Massive Pixel 11 leak just revealed almost everything about Google's next phones (www.androidcentral.com)

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Google accidentally listed the entire Pixel 11 series on Amazon a month early, revealing pricing, specs, and colors.

Prices are rising by $100 across the board, with the base Pixel 11 now starting at $899 with 256GB of storage.
Google is hit by the memory crisis, with base Pro and Pro XL variants dropping to 12GB of RAM instead of 16GB.
The Pixel 11 Pro Fold starts at $1,899 but drops to a smaller 4,750mAh battery, down from last year's 5,000mAh.

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[-] biscuit@lemdro.id 42 points 1 month ago

I appreciate that they've dropped the 128GB model, but paying more for less RAM highlights the sad state of tech right now 💀

I held onto my Pixel 3 until I got the Pixel 7, and always said I'd wait for the 11. The 12GB RAM is still an upgrade over my 7's 8GB, at least.

Reminder: never buy Pixels at MSRP. There will be great trade-in deals and sales in November, then again in January.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

My Pixel 7 is having a really hard time right now 🫤

[-] eleitl@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Put Graphene OS on it.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Already done. Next?

[-] eleitl@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

What are you running that you're feeling resource limitations?

[-] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

The browser. And the keyboard.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 weeks ago

Really? My old 6 pro still performs like it was new.

[-] eleitl@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

No problems with Ironfox. Don't use Vanadium much. Pixel tablet.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Glad to hear you don't have problems on your Pixel Tablet

[-] eleitl@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

7a also works fine, I just don't use it that intensely. It's too damn small. But same chipset as Pixel tablet.

[-] certified_expert@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

time for cleansing? I've got a P7pro on Graphene OS. Quite snappy

[-] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

The Pro is quite a bit more capable.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Why?/Same processor and complaining about speed.

[-] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

This little thing called RAM

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[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

I'll keep my 9pro, thanks. Graphene OS putting in work.

[-] certified_expert@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

P7pro + GOS here. Snappy as it gets.

[-] eleitl@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

7a GOS. A bit small, but works fine.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The feature I was looking for on the 8 pro was an extended support period for security updates. I'm running this thing until it dies. I hate getting rid of phones prematurely.

[-] atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I broke my 8 pro and I miss it every day. It was a great phone. I liked it more than I like the 9. I bought the 9 on sale so I guess I can't be too mad.

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 month ago

"Leak"

[-] schwim@piefed.zip 14 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't pay more for less memory, regardless of why it was explained that it was happening. Older Pixels with more memory would be a better performer for less money.

[-] biscuit@lemdro.id 4 points 1 month ago

I get that on the face of it it's a bad deal, but I don't think RAM capacity is the only factor in a phone's performance.

Given Pixel's longevity these days, I wouldn't expect Pixel 10 or even Pixel 9 users to be jumping to the 11 anyway.

[-] schwim@piefed.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Definitely not the only but with the memory heavy apps that I use, it's a huge factor.

I think I can probably get to the 12(used) before I decide to upgrade my 9. I'll pick one up once Graphene is released on it.

[-] biscuit@lemdro.id 2 points 1 month ago

Do yourself a favour and just pay to replace your 9's battery. Would keep you going until the 13 or even 14. That's how I'm still using a Pixel 7 today.

I mainly want to upgrade for the improvements to the display, and for integrated MagSafe.

[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

So basically by keeping your Pixel 10 you're getting an upgrade over the new Pixel 11. Now, who said Google wasn't consumer friendly?

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[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 10 points 1 month ago

Does anyone realistically use 16GB of memory on their phone? I think my Pixel 8a has 6GB and I think I'm alright?

[-] biscuit@lemdro.id 5 points 1 month ago

I notice apps closing on my Pixel 7 with 8GB every now and again, but it's totally not a big deal for me. I can imagine certain users who swap between Reddit, Instagram and some game want more RAM, but most users won't care or notice.

Part of it is longevity too, right? With phones being supported for longer and longer you kinda want more of a headroom as apps and OS become more RAM-heavy.

This 12GB limit probably isn't going to stop me from upgrading, but I certainly wont be paying MSRP.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Apps will only keep getting ram hungry for little while due to inertia. But that era is over. Programmers got away with demanding more ram because ram was cheap. Each new device doubled or tripled their ram capacity every year. That era is over for good. Even if the LLMs bubble pops today, prices won't go down for the next decade at least. With these new devices—consoles, phones, computers—keeping or even reducing ram capacity from previous generations, developers have no choice but to hold back their ram race.

Add: eventually the developers will have to optimize or there will be no market capable of running the software.

[-] RxBrad@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago

I hate it, but it's true.

When consumer prices tripled, sales didn't go down anywhere near the 2/3 where they'd only break even. Instead, sales only dropped 15-20%, so they got massive profit & revenue increases while providing less.

To the manufacturers, that's their signal that this is simply the new price.

[-] mellejwz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Well in the case of Pixel phones there's Gemini that can use a lot for on device stuff. Apps can also use quite a bit nowadays, you can definitely see the difference between 6 and 12-16GB of ram.

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Interesting. I wouldn't have expected commercial AI assistants to compute a lot of stuff on device. For speed / response time reasons, and battery drain. Other than maybe speech recognition... Guess I'm not up to date anymore. I haven't tried Gemini. Most fancy stuff I use is speech recognition and Google Lens, respectively "Offline Translator" to translate Chinese, Japanese or Korean writing on products in the Asia supermarket. That app is perfectly alright with just the 6GB on my phone. But yeah, generative AI in form of a large language model or an image generator won't fit. I've tried a few other open-source local AI apps and it can't do any of the usable AI models.

[-] mellejwz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It's mostly from the Pixel 10 and up.

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Less battery on pixel fold is pretty horrible, considering the Razr Fold now has 6000 mah.

[-] baronvonj@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

We really need to normalize using amp hours instead of listing values of thousand of miliamp hours.

[-] kibblebits@quokk.au 7 points 1 month ago

6,000,000 µAh

[-] Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Petty,I like it.

[-] SatyrSack@quokk.au 6 points 1 month ago

We really need to normalize using watt hours

[-] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

watt-hours*

For some reason we use watt-hours for laptops but haven't managed to figure out how to do the same for "phones".

[-] porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

That's a mad battery. Not a lot of reasons so far to not go Motorola....

[-] manualoverride@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Still rocking the iPhone X, and wondering if I can hold out until their 20 year anniversary phone next year…. But GrapheneOS on a Pixel is tempting.

[-] biscuit@lemdro.id 2 points 1 month ago

Isn't that iPhone out of support?

[-] manualoverride@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yup 9 years old and still working though, banking apps still work but a number of apps I used to occasionally use are no longer working, but nothing critical.

[-] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have a Pixel 10 and it is by far the most bug-ridden phone I've ever had. I thought Oneplus was bad...

It's no wonder that most Google employees use Iphones.

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