{"id":49002,"date":"2026-07-13T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=49002"},"modified":"2026-07-13T10:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T10:00:26","slug":"whats-the-point-of-foldable-pixel-phones-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/?p=49002","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the point of foldable Pixel phones anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>I distinctly remember being ecstatic when the original Pixel Fold launched. After years of living with a category dominated by Samsung, a company whose products I don\u2019t particularly enjoy, it felt like Google was finally taking the foldable category seriously. As a tech enthusiast, I speak for all of us when I say we hoped Google\u2019s clean software vision and great camera processing would bring fresh life to a market dominated by Samsung.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to today, and the entire landscape has completely changed. Foldables are no longer a rare luxury or a tech experiment; they are a mature, highly competitive product segment where everyone is fighting for dominance, and there\u2019s no shortage of options. Even more if you\u2019re not in North America.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I distinctly remember being ecstatic when the original Pixel Fold launched. After years of living with a category dominated by Samsung, a company whose products I don\u2019t particularly enjoy, it felt like Google was finally taking the foldable category seriously. As a tech enthusiast, I speak for all of us when I say we hoped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,342,92,363,343],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-foldable-phones","category-google","category-google-pixel","category-google-pixel-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedinet.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}