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Google Pixel Fold may have been put on the back burner
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Google may have ditched or delayed plans to launch aPixel Foldphone, if supply chain rumours are to be believed.
There’s been a fair amount of hype concerning a potential Google foldable, with all signs pointing to the tantalising prospect of a pure AndroidSamsung Galaxy Z Fold 3rival.
Now Ross Young of Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) claims that “Google has decided not to bring the Pixel Fold to market”. Or at least, not in 2021, and not during the first half of 2022.
Bad news for those waiting for the Google Pixel Fold. We hear they have canceled parts orders and decided not to bring it to market as indicated in the latest DSCC Weekly Review. See blog excerpt athttps://t.co/EVmWKcgi2c.@DisplaySupplypic.twitter.com/2P5lFW09Pt
You might think that a new phone arriving in the dregs of 2021 might be rather unlikely now anyway. But DSCC hadpreviously claimedthat the Google Pixel Fold could launch before the end of 2021, hence the inclusion of that seemingly unnecessary detail.
According to thosesupply chain sources, Google doesn’t believe that its foldable phone would be sufficiently competitive. It’s claimed that the Google Pixel Fold wouldn’t have been able to match the Fold 3’s in-display selfie camera, and that its cameras wouldn’t have been up to the standard of thePixel 6 Pro(pictured) orPixel 6.
We’re tempted to point out that the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3’s in-display selfie camera wasn’t very good, and that its main cameras were far from state of the art. But we’ll move on.
It still seems likely that Google will launch a foldable phone at some point, quite possibly in the second half of 2022. The announcement ofAndroid 12Llast month seems custom made for the foldable form factor, and that’s due to roll out in early 2021.
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