We’ve reached the end of January and we haven’t heard a peep about the Google Pixel Fold 2. I think that’s good news for Fold fans.
We’re still in January and we’ve already seen leaked renders of the upcoming Google Pixel 9 and 9 Pro, which are very likely to launch in October, in nine months. We’ve also gotten several glimpses of the Pixel 8a, which should come around May-June. But nothing about the Pixel Fold 2. What gives?
Did Google suddenly figure out how to keep a phone under wraps for once? Or is Google not making a Pixel Fold 2 at all? I think it’s neither of these and, actually, I think the lack of Pixel Fold 2 news is actually good news. Hear me out.
Last year, the Google Pixel Fold had already been leaked a million times by January. We knew what it looked like, we knew many of its specs, and we were expecting it to launch around Google I/O 2023. Most of those details turned out to be true, with the only difference being that the phone was announced in May, but only became available at the end of June.
And therein lies the problem. The Pixel Fold, Google’s top-of-the-line $1,799 foldable phone launched only three months before the Pixel 8 series, but with cameras and specs similar to the Pixel 7 Pro — a nine-month-old phone.
