{"id":1635,"date":"2023-03-07T06:47:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T11:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itparadise.net\/2021\/03\/07\/googles-first-folding-pixel-is-apparently-still-on-track-for-a-2021-reveal\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T09:53:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:53:44","slug":"googles-first-folding-pixel-is-apparently-still-on-track-for-a-2021-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/?p=1635","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s first folding Pixel is apparently still on track for a 2021 reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"6nxU1r\">Google may have shied away from a Pixel Watch, but a Pixel Fold still very much seems to be on the way \u2014 following a leak last August that revealed the company was planning to release its first folding Pixel phone in late 2021, Korean industry site <em>TheElec<\/em> is now reporting that Samsung will begin production of folding OLED panels this October for Google, Vivo and Xiaomi\u2019s upcoming folding phones, all of which will reportedly be revealed late this year. <\/p>\n<p id=\"BAfTpk\">Google hasn\u2019t exactly kept its folding phone ambitions a secret; in 2019, it published patent applications for its own folding screens and admitted it had been prototyping them for quite some time, telling <em>CNET<\/em> that it didn\u2019t have \u201ca clear use case yet.\u201d But now, it appears Google has a foldable, codename \u201cPassport,\u201d that could be nearly ready to announce. <em>9to5Google<\/em> even spotted a new reference to it last month in Android 12\u2019s code, alongside other codenames believed to be the upcoming Pixel 6 and Pixel 5a 5G. <em>TheElec<\/em> says it\u2019ll have a single 7.6-inch panel that folds inward, while Vivo\u2019s upcoming phone will have a 8-inch main screen and a 6.5-inch outer display. It didn\u2019t mention the size of the new Xiaomi phone\u2019s screen.<\/p>\n<p id=\"5uSRFA\">It\u2019s not clear whether a Pixel Fold would actually come with a display designed by Google itself, though it\u2019s possible; Samsung acts as a contract manufacturer for many other companies, producing some of Apple\u2019s homegrown processors as one example. Either way, one portion of the screen\u2019s sandwich may still largely belong to Samsung itself: <em>ETNews <\/em>reports that Samsung will supply its proprietary ultra-thin cover glass (which is technically made by German manufacturer Schott) to other smartphone manufacturers, and Google is expected to use it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-read-more__intro\">\n    Related\n  <\/p>\n<h4>Folding glass: how, why, and the truth of Samsung\u2019s Z Flip<\/h4>\n<\/aside>\n<p id=\"2vekEL\">Xiaomi already announced a folding phone earlier this year, the Mi Mix Fold, but it sounds like it\u2019ll have a second one. <em>TheElec<\/em> also reports Oppo will be delaying a new foldable phone to 2022, with a 7.1-inch main screen and a smaller outer one between 1.5 and 2 inches diagonally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google may have shied away from a Pixel Watch, but a Pixel Fold still&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[59,38,57,61,58,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2043,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions\/2043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itparadise.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}