Google buys back your (expensive) iPhone so you can upgrade to Pixel

• Google recently unveiled its folding smartphone, the Google Pixel Fold
• To attract new customers, the manufacturer offers to buy back your iPhone
• The recovery price sometimes reaches almost 1,000 euros

Although announced as not available in France, Google's new folding mobile, the Pixel Fold, is already generating a lot of buzz in the United States, where the device will be released on June 27. Its manufacturer indeed offers very attractive trade-in prices, particularly for iPhones. Let's take the case of an iPhone 13 Pro Max in good condition, with 128 GB of internal storage. Alphabet offers here900 dollarsin exchange, for “only” 630 dollars in the Apple Store. We can also cite the case of the iPhone 13 Pro (128 GB), which Google agrees to exchange for 850 dollars against 530 dollars at Apple. The amounts are quite close in euros.

Such sums, particularly substantial, could easily allow Mountain View to gain some market share in anticipation of the arrival of a possible folding smartphone from Apple. It is indeed assumed that Tim Cook's company is preparing its own alternative toPixel Fold. The latter has a hinge considered to be the most robust on the market, but Cupertino has apparentlymore than one trick up his sleeveto counter this value proposition.

Google Pixel Fold technical sheet

With its large 7.6-inch screen once unfolded, it must be said, the Google Pixel Fold has it in spades. Its battery could last three days in energy saving mode, and the processor, onepuce Tensor G2, was also designed by Alphabet. With this, the mobile is powered by no less than 12 GB of RAM. That's simply twice as much as an iPhone 14 Pro or iPhone 14 Pro Max, although their successors would increase to 8 GB.

At Apple, the technical characteristics of the future folding iPhone remain unknown. Neither its size nor its performance have been leaked yet. However, it is almost certain that like the other editions under iOS, the beast is also equipped with a proprietary processor. The rest is still questionable.

Google Pixel 7a VS iPhone SE 3

Alongside the Google Pixel Fold, Alphabet also unveiled the Pixel 7a, whose price and technical sheet could directly compete with Apple's third generation iPhone SE. So of course, the screen is larger (6.1 inches versus 4.7 inches) and here users are also entitled to more RAM (8 GB versus 4 GB), but the price is of the same order of magnitude.

Count like this509 eurosfor a Google Pixel 7a (128 GB), compared to 559 euros today for an iPhone SE 3 (64 GB).