Google cancels foldable phone that wasn’t ‘good enough’

The newspaper, which confirmed the rumors that had been getting stronger for a while, Google has announced plans to launch two foldable phones this year. However, the strategy was revised and only one version of the Pixel Fold reached the market after it was presented in its last 10 during Google I/O 2023.

Details about the second model’s cancellation were commented on by the search giant’s head of design, Ivy Ross, in the latest episode of the official podcast. Made by Google, available this Monday (29). According to him, the smartphone was under development, but apparently something was not good with it.

“I’m really proud of the team because there was another foldable model where we had the discipline and could say ‘no, it’s still not good enough’ and wait until we really felt we could do something that was good enough or better than what already existed,” explained the employee.

Ross did not provide further information on next steps regarding this. Google’s second foldable phone. In this way, it is not known whether the project is permanently canceled or there is a possibility of a launch that will increase the Pixel Fold line in the future.

Pixel Rotation?

There is also a thread where the representative of the Mountain View giant did not comment on what the canceled variant of the project will look like. Despite, Previous speculations suggested that big tech had developed a folding type folding phone.following the shell style.

so called pixel flip As the South Korean brand recently announced, it would come to compete with the Galaxy Z Flip 4, which represents 60% of Samsung’s folding sales in Europe, surpassing the sales figures of the Z Fold 4.