Dave2D posted a hands-on with an alleged Pixel Fold mockup - The Verge

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The Pixel Fold isn’t authoritative yet, but it mightiness arsenic good be. Last period we got renders. Now the dude Dave2D got an alleged dummy exemplary of the Pixel foldable and extrapolated a clump of features retired of the mostly featureless plastic.

Some highlights:

  • Based connected the hinge, the interior surface should person have a gentler halfway crease than the Samsung Z Fold 4.
  • The 7.67-inch interior surface has amazingly heavy bezels — astir 5mm, successful Dave’s estimation — perchance to chopped costs and debar having a camera cutout.
  • The 5.79-inch outer surface is simply a small shorter and wider than the Z Fold 4, and does look to person a selfie cam cutout.
  • There are talker grills apical and bottom.

Closeup of a manus  holding a Pixel Fold mockup, with a surface  superimposed. It reads 5.79” and 1080 x 2100

The Pixel Fold’s (alleged!) 5.79-inch outer surface is shorter but wider than the 1 connected the Samsung Z Fold 4.

Dave2D

Interior of the Pixel Fold dummy portion   with a 7.67” surface  overlaid.

The dummy phone’s interior bezels are ... dummy thicc. (This isn’t a existent screen; it’s an representation overlaid onto the integrative model)

Dave2D

The grey integrative exemplary mostly matches the leaked renders we saw successful December, down to the elephantine camera island, hinge design, and heavy bezels, truthful if it’s a fake, astatine slightest we’re getting consistent fakes.

Dave didn’t uncover his source, but dimensionally close blanks similar these are usually sent to lawsuit manufacturers successful beforehand of the instrumentality motorboat truthful they tin person accessories acceptable to go. That timing tracks with the December leak, which suggested an official uncover astatine Google I/O successful May, though aboriginal leaks person suggested a autumn launch.

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