my best folding phone of the year. But then this one is a Pixel, and this Pixel software experience ends up being what differentiates it over a lot of other folding phone options out there. Because yeah, there are totally more flashy foldables with more advanced hardware from Vivo and Xiaomi, and there's these razor-thin pieces of hardware with head-turning specs. But if I'm being honest, the software on those typically isn't nearly as good. So here

you basically have all the same features as the rest of the Pixel 9 flagship lineup, which is great. It's call screening, it's the Pixel weather app, it's all the new stuff, basically everything except the thermometer app, and that's fine. So Gemini is actually getting good, like I said in the nine review, and I'm still loving Circle to search. Although on this inner screen, you got to be slightly more careful because the slight difference between hold to Circle to search and the tiny swipe to bring up the dock can kind of take some getting used to. But then there's also all the foldable optimizations, the two-column layouts for so many pieces of Android, the notification, the settings app, so many other first-party apps, and I've just been generally loving the larger size screen because it feels like multitasking and having multiple apps open at once, or specifically something I do a lot, which is picture-in-picture with a small YouTube video window somewhere on the screen, but I'm reading an article or doing something else in a full-size

window. All of that is better on this phone than last year, and this is all Android 14, which is the same as all the other new pixels. But I put Android 15 beta on my old pixel fold, and there are some more folding optimizations. It's just, it's hopefully coming soon, and they promise seven years of software updates on Pixel 9, which is pretty Elite. So, I've said a lot of nice things about this phone, but going into this before I even put my SIM card in it, because I'd read other people's coverage and seen stuff about this phone, is I knew that there would be basically two main downsides to look out for, to keep an eye on, and those are the tensor chip being underpowered and the downgraded camera system. So, okay, it's a pixel, so let's just start with the cameras. Basically, my findings are yes, they are smaller sensors than the main pixels, and yes, they are worse, but they're not horrible, like they're not that much worse that it's a bad camera. Now, basically, you can see the style of

the photos are the same and it's contrasty. It's high dynamic range, but it's not as sharp is my main observation. And this gets exaggerated as the conditions get worse. So in lower light, the photos get softer and lack details faster as these smaller sensors start to fight for light more. So it feels on par with like a Pixel flagship but from a few years ago, like a Pixel 7 Pro. Now that's about it. And that's always been one of the compromises of these high-end folding phones is you know they give you all the software features of the other phones but for $1,800 you would also hope for the maximum quality. But they can't fit all of the same camera sensors in a phone that has all this other hardware and a hinge and everything like that. So if you take a lot of pictures and you're into phones specifically for that, that might be a tough pill to swallow. But if you're not, if you buy it for other reasons and you're not a huge

camera person, then you may be willing to overlook that. Me personally, I rely too much on photos and videos for my phone, so that's tough for me. But the other downside is this tensor chip, and this is another nuanced one. See, Google's tensor chip has never been best in its class, power-wise or efficiency-wise. I'd argue it's been good enough for the phones it's been in, but if you wanted to do high-end gaming, or if you wanted a really extended shelf life for more than a few years, or really amazing battery life, like tensor is holding these phones back. And so, people have been trying to figure out, all right, when is Google going to catch up and get on par with Qualcomm-level flagship chips? And the tensor G4 in the Pixel 9 line of phones, including this phone, is solid, and it's paired with 16 gigs of RAM in this phone, which is awesome and obviously helps with the AI models, but also running the rest of the phone. But it's not amazing, and it really makes you

wonder like okay, it's promised seven years of software updates, but will the phone last that long? Like, these are real questions. But word on the street is next-gen Tensor chip, allegedly maybe, is going to be the one that finally goes from being designed by Google and manufactured by Samsung to the first fully custom Google chip with 3 nanometers and everything. And that could be the huge jump that this needs. That could be a big power jump, a big efficiency jump, but that's just a rumor. So, I would say that if you hear that and get excited about that, which, let's be honest, a lot of the customer base for a $2,000 folding phone actually does care about that stuff, then you should probably wait. I actually feel like you should wait. And this is, it's weird to say that this is both one of the best folding phones I've ever used and you should probably wait just because you don't want to spend this much and then regret your purchase next year. But if that doesn't speak to you, honestly, this

