Google Pixel Fold 2: Major Redesign Revealed in Leaked Prototype Image | – Times of India

Google has started development on its second-generation foldable phone, aka Pixel Fold 2, and the first purported images of the Pixel Fold 2 have appeared on the internet, revealing a major redesign. Here’s what we know about Google’s next foldable phone.
An unnamed person, who also shared the hardware details of the upcoming Google foldable phone, has now shared an image of the first prototype with the Android Authority, revealing the phone’s design and there are some major changes compared to the first-gen Pixel Fold.
The source said that Google’s upcoming foldable phone has a narrower cover screen and an inner screen that is closer to a square aspect ratio. The device’s overall form factor might be similar to the OnePlus Open, which has screens that are between the Pixel Fold and Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 in size.

The Pixel Fold 2 also appears to have a new camera bump design, featuring a separate camera island with four sensors, which could include a primary wide-angle lens, a secondary ultra wide-angle lens, a tertiary periscopic telephoto lens, and an unknown lens. The fourth sensor’s functionality is unclear. The camera island also has an LED flash and microphone. This design is a significant departure from the visor-like camera bar that we have seen on the last few Pixel phones.
Furthermore, the Pixel Fold 2 seems to have design similarities with the upcoming Pixel 9 series. According to the report, the Pixel Fold 2 has a rounded inner and outer display and an aluminium frame. The inner screen now has a display cutout in the top right corner for the camera. The crease is still noticeable, but the phone is thin, the source said.
An earlier report has stated that Google has been testing the Pixel Fold 2 internally for several months. Prototypes of the second-generation device have been tested with the Tensor G3 chip, which also powers the Pixel 8 phones. However, sources suggest that Google has begun testing the Tensor G4 chip for the Pixel Fold 2, which may feature Arm Cortex-X4, Cortex-A78, and Cortex-A55 cores. The Pixel Fold 2 prototypes could also upgrade the storage, packing 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 256GB of UFS 4.0 storage.
The prototype model in question is currently in the EVT (Engineering Validation Test) stage, which implies that it is still in the early testing phase. Based on this, it is uncertain whether the Pixel Fold 2 will be launched at the upcoming I/O event in May, as the first-generation model was introduced there earlier. However, it may debut later in the year, sometime in October, alongside the Pixel 9 series.