Google's foldable Pixel expected 2022, with Pixel 5 main camera

(Pocket-lint) - Google is rumoured to beryllium moving connected a foldable Pixel smartphone and the astir caller study claims it volition beryllium arriving successful 2022 and diagnostic the Pixel 5's main camera.

According to 9to5Google, files associated with the latest merchandise of the Google Camera app suggest the foldable Pixel is codenamed Pipit - it was antecedently Passport - and it volition person the aforesaid 12.2-megapixel IMX363 sensor arsenic the Pixel 5, alternatively than the Pixel 6's GN1 sensor.

The tract besides said the folding smartphone would person a 12-megapixel IMX386 sensor that it assumes volition beryllium utilized arsenic an ultra wide-angle camera based connected the Pixel 6's design, and the codification suggests it mightiness lone beryllium utilized erstwhile the instrumentality is folded.

There is besides said to beryllium 2 8-megapixel IMX355 sensors connected board, 1 of which is tagged arsenic "inner" and the different arsenic "outer". It's thought the aforesaid selfie camera volition beryllium utilized connected the beforehand and inside, offering the aforesaid prime beforehand shots whether the instrumentality is unfastened oregon closed.

It's not wide if an under-display camera like the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 volition beryllium utilized oregon a punch spread camera.

Nothing is authoritative regarding the foldable Pixel arsenic yet, though you tin read each the rumours surrounding the device successful our abstracted circular up feature. 

Writing by Britta O'Boyle. Originally published connected 5 November 2021.