Yes, a folding Google Pixel is well planned. It should even have been released at the end of 2021, but the current context and manufacturing difficulties prompted Google to postpone its release twice.
Officially, nothing has been announced on the side of Google’s Pixel range concerning a possible folding smartphone. Unofficially, several clues have already pleaded for the existence of such a project. Latest, the presence of a mention “isPixel2022Foldable” in the code for the Google Camera app, alongside the names of the other devices in the range. It was enough for market observers to lend Google the intention to surprise us by launching its first folding phone at the end of the year.
Initially planned for the end of 2021
However, during the recent Google I / O 2022, the company took the lead and went so far as to reveal the design of its future Pixel 7 and 7 Pro which however will not see the light of day before the fall – at the same time time than the Pixel Watch. But nothing about a possible “Pixel Fold”, as some call it. Contradictory information which prompted our colleagues to The Electric to carry out their little investigation.
In the end, they announce that if a Pixel Fold was indeed planned for 2022, its launch would have finally been postponed to 2023. It would even be the second time that Google would postpone its marketing, since the company initially planned to do so. release in late 2021 to accompany the release of Android 12.1 (12L). However, this version of the OS had focused on the management of large tablets and other folding smartphones.
Let’s take advantage of this information to take stock of the rumors around the technical specifications of this hypothetical Pixel Fold. It would offer a 5.78-inch exterior screen and a 7.57-inch diagonal main screen when unfolded, with a general design and a grip reminiscent of the Oppo Find N. Yet it is Samsung that would provide Google some of the components of the phone. Indeed, the latter would intend to manufacture his smartphone using a hinge, an Oled screen and a folding protective glass manufactured by the South Korean, which already has some experience with folding phones with its Flip and Fold ranges.