Google looks to surprise with foldable Pixel phone launching this year

(Pocket-lint) - Google whitethorn person the tech daze of the twelvemonth up their sleeves, and a bid of caller reports seems to adhd a batch much credence to that idea. According to aggregate sources, Google is readying connected announcing the company's precise archetypal foldable Pixel smartphone, and that mightiness explicate wherefore the institution has been truthful atypically anxious to show disconnected the Pixel 6 line months earlier its launch. 

Display proviso concatenation adept and expert Ross Young regularly makes aboriginal merchandise predictions, and according to AppleTrack has a stellar 100% cleanable accuracy standing erstwhile it comes to his rumours. Recently, helium tweeted that users should expect to spot a "Pixel Fold" by the extremity of 2021. 

Pixel Fold volition travel archetypal astatine extremity of 2021...

— Ross Young (@DSCCRoss) June 7, 2021

^{Straight to the point, yeah?}

BGR besides notes that whispers coming from Korean suppliers look to bespeak that Google is ordering OLED displays and UTG solid - which is the sanction Samsung is utilizing for its flexible displays arsenic seen connected some the Galaxy Z Fold and Flip 3. 

Now, possibly the astir damning grounds to corroborate the beingness of the Pixel Fold comes from straight wrong Android 12, arsenic references wrong the codification look to notation a instrumentality with a codename dubbed "Passport", thing galore successful the Google assemblage judge to beryllium a moniker for a foldable Pixel. For context, Oriole and Raven are believed to beryllium Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, portion the "Slider" remains unknown. Rollable Pixel, anyone? 

Oriole, Raven, Passport, "Slider" are 4 retired of 5 devices that person a modem referenced arsenic "g5123b". The astir caller Samsung Exynos ("shannon") modem is 5123A. Can't corroborate the past 1 close now.

— cstark27 (@Cstark_27) August 11, 2021

Usually, Pixel pre-release accusation leaks faster than a breached food tank, but this year, it's been Google who've taken full power of the cautiously curated Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro accusation and selling imagery. Will the Pixel Fold beryllium the daze to the tech satellite it seems similar it could be? 

Check retired each our sum of the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro close here. 

Writing by Alex Allegro. Originally published connected 13 August 2021.