At the beginning of this year, the first rumors of the first Folding pixel of Google, currently known as the Pixel Fold for its supposed resemblance to the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3, since among other leaks it is said to have the same 7.6-inch display made by Samsung.
It was expected that this Pixel fold o Pixel Passport will hit the market later this year, which we can already completely rule out. Firstly because Android 12L will arrive next year and because the app Google Camera confirms the year in which the Google’s first foldable, Outraged first details of their cameras
The Pixel Fold would arrive in 2022
When Google announced last week that its next version of Android suitable for large-screen and foldable devices would arrive in the first quarter of 2022, it was already clear that Google was not going to launch its supposed foldable device for the rest of the world. ‘year. , since its version of the operating system was still in development, with the launch of the supposed Pixel Fold also going to 2022.
And this is the date that appears in the source code of the latest version of the Google Camera app, in the lines of code of which the reference appears “isPixel2022Pliable”. This would confirm that the foldable Pixel is real and will arrive in 2022. Google uses these types of benchmarks to differentiate between different generations of its Pixels. For example, the reference “isPixel2019” corresponds to Pixel 4 and 4 XL (October 2019) and “isPixel2019MidRange” to Pixel 3a and 3a XL (May 2019).
It would be the Pixel Fold cameras
This version of the Google Camera application also details the sensors that this “Pixel Fold” will use, whose code name appears in the application as “Pipit”. In the source code, it looks like the Google Fold will have a very similar sensor setup to last year’s Pixel 5. Perhaps to keep costs down, or surely for design reasons, Google won’t add the same sensors as the Pixel 6 when it first folds.
The Pixel fold I would use the sensor as the main camera IMX363 of 12.2 megapixels that Google uses from the Pixel 3 to the Pixel 5a. It will not embed the new GN1 sensor of the Pixel 6.
What the Pixel Fold appears to be wearing is the same sensor IMX386 12 megapixels for ultra-wide cameras, like the Pixel 6. Then two sensors appear IMX355 8 megapixels, one labeled “internal” and the other “external”. These last two sensors would be for the front camera of the external display and the front camera of the internal display (unfolded). The configuration of Pixel Fold cameras would look like this according to the source code:
- 12.2 Megapixel IMX363 main camera
- 12-megapixel IMX386 ultra-wide camera
- Two 8-megapixel IMX355 front cameras:
- One for the outdoor screen
- One for the indoor screen
Via | 9to5Google
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