Google Pixel Fold: Dummy unit highlights ultra-thin design of Google’s first foldable smartphone

Dave2D has obtained a clean mannequin of the Pixel Fold, doubtless months earlier than Google launches the gadget. Arriving a month after @OnLeaks shared a 360-degree video render of the gadget, proven beneath. Reputedly, the case producers use dummy models like these to fabricate equipment in time for a tool’s launch, with Dave2D claiming to have been informed that it’s dimensionally correct.

According to the YouTuber, the Pixel Fold is 5.7 mm thick, 0.6 mm thinner than the Galaxy Z Fold4. Unsurprisingly, the Pixel Fold adopts the lengthy digital camera bar discovered on the Pixel 6 and the Pixel 7 collection. However, the digital camera doesn’t span the gadget’s full width, in contrast to on the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro. Dave2D provides that the 5.79-inch cowl show with a flat end, making it similar to the equivalents within the Oppo Find N and Find N2. The Pixel Fold is noticeably wider than Oppo’s efforts although, which may make it tougher to make use of with one hand.

While Dave2D claims that the Pixel Fold folds flat, its foldable show has reasonably thick bezels. The YouTuber speculates that Google could have gone down this route to cut back manufacturing prices, however the gadget is predicted to launch in late summer time or early autumn for an eye-watering US$1,799. Supposedly, the gadget’s skill to fold flat can even give it a shallower crease than the Galaxy Z Fold4, though Samsung continues to make minor generational enhancements on this regard. As such, the Pixel Fold could also be in contrast towards an improved Galaxy Z Fold mannequin every time Google lastly brings it to market and never the present Galaxy Z Fold4.

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