The Pixel Fold is Google's first foldable phone in a market dominated by Samsung. Foldable phones fall into two categories: the Galaxy Z Fold and the vertically foldable (Galaxy Z Flip) series. Can Google continue in this field? market?
Google's new Pixel Fold is thinner than any foldable phone on the market because Google took a completely different approach to welding design where the phone only has two slits on the top and bottom, making it thinner and more compact. Folded in the palm of your hand or in your pocket, however, it offers a wide screen diagonal of 7.6 inches when open.
The Pixel Fold has a very similar exterior design to Pixel phones like the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, with a single camera on the back covered by a metal band. The phone is available in two colors: white and black.
Here are the main new features of Google's foldable Pixel Fold:
1- Take group selfies easily:
Google phones generally have a powerful camera system, but in foldable phones, large and wide screens usually make it difficult to take pictures, especially group selfies, but this is not the case with phones. Google foldable.
You can fold the phone 90 degrees and place it on a table, then switch to the selfie camera to get the shot you want, or place the phone on any surface to frame it and adjust the shutter speed, knowing that everyone benefits from it. The effect of shooting with a wide angle camera.
Even better, if you want to control the shutter remotely, you can use a palm swipe gesture in front of the screen or a voice command from Google Assistant to take a photo without touching the screen.
The Pixel Fold also allows you to take really high-quality group selfies using the rear camera, where you can fully unfold the phone and use the external display as a viewfinder and the 48MP rear camera for great selfies.
2- Easily watch videos while doing other activities:
Many users like to watch videos while preparing food, eating or doing sports. However, in order to watch videos on a regular phone, one must always hold the phone, which can be difficult, or hold the phone on a surface, which can cause the phone to fall. .
But with the Google foldable phone, thanks to the hinge, you can place the phone at different angles on a table and watch videos with ease. If something in the video catches your eye, you can unlock the phone and look at it on the table. Big Screen.
3- The big screen makes multitasking easier:
The Google Pixel Fold has a 5.8-inch (OLED) external display and a 7.6-inch foldable internal display. When closed, you can use the external screen like any traditional smartphone screen, but when opened, the internal screen gives the user all the benefits of a tablet.
Many of the user's favorite apps have also been optimized to make the most of the spacious interior screen. It provides users with a taskbar to easily switch between an application and a separate compatible application, allows both applications to work in tandem, and supports the ability to drag and drop files between different applications.
And the phone (Pixel Fold) works great with productivity applications, as you can see most of the toolbar options in spreadsheets, and there are different display modes in presentations, including the familiar desktop format, and if you use Google Docs, you will find plenty of space For the best toolbar content plus a large keyboard for fast typing.
4- Animated and resizable keyboard:
If you want to text on a Pixel Fold phone or use the keyboard in any app, you have several options: First, you can make the keyboard stretch across the entire screen, giving you a large keyboard for fast typing receive.
Secondly, when using the internal screen, you can only open the keyboard to half of the screen, which is very useful when using split screen mode to perform two tasks at the same time, for example: watching a YouTube video and sending an email in Gmail.
Third, you can also resize the keyboard to whatever size you want and move it around the screen, which is great for typing an email describing something on the other half of the screen.
5- Supports five years of operating system updates:
When you spend $1,799 on a smartphone, you definitely want to use it for the long haul. The high price is one of the main reasons not to buy a foldable phone, but given the durability and long-term support for OS updates, it's worth it.
The Pixel Fold will have software support for five years from the release date, so a new version of Android isn't likely to be available until 2028.