Google Announces the Pixel 10 Lineup, With More AI and Magnetic Charging

Google has officially announced the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro and Pro XL, and a genuinely dustproof foldable, the Pixel 10 Pro Fold phone. Unsurprisingly, the announcement was each astir AI features, including the quality to crook your photos into videos, built close into the phone, each presented during Made by Google contiguous successful a cringingly-awkward speech amusement format hosted by Jimmy Fallon. And AI aside, they each travel with 1 happening that astir Android phones inactive lack: built-in magnetic charging, which Google is calling Pixelsnap.

So it's 4 phones, with the modular Pixel 10 starting astatine $799, the Pixel 10 Pro astatine $999, the Pixel 10 Pro XL astatine $1,199 (a bump from the 9 Pro XL's $1,099, but with treble the starting retention astatine 256GB), and the Pro Fold is $1,799. The Pixel 10s travel successful blue, green, a pinkish white, and achromatic colors, though Google decided to marque them much muted successful the 10 Pro models, I conjecture due to the fact that pros aren't allowed to person fun. The 10 Pro Fold comes successful conscionable grey and green.

Pixel 10 By the Numbers

The Pixel 10's cameras are antithetic this year, but whether it's an upgrade oregon not is up to your priorities. There are 3 cameras, alternatively of conscionable two, successful the basal exemplary Pixel 10 – the modular Pixel 10 present has a 10.8MP telephoto camera. However, Google made the different cameras a small worse than the Pixel 9, truthful present the Pixel 10 present has a 48MP main camera alternatively of a 50MP one, and a 13MP ultrawide with a 120-degree tract of presumption (FOV), versus the 48MP with 123-degree FOV successful past year's phone. The Pixel 10 Pro and Pro Fold models diagnostic the aforesaid camera specs arsenic their 9 Pro equivalents.

Google besides bumped the artillery capableness of each of the phones versus past year: The 10 Pro XL has 5,200mAh (up from 5,070mAh); the 10 Pro has 4,870mAh (up from 4,700mAh); and the Pixel 10 has 4,970mAh (up from 4,700mAh). Finally, the 10 Pro Fold features a 5,015mAh battery, up from 4,650mAh before.

Otherwise, these are mostly the aforesaid phones arsenic before, with precise akin show specs and mostly the aforesaid RAM and retention specs (except, again, there's nary 128GB Pixel 10 Pro XL model).

The Pixel 10 Pro Fold gets existent particulate ingress protection.

The Pixel 10 Pro Fold Can Handle Dust

The Pixel 10 Pro Fold whitethorn look similar a 9 Pro Fold, but it has immoderate notable changes speech from Qi2 charging, including 1 precise big, important one: it's IP68-rated, meaning it's sealed against particulate ingress. That's a large woody successful the satellite of foldables, and a triumph for the Pro Fold's durability, assuming it holds up good capable implicit time. Dust and waterproof ratings bash use to a telephone erstwhile it's released from the factory, but that extortion tin degrade arsenic you ain and usage the phone. Foldables thin to person occupation with dust, particularly successful their hinges, wherever it tin interfere with their folding.

As for the remainder of the phone, Google says the phone's hinge present uses nary gears and is "twice arsenic durable" arsenic that successful the 9 Pro Fold. The institution besides claims the folding show is much drop-resistant and that it tin grip "over 10 years of folding." It besides gets a somewhat larger 6.4-inch outer display, compared to 6.3 inches successful its predecessor and keeps an 8-inch interior screen.

Magic Cue from the Made by Googe presentation.

Pixel 10's Biggest Upgrades

Inside, these phones are equipped with a Tensor G5 spot that Google says has a 34 percent faster CPU and a 60 percent much betterment successful section AI show compared to the Pixel 9. The phones person MagSafe-like magnetic rings embedded into their backs, with 15W wireless charging successful the modular and Pro Pixel 10s and 25W charging successful the Pixel 10 Pro Fold, giving the caller Pixels a limb up implicit Samsung's "Qi2 Ready" Galaxy S25 series, which has nary magnets and lone offers up to 15W charging erstwhile you adhd a magnet case. Google calls its magnetic charging "Pixelsnap."

With the caller Tensor G5 chips comes caller on-device AI features. The institution showed disconnected a slew of them, including 1 called Magic Cue. This diagnostic reacts to your messages by presenting a fastener that tin propulsion accusation from different apps to respond to texts. If idiosyncratic asks what clip meal is, you mightiness beryllium capable to pat a fastener to reply with the time, arsenic taken from a meal reservation. If they inquire erstwhile your level is landing, the fastener tin stitchery info from a formation email. It pulls its accusation from each sorts of places, including your calendar, Gmail, and Google Photos, and tin enactment successful immoderate app that you'd usage Gboard, Google's keyboard.

The institution is besides letting AI seep further into your smartphone photography. The institution announced a caller Camera Coach diagnostic that offers suggestions for framing and composition, for instance. And erstwhile you digitally zoom your photograph mode successful – up to 100x – the institution brings successful an AI exemplary to cleanable the representation up, adding successful much item than the camera lens could person perchance captured. Note my usage of "adding" there. The Verge notes that Google is utilizing AI diffusion models to make detail; besides that it won't enactment connected radical and that immoderate AI-altered images volition get a C2PA contented credential tag noting it was edited with AI. Still, it'll beryllium amusive to spot what nonsense it comes up with for substance photographed astatine that range.

Pixel 10 phones volition travel with a afloat twelvemonth of Google AI Pro, the company's AI subscription work that gives you entree to a fig of the company's AI features and usually starts astatine $19.99 a month.

Now Up For Preorder

All 4 of the caller phones are up for preorder connected Google's website today. They'll beryllium disposable October 9th, truthful you'll person to hold a spot to get it. We'll support an oculus connected things and fto you cognize astir deals arsenic they hap (Google Fi is offering an $800 promotion if you articulation and bargain a Pixel 10 Pro Fold close now, for instance).

Wes is simply a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they telephone him) who has covered technology, gaming, and amusement steadily since 2020 astatine Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and astir recently, The Verge. Inside of him determination are 2 wolves: 1 that thinks it wouldn't beryllium truthful atrocious to commencement collecting crippled consoles again, and the different who besides thinks this, but much strongly.