Sure, they both run Android, but the Pixel 10 Pro Fold and Galaxy Z Fold 7 are fairly divergent from there. Physical form factor, in particular, is one area to watch this year. Without wasting any more time, let's jump in and do some comparing. Both phones are expensive, but what do you actually get for the money?

And now that you can get one for $1,700, that question just got a lot easier to answer. It's still pricey—you can get Samsung's non-folding flagship, the Galaxy S25 Ultra, for around $1,300—but it might be just affordable enough now to be worth the splurge, depending on how much you like big screens.

The Galaxy Z Fold 7 finally feels like a leap, not because it reimagines the foldable phone, but because it refines it with surgical precision. The Fold 7 landed in India at a hefty Rs 1,74,999, and is Samsung's slimmest Fold yet,