The Google Pixel Fold feels like a device meant to be used as a folding phone on Android 15 instead of a phone and tablet unceremoniously glued together. It's the kind of polish I hoped for from the beginning, but better late than never. I was beginning to worry whether my steep monetary investment in Google's first folding phone would be a loss.

This is the Pixel 9, what Google calls as a phone full of firsts, and to which I'm gonna partially agree. See, this particular phone represents a change in Google's ever-changing approach to smartphones.

While the 9 Pro Fold has a left-aligned rectangular camera module with rounded corners, the OnePlus Open sports a centrally-aligned circular camera module. Interestingly, OnePlus has placed the LED flash outside the camera module in the top-left corner.