Leaked file shows Pixel 5a is coming next year, a foldable phone is in the works

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Peter 06 August 2020Google Android Rumors

An internal file escaped from Google’s hold close and it recommendations at a probable folding Pixel. The report info every smartphone because the Pixel 2 and functions 4 yet to be announced devices: Barbette, Raven, Oriole and Passport.

Barbette is probably the rumored Pixel 5a - Google has to this point formally showed handiest the Pixel five 5G and 4a 5G. The Raven and Oriole have to be the following generation Pixel 6 duo. Note that Google phones generally have code names primarily based on fish species, but this file uses other code names, making it difficult to crack.

This leaves the Passport, which is explicitly defined as a foldable. It and the 2 Pixel 6 models are scheduled to release within the ultimate three months of next yr, so we’re in for quite a wait.

A patent drawing of a foldable Google phone from 2019A patent drawing of a foldable Google phone from 2019

It’s no longer clear which (if any) of those is the Pixel cellphone a good way to allegedly have a 6.67” a hundred and twenty Hz display.

Google didn’t screen whilst the the Pixel five 5G and 4a 5G will become available, but this report claims that they may arrive in October (the business enterprise did say that the Pixel 4a 5G will cost $500, $one hundred fifty greater than the vanilla 4a).

The Pixel 5a will observe with a release set for Q2 of 2021. It’s described as a “lower stop mid yr device”.