The 9 Pro Fold’s cover screen is essentially the same size, shape and aspect ratio as the base Pixel 9. After using it for several weeks, and spending the last year with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 and Fold 6, it’s clear that a larger cover display on a folding phone should be the standard.

The OnePlus 12 builds on the momentum of the OnePlus 11; it offers a fantastic display, premium build quality, and flagship power with its Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. Although you're sacrificing software support, it's less expensive than the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL. And you do pick up fast charging, with 80W wired fast charging.

I've used the Pixel 9 Pro XL since it was released, and there's a lot to like about it. There are also a few things that need work.

Apple's iPhones have always packed some of the best cameras you can get in a phone. So how does the new iPhone 16 Pro stack up against Google's best Pixel 9 Pro XL? I took them both out around the beautiful city of Edinburgh for a faceoff to find out.

Night Sight wouldn’t appear on Google phones until the Pixel 3 in 2018. However, the Pixel 2 XL already had the pieces for excellent low-light imagery, combining optical image stabilization with Google’s computational wizardry to produce more detailed nighttime photos.

An iPhone 16 Pro Max vs Pixel 9 Pro XL camera shootout carried out in a variety of indoor and outdoor lighting conditions has seen the iPhone declared the winner, albeit by a relatively slim margin. You might not get that impression when you first start reading the piece,