New Delhi, Aug. 26 -- Google's Pixel line of smartphones have always given a sense of being very good phones, but somehow not quite being as popular as they should be. The Google Pixel 11 Pro is one of the best phones on the market, yet its overall presence, profile and offering is of such understated elegance that one can see why it may fly under the radar for most buyers. Case in point: Google's market share in annual smartphone sales by volume in India is less than 1%-about a tenth of rival Apple's market share. That, though, has nothing materially to do with the fact that if one is looking to buy a flagship Android smartphone in India, it could well be the Google Pixel 11 Pro.

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