AT&T won't sell Google's Pixel 9 Pro Fold

Vlad, 13 August 2024

Earlier today Google finally made the Pixel 9 family official, including the Pixel 9 Pro Fold. If the company's second ever foldable smartphone caught your attention, we have some bad news for you if AT&T is your carrier of choice.

For whatever reason, AT&T has decided not to sell the Pixel 9 Pro Fold. That's despite the fact that it's offered its predecessor, the original Pixel Fold, and will also have all the other Pixel 9 devices ready for its customers.

AT&T won't sell Google's Pixel 9 Pro Fold

The carrier hasn't detailed the reasoning behind its rather baffling decision, unfortunately. Its stance does have the potential to affect Google's sales of the foldable in the US, since AT&T has almost 72 million postpaid subscribers and people in the US are most used to buying their new devices from their carriers.

If you don't mind buying your Pixel 9 Pro Fold elsewhere in unlocked form, you probably will be able to use it on AT&T, but keep in mind that as of now the carrier hasn't confirmed that it will certify the device for use on its network, so the situation is still iffy.

The good news (at least if you're not an AT&T customer) is that both Verizon and T-Mobile are going to be selling Google's new foldable. It will become available on September 4 starting at $1,799.

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Reader comments

Somehow T-Mobile is the only bring-your-own-phone carrier in the US. If you have stand-alone 5G on band 71, you're good. You could get by on just bands 2 and 4/66 if you don't mind signal instability. Verizon and AT&T have a list...

  • Bamagirl81
  • 18 Aug 2024
  • Y6Z

Well, I guess since AT&T won't be offering the new pixel fold, I guess I'll be switching carriers. I have the first pixel fold and I love it and have been waiting impatiently for the second to come out and now it's a big disappoint...

  • Anonymous
  • 15 Aug 2024
  • vaS

I'm so glad US no longer dictates the direction of smartphone market globally. I hate how Nokia was screwed by this one during Android 1.0 days. All because no carrier offered their devices for "FREE" for those that can't math.

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