Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Google Pixel Fold”.
Thanks to petal for sponsoring a portion of this video, so i live and breathe smartphones, which is a very weird thing to say. But i love that world, but we kind of hit a wall like two years ago, where, like the rectangle, was perfected, we get different sides of rectangle, sometimes they’re round, sometimes they’re squared off sometimes backs are different, but the rectangle is a rectangle. The first area of innovation we’ve seen in the mobile world in a while has been in the world of foldables it’s something new. They are clearly not perfect and very definitely in their infant stages, but they are getting better and each iteration fixes a problem that came before it. So as new foldables come out on the market, i get pumped not just because i love playing with toys, because what it’s going to mean for the whole smartphone world and the big name that’s being mentioned to enter this foldable space uh is google with either a Pixel fold allegedly we’re going to see at some point in 2022 and also further innovation, and if that phone did end up getting canceled, which i will talk about, what that’s going to mean for the rectangle based pixel 7..
This video is going to combine kind of the foldable world with the pixel world. It’S kind of been going on in my head and i’ve been sort of bouncing around the idea for this video for a while, and mostly i want to talk about the future of the pixel line and whether or not it’s going to go foldable and what i Think is going to be next sort of for google, so, let’s back up a little bit as far as the design goes, the pixel 6 it brought in a brand new. Look that i think, it’s fair to say, was pretty polarizing uh at first, but i think that now that it’s out and people’s got their hands on it, i think it’s a hit. I love the quirky looks of the pixel 6..
I don’t expect google to pivot to an all new look for the next iteration um. It wouldn’t be surprising, though, because they do change their design when a college student changes majors – and this is kind of a gripe that i’ve had with the pixel line. For a few years, it’s had a hard time figuring out what it wants to be and what it wants to do. One year it’s a flagship next year, it’s a mid-range and it’s a flagship again with a new design, it’s hard for it to gain a foothold when consumers are unsure generation to generation what they’re going to get. I do hope that they stick with the current vision of the pixel 6 and that the new visor look is here to stay just more refined. I also wouldn’t be mad at a panda colorway, with the accent button like they used to do. I love that on the pixel when it comes to doing android the right way.
Right, like i mean it’s, google they second to none, they make the software and for years, they’ve prioritized really awesome software and function uh over form uh, but the advent of obviously the pixel 6 pro and the pixel 6. They prove that they can make good. Looking phone while keeping functionality a priority, and it seems like for the rest of the smartphone industry that seems like a big duh but for google, something that they’ve been reticent for some reason to do so.
All that aside, that’s pixel six. What do we know about? What’S coming well, we know that google is developing android 12 l uh for larger displays, like tablets and foldables. This means that the company knows that foldables are here to stay and they’re, going to make sure that their software can support the movement better and provide and improve software experiments so android, 12 and i’ll expect it to release early 2022-ish, laying the groundwork for future foldables.
On the android platform, they’re also going to give us some hope, though, maybe we’ll see that pixel fold emerge as a flagship device for that eventually, oh there’s still no acknowledgement of it from google or we’re going to get our hands on it. The sad news on that front, though, received recently, comes from the dscc confirming with supply chain sources that google has decided to not bring pixelfold to markets um, as was supposed to be in the first half of 22. Sources have indicated that google believes a product wouldn’t be as competitive as it needs to be so just a moment of silence for that uh.
This does tell us, though, that google’s foldable is likely delayed, but i don’t believe i’m refusing to believe. I am not going to believe that it’s gone for good uh. Even if google decides not to launch a pixel fold anytime soon we could see android tablets and other foldables on the platform. Uh get some much needed, tlc with android 12l. So i’m going to opt for the opinion that it’s delayed and coming later that we expect let’s say into 2022.. I just literally made that up out of my head uh, but i’m just hopeful i’d love to see google’s version of foldables and what you can do with either two screens or a bendable display will be really awesome. We’Ve seen samsung oppo, huawei and others sort of take their approach on foldables and have to make their own tweaks to software. But having google make those tweaks built into android 12l, it could be pretty so some things we do know we’re doing that.
Google is working on a new version of the tensor chip code name, and this is the best code name. I’Ve ever heard uh cloud ripper right. That’S not just me that sounds awesome. The code name is actually discovered inside of the android kernel. So this is the chip that could be what google decides to use in our coin. Pixel fold uh at the very least it’ll be in next year’s pixel, seven uh, the six and six pro have stacked up pretty well uh, with google’s first foray into their own hardware with a snapdragon 888 and i was safe to assume.
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That’S currently on the six and google. In all, fairness has improved its accuracy with recent update um. At the same time, i think moving away from the optical reader to maybe ultrasonic system would really help the fingerprint scanner be less of a speed bump in everyday use, um, but one level higher. Do you remember the pixel 4 xl google had some of the best facial recognition, unlocking software that i’ve seen um project solely was pretty amazing in every way, mostly for the facial, unlocking stuff didn’t do much outside of that, i would love biometric redundancy to make its Way to the pixel 7 pixel fold and give us a choice: do you want that amazing facial unlock that’s secure and can be used to unlock apps and sort of give you your passwords, or do you want to use your fingerprint? Those would be two options that i would absolutely love to have in here and if you ultimately end up getting the pixel watch, that could be yet another way to identify who you are and unlock your.
This is a pretty simple ask and one i think everybody could go for, but uh make battery life better. I think we heard that the tensor chip was coming and would be paired with a 5 000 lamp power battery on the pixel six pro. My mouth was watering for the optimization potential and sort of the battery gain experience, but the six and six pro were fine. They left a lot to be desired in the battery department, so google – i don’t know if you’re watching this or somebody’s watching this please make battery life better. Let us be blown away by battery life. I don’t care.
If you make it a bit thicker, it could be a super chunky boy just give us amazing battery life, please. So the camera on the pixel 6 is arguably like the marquee feature of any uh pixel phone and google offered some really awesome features this generation. I think my favorites magic eraser, of course, action pan, but there’s still more that could be done and for years google did their best with essentially old pixel 2 hardware that just kept getting updated, and maybe it’s it’s me when the pixel 6 was released. I expected to be blown away since i finally upgraded the physical hardware in there. It seems like it’s still teetering the line between you know first and second place so still amongst the top of any phones out there. So after you’re collecting data, hopefully they can refine the software and then secure that top spot by what i’m expecting is going to be just a mile.
So, there’s a lot coming from google, even if we never see the pixel full, we have presumably a pixel 7 coming, probably a pixel 6a in varying sizes, and google again is working to find the identity of the pixel line. I hope what they found with the 6 and 6 pro is what they they stick with, and i hope that they decide to go all in on the pixel line like it appears. They’Re going to do, they’ve got amazing hardware. Amazing software they’ve got the war chests that compete with the biggest names in mobile out there. I think now they’re offering a really compelling competitive package if they can keep the price points right, whether they go foldable or not.
I think a lot of people in the next couple years are going to find pixel phones in their pockets. .