Pixel 11 Pro just went official — Tensor G6, 120x zoom, and a price bump nobody's surprised about

Google made it official yesterday at the Made by Google e...

Google made it official yesterday at the Made by Google event in New York — Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro XL are real, alongside the Watch 5.

The Pro model gets the new Tensor G6 on a 2nm process, a Titan M4 security chip, and a telephoto that now stretches to 120x Pro Zoom (up from 100x on the 10 Pro). Display peak brightness moved from 2,200 to 2,400 nits, and there's an anti-scratch coating layered over the usual Gorilla Glass Victus 2.

Here's the part that'll annoy people: the base 256GB and 512GB models only get 12GB of RAM — down from what you'd expect on a flagship this price. Only the 1TB version gets 16GB. Google's line is that Android is tuned well enough now that 12GB performs like more RAM used to. We'll see. Battery also shrank slightly — from what I can tell it's a fraction of a percent, so probably not something you'd notice day to day.

US pricing starts at $1,099 for the 256GB model — same as last year's 256GB 10 Pro, since Google just dropped the 128GB tier entirely instead of raising prices outright.

None of that tells us what it'll actually cost landing in Karachi or Lahore, though. Pixels have never sold through an official Google Store here, so it's import/grey-market only, same as every Pixel before it. Given the exchange rate and how RAM prices have been moving globally, I wouldn't be shocked if the non-PTA import price comes in higher than what the 10 Pro launched at.

Anyone seeing early dealer listings yet? Curious what OLX and the Lahore/Karachi phone markets are quoting before actual stock lands. We're pulling together a proper price + import breakdown, with real PTA tax numbers, over on gsmsharing.com — drop your dealer sightings below and I'll fold them in.