GSMArena Crew,
19 August 2026.
Design
The design of the Pixel 11 Professional has seen very minor adjustments. The principle distinction is the brand new digicam bar on the again, which now has edge-to-edge glass. You may additionally discover that there’s now one much less factor again there, and that is as a result of the temperature sensor has been eliminated.
The digicam bar on the brand new Pixel 11 Professional fashions is completely huge by way of its peak, and offers the telephone a correct slope if you put it down on its again. The great factor is that there is nonetheless no wobble because it runs the width of the again.
There are additionally some new colours this 12 months, which is to say, there are some precise colours this 12 months, as final 12 months’s palette was fairly monochromatic. There’s Canyon, which is a lightweight orange with gold trim, and Olive, which is a darkish inexperienced, however with a lighter gold trim. Fog, which is the one we’ve right here, has a lightweight blue again with silver trim, and eventually Obsidian with black trim. Additionally new for this 12 months is that the black Obsidian shade comes with matte sides fairly than shiny, making it the one matte possibility on the Professional fashions.
That apart, there’s not a lot new to speak about within the design of the Pixel 11 Professional. Even the size are principally an identical, with the newer fashions being ever so barely smaller and lighter, however not in a means you’d discover. It is solely the Fold that is noticeably lighter, however that is a dialogue for an additional evaluation.
However, that is nonetheless a good-looking design that additionally occurs to be fairly distinctive. The Pixel 11 Professional feels fairly premium in hand, due to the polished aluminum body. The telephone additionally has a pleasant heft to it, which, mixed with the small measurement, makes it really feel dense and beneficial.
Google additionally despatched over its first-party case for the telephone in an identical shade. The case is sweet sufficient, with metallic buttons and a felt-lined inside together with built-in magnets for wi-fi charging. Nonetheless, it’s fairly costly, and it’s possible you’ll be higher off with one of many aftermarket alternate options.
Show
The Pixel 11 Professional has the identical 6.3-inch LTPO OLED show because the earlier technology mannequin. It has a decision of 2856 x 1280 and helps as much as 120Hz refresh charges. There may be wide-color help, though the panel remains to be simply 8-bit, regardless of the HDR performance.
There are two adjustments this 12 months. First, the panel is barely brighter, so that you get 2400 nits HBM (up 200 nits) and 3600 nits peak (up 300 nits). It’s laborious to note these variations at these values with the bare eye, however the show was already very vivid, and this could make it even brighter.
The opposite distinction would not actually have something to do with the show itself however fairly with the glass overlaying it. The Corning Gorilla Glass Victus 2 glass now comes with an anti-scratch coating, which Google claims makes it 2x extra scratch-resistant. Which may turn out to be useful contemplating Google would fairly you retain the telephone dealing with down.
Getting again to the show, that is nonetheless an excellent panel with excessive decision and nice colours. Google units the default DPI to the optimum worth for the OS, however this does make all the pieces look small, and you will want to vary the scaling from the settings for a extra snug measurement. The show additionally has a built-in ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, which additionally works effectively.
Nonetheless, we’ve come to anticipate some niceties on different units, lots of which are not even thousand-dollar flagships. For starters, Google nonetheless makes use of a conservative 240Hz PWM dimming frequency for the show. We now even have funds telephones hitting 3840Hz and in addition providing a DC dimming possibility, so 240Hz is just insufficient at the moment on any telephone with an OLED show. There may be an possibility to extend this to 480Hz within the accessibility settings, but it surely’s not clear why this can be a separate possibility and what the price of utilizing it’s.
Second, plenty of telephones now even have the power to make use of the touchscreen even when the show or your fingers are moist. That is nonetheless not out there on Pixel units, so a moist display screen or fingers will simply trigger the touchscreen to begin tripping with false or undetected touches.
Battery and charging
The Pixel 11 Professional has a 4850mAh battery, down barely from the 4870mAh of the Pixel 10 Professional. Whereas it’s an insignificant distinction, the truth that a unfavourable distinction even exists in any respect is questionable contemplating Pixel telephones are hardly identified for his or her stellar battery life.
We are going to get to full battery testing in our full evaluation later. For now, suffice it to say, the Pixel 11 Professional remains to be very a lot a one-day telephone that you can be plugging in on the finish of the day. We at the moment are at a degree the place we’ve telephones that final two and even three days on a single cost on account of developments in battery expertise. Nonetheless, these developments are but to succeed in American shores as Google and Apple proceed to serve reheated dinners from decades-old battery applied sciences.
Extra reheated dinners come within the type of wired charging speeds. We’re nonetheless getting a completely radical 30W USB-PD PPS charging, a pace as trendy and in with the instances as that description.
Contemplating neither the charging speeds nor the battery has modified a lot over the earlier technology mannequin, the charging speeds on the Pixel 11 Professional are the identical as on the Pixel 10 Professional. That’s to say, it is nonetheless pretty sluggish, particularly for a battery that’s this comparatively small.
The telephone reaches the marketed 55% on the 30-minute mark, however a full cost nonetheless takes about an hour and a half. Should you set the telephone to solely cost as much as 80%, it can take about 50 minutes to perform that. The charging charge is completely linear until about 70%, after which it begins slowing down, after which it actually slows down previous 90%. There’s something known as Excessive Charging Mode that triggers and pauses background exercise and non-essential apps to enhance charging speeds. Nonetheless, we did not discover any such possibility within the settings, so it needs to be automated.
The precise enchancment this 12 months comes from sooner wi-fi charging, which on the Pixel 11 Professional can now obtain the complete 25W on the Qi2 commonplace. There are built-in magnets in place so you do not have to put money into particular circumstances to get MagSafe-like performance.
