The Google Pixel Fold is official, those from Mountain View have taken advantage of Google I / O to announce their first folding phone that comes with a prohibitive price.
Within the framework of the Google I/O of 2023, those of Mountain View have made a series of most interesting announcements, starting with the new Google Pixel 7a that arrives together with the Google Pixel Tablet. But this has not been all since The Google Pixel Fold has been officially presentedGoogle’s first foldable phone.
It has not been a surprise because Google published a video on Twitter in which the design of the Google Pixel Fold could be seen in full. This short video allowed us to fully see this first foldable book-type phone from Google that arrives to compete with the proposals from Samsung and OPPO.
Considering the little surprise of this launch, we are going to take a closer look at what it means that Google has launched its first foldable phone. In the first place, it must be taken into account that Google is a bit late in entering this market and, as it is, what is expected is excellence, in fact, no mistakes are allowed.
The Google Pixel Fold has no room for error as Samsung had with its first foldable. In the middle of 2023 and with launches every year by Samsung, Google must be clear about the strategy, benefits and what users are looking for in a folding phone. Let’s see if all this is true in the new Google Pixel Fold.
Google Pixel Fold: those of Mountain View point to folding phones
The Google Pixel Fold, as its name suggests, is a book-format folding phone, which means it has a vertical hinge. This 180-degree hinge allows you to fold the 7.6-inch screen inside to fold it and store it in your pocket as if it were a conventional phone. The chosen processor is the Tensor G2 together with the Titan M2 security chip.
The 7.6-inch interior screen is OLED which allows it to be foldable, its resolution is 2,208 × 1,840 pixels which makes it compete with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4. Of course, this is not the only screen that we will find on this device since being a folding device also It has an outer panel.
In this case, Google has decided to bet on a 5.8-inch diagonal, being a more than respectable size for a screen intended to be used less than the interior. The technology used in this screen is OLED, which will allow it to offer an expected visual quality and according to a premium device such as the Google Pixel Fold.
Leaving aside the screens, we are going to do a little review of the aesthetics of this folding device from Google. It is a Google Pixel with all the letters, which means that it shows off the colors typical of these devices, among which are black and white, in addition to having accents such as the one seen in the camera module.
This module is made up of three sensors just like in the Google Pixel 7 Pro. The sensors chosen are all 48 megapixels, although they have different distances and optics. The first is an everyday lens, the second an ultra-wide angle, and the third a telephoto lens with 5x optical magnification and up to 20x digital magnification.
Being a google pixel Like the Pixel 7 or Pixel 7a, different image capture modes such as astrophotography have been integrated to capture the night sky in the best possible way. In addition, the external screen can be used as a monitor when taking selfies with the rear cameras.
It is the first foldable phone from Google and this means that there is an optimization exercise behind the menus and applications. As commented by those in Mountain View, More than 50 applications have been optimized so that their operation is consistent with that of a folding screen like the Google Pixel Fold.
Besides, Google has also released a desktop mode for this device which makes it a direct competitor with Samsung’s proposals. The best of all this is that by launching these new features for Android, it is expected that the rest of the companies will adopt the new features with the new Android update.
Price and availability of the new Google Pixel Fold
Google’s new foldable will not be cheap and, in fact, there is still no official price for Spain. But Google has given the figure with which it will reach the UK market and we are talking about 1,899 euros. Yes, it is not a device for all budgets and this may weigh more than the benefits of the folding screen.
The aforementioned configurations go through 12 GB of RAM along with 256 GB or 512 GB of storage. We will have to wait for it to arrive in Spain to be able to test it and tell the experience offered by the first Google folding both at the hardware level and at the software level due to the enabling optimization that they have introduced.