phone as it exists today. It feels great, it looks great, it's smooth. The battery life for me is consistently like 6 hours of screen-on time with mostly small screen activities. But then the sort of 10% of the time that I actually open it and do a lot more big screen use, then you can eat into the battery a bit more. But I just feel like I am productive when I have this phone. Like, it really does accomplish the goal of feeling like I have two phones: the regular-sized flagship when it's closed, and then the mini tablet ready to go at any time for the multicolumn layouts, the multitasking, and big productivity apps for all that stuff that I really sit down and get stuff done on my phone. For this thing, it has been awesome. Oh, and also speaking of ready to go at any time, I just wanted to shout out that the new Ridge wallet that I designed is finally here, and it is a full-grain leather soft wallet, and it's sick. RFID blocking, lightweight, two pockets with easy access.

you can kind of just pop them up from the front or use your finger to glide them up from the back. Fits up to around eight cards. You could put cash in it if you want to also. It's everything you need and nothing you don't. I'll link it below if you want to check it out. I'm really proud of it. But yeah, look, if you're not a foldable person, then this phone may not convince you. Like, it's the same dimensions, the same functionality roughly. Like, it's not a game changer by any means. But if you are a foldable person, this phone has been awesome to use. Like, I've really enjoyed the fact that it really feels like a full-on flagship on the front and feels like a mini tablet when I want one. Two phones in one, that's the ideal foldable phone for me. And uh, yeah, this is my favorite flagship foldable ever to come out. So there you have it. Hopefully Android 15 soon. Thanks for watching. Catch you in the next one. Peace.

Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold Is So Good! But…

Marques Brownlee

Google의 2세대 접이식 휴대 전화인 Pixel 9 Pro Fold는 디자인과 세련된 기능이 인상적인 제품입니다.

더 얇고 네모난 모양, 더 작은 힌지, 무광택 마감 처리로 닫았을 때 일반 휴대폰에 가까운 느낌을 줍니다.

3인치 1080P 다이나믹 120Hz AMOLED 디스플레이는 플래그십의 최대 크기를 제공하여 더욱 유용하고 친숙한 사용 환경을 제공합니다.

이 휴대폰은 밝기가 개선되고 베젤이 균일한 더 커진 8인치 LTPO 화면이 특징입니다.

부드러운 힌지, 4650mAh 배터리, IPX8 방수 기능을 제공합니다.

휴대폰의 디자인과 하드웨어는 평균 이상의 느낌을 주며, 소프트웨어 경험은 다른 폴더블 옵션과 차별화됩니다.

픽셀 9 폴드는 온도계 앱을 제외한 대부분의 기능을 플래그십 라인업과 공유합니다.

폴더블 최적화, 멀티태스킹을 위한 더 큰 화면, 7년간의 소프트웨어 업데이트를 약속합니다.

하지만 카메라 센서의 성능이 떨어지고 카메라 시스템이 다운그레이드되어 저조도 환경에서는 사진이 부드러워집니다.

구글의 텐서 칩과 휴대폰 성능에 미치는 영향

구글의 텐서 칩은 성능과 효율성은 적당하지만 동급 최고 수준은 아니어서 고사양 게임과 휴대폰 수명 연장에 걸림돌이 되고 있습니다.

16GB RAM이 탑재된 픽셀 9의 텐서 G4는 견고한 성능을 제공하지만 7년간의 소프트웨어 업데이트 약속에도 불구하고 장기적인 실행 가능성에 대한 의문이 제기되고 있습니다.

소문에 따르면 차세대 텐서 칩은 완전한 맞춤형 설계와 3nm 제조를 통해 전력과 효율성이 크게 개선된 게임 체인저가 될 수 있다고 합니다.

폴더블 휴대폰은 작은 화면에서도 6시간 동안 사용할 수 있는 배터리 수명과 멀티태스킹 및 생산성을 위해 미니 태블릿으로 전환할 수 있는 기능으로 원활한 사용 환경을 제공합니다.

스피커가 디자인한 새로운 Ridge 지갑은 RFID 차단, 가벼운 디자인, 카드에 쉽게 접근할 수 있어 편리한 액세서리가 될 것입니다.

폴더블폰을 사용하지 않는 사용자에게는 설득력이 없을 수도 있지만, 플래그십 휴대폰과 미니 태블릿의 이중 기능을 좋아하는 사용자에게는 획기적인 제품입니다.