Ewan Spence is a BAFTA-nominated podcaster and reporter covering the fast-moving world of smartphones, tablets, laptops and mobile technology. He has covered the mobile space since the early days of the Psion and Palm PDAs; through the rise and fall of Nokia, Symbian, and Windows Phone; to the present-day dominance of Android and iOS.
After the launch of the Pixel 9 Fold Pro, I sat down with George Hwang and Jon Prowse to find out more about the idea of a foldable phone, lessons from the Pixel Fold , and the challenges presented by the design.
Yet it is all too easy to look at a foldable smartphone and think, “it’s just a normal phone with a hinge.” While that may be how many want to present the technology, that disguises the effort needed to work with two different form factors, two related but different displays, and the exacting needs to pack everything into a practical shell.
“If we think about the Pixel Fold to the Pixel 9 Pro Fold… the Pixel Fold was thi but we could go a lot thinner. A lot of what we did with this product is to push further down that line. And we had already established with the Pixel Fold pushing further into what we can possibly do, how we can eke out that extra space."
"Folded, it looks like the smaller Pixel 9 Pro, so you can get to what you want to do. Whether that be sending a quick text message, writing a short email, or maybe changing the song on Spotify, those things actually should be uninhibited. And then, when you really want to, you unfold it and have largest display of any foldable.
Yet the new display size on the outside of the device is also reflected on the inside. The ability to multitask with two windows, both of which are the same size as a “regular” smartphone screen offers a new interface that feels like an old favourite. The use of a split screen multitasking, rather than a larger tablet-like screen was a surprising feature of user feedback.
“We're already thinking about what what we can do, what kind of custom modules can we get into a very unique form factor. We really need to think within different constraints than a normal phone does. We want to take our great hardware we put in there and then take it to the next level.
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