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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor

UNCOVERED: Pixel 11 review google sets the bar for standard flagship phones - The Untold Story

A hand holds a Pixel 11 smartphone displaying a home screen full of colourful app icons.
The latest Google phone is most refined yet, offering the best balance of price and features for base-model flagship handsets. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian

Google’s Pixel 11 continues to set the standard for what you should expect from the base model of a flagship phone with class-leading cameras, long software support and almost all the bells and whistles of its most expensive phones.

The regular Pixel 11 costs £879 (€999/$899/A$1,499) making it £80 or equivalent more expensive than last year’s model as the cost of RAMageddon continues to bite. It’s not cheap by any stretch of the imagination, but it comes with 256GB of storage and is £200 less than the Pixel 11 Pro, matching rival Samsung’s Galaxy S26.

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