Google Pixel Fold could fight Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 with cheaper price

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Google Pixel Fold could fight Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 with cheaper price

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Update: A new written report from the same source has a more than specific figure for the Pixel foldable'south price : $1,400. And job listing hints that Google could be returning to the tablet arena .

Google's Pixel Fold was rumored to be coming at the tail end of 2021. That obviously didn't happen, and while we may exist looking at the second half of 2022 now, the good news is that it may be more than competitively priced than the best foldable telephone currently dominating the market. And we may also accept an official name.

Someone with "proven knowledge most Google's Pixel plans in the by" has told 9to5Google that Google's offset effort at a foldable will undercut the $1,799 Samsung charges for its latest Galaxy Z Fold three.

While that may just audio like sensible business, it'due south worth remembering that the Galaxy Z Fold 3 is itself a $200 price cut from the previous generations. We haven't seen any price rumors for the Galaxy Z Fold 4, which isn't expected until later on this year. For Google to push its first-generation foldable for less than the market leader is pretty aggressive, especially when you consider the sunk R&D costs of bringing an entirely new product to market.

Pricing aside, 9to5Google'south source also provided two other tidbits.

Firstly, the branding: Google is plain toying with the name "Pixel Notepad," It's not a bad bit of branding, considering the expected book-similar form factor, recently teased via the Android 12L beta, but for me the name does imply some kind of stylus support. If there isn't — and we've heard nada to advise in that location is — then the name feels a bit misleading. That said, manifestly the name "Logbook" was also in contention and, in the about diplomatic way possible, I'm pleased that one has apparently been shelved.

Secondly, the site's source says that availability is apparently set up to mirror the Pixel 4a'south 2020 release, where the device was first made bachelor in the US before expanding to other countries at a later date. For the Pixel 4a, this was only a calendar month, but the Pixel Notepad (or Fold or Logbook) will probable face a more drawn-out process.

Hitting that price point

While it'south important to take all 3 of these suggestions with a compression of table salt (even 9to5Google calls its ain report "rumor"), let'south assume everything is correct. Exactly how would Google undercut Samsung at the first attempt?

A couple of previous rumors could throw some light on this. The first is the rumored chipset: similar the recent Pixel 6, information technology'due south believed that Google'southward beginning foldable volition use the company'southward homegrown Tensor SoC. Given the Pixel six and Pixel 6 Pro undercut the leading Qualcomm powered devices, that saving would too probable use to any future hardware sharing the chipset.

Secondly, and more than disappointingly, a code dive of the Google Photographic camera app suggests that the upcoming foldable could be something of a photography downgrade from the recent Pixel 6 handsets. While Google's latest handsets accept used a 50MP camera, it looks like the Pixel Notepad will use the same IXM363 sensor found in everything from 2018's Pixel iii to 2020's Pixel five.

To be articulate, those phones punched higher up their weight in terms of photography cheers to Google's best-in-class image processing. And if information technology means a thinner device — the Pixel vi's photographic camera hump being very much an caused taste — then it's probably the right phone call on a handset that will already be the width of two phones when folded.

These two specs alone may non be plenty to undercut the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3, simply they would certainly brand for a good start.

Freelance contributor Alan has been writing about tech for over a decade, roofing phones, drones and everything in between. Previously Deputy Editor of tech site Alphr, his words are plant all over the spider web and in the occasional magazine too. When not weighing up the pros and cons of the latest smartwatch, you'll probably find him tackling his e'er-growing games backlog. Or, more likely, playing Spelunky for the millionth time.

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