The Google Pixel Fold 2 could have a truly tablet-sized screen

Bigger screens inside and out

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The promise of book-style foldable phones is to give you a tablet-sized screen that you can fold down to a normal phone-sized footprint, and theGoogle Pixel Fold 2could come closer to delivering on that promise than most of thebest foldable phones.

According toRoss Young– a leaker with a good track record for screen details – posting on X, theGooglePixel Fold 2 will have an 8.02-inch foldable screen and a 6.29-inch cover screen.

For comparison, the originalGoogle Pixel Foldhas a 7.6-inch foldable screen and a 5.8-inch cover display, so that would make both screens on the Pixel Fold 2 significantly bigger. It would also bring the foldable screen more in line with a tablet, when you consider that theiPad mini (2021)– which is the latest model – is only a little bigger at 8.3 inches.

The leaks on the Pixel Fold 2 don’t have the display sizes right. 8.02" for the foldable display and 6.29" for the cover display. Panel production starts in April! It is coming.March 12, 2024

Likewise, a 6.29-inch cover screen would make it more smartphone-sized than its predecessor when folded shut – it would actually be bigger than the 6.2-inchGoogle Pixel 8.

Those screen sizes would also have most other foldable phones beat, with theSamsung Galaxy Z Fold 5, for example, having a 7.6-inch foldable screen and a 6.2-inch cover display.

Young also claims that the Pixel Fold 2 has a wide cover screen, like the current model, and that panel production for the phone is starting in April, which hopefully means we won’t be waiting too long for the phone to launch.

A question of bezels

This is all good news, with our only concern being that the bezels on the original Pixel Fold are quite large, so if Google doesn’t shrink them this year, those larger screen sizes might make the phone a little unwieldy.

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Still, if it does have larger screens, that could be a sign that the bezels will be smaller – and indeedleaked Pixel Fold 2 rendershave also suggested that the bezels have shrunk.

It’s unclear when we’ll find out for sure, as while the original Pixel Fold landed in May last year,one rumor points to an October launch for the Pixel Fold 2, alongside theGoogle Pixel 9.

It could be worth the wait though, because along with larger screens, other leaks point to a powerful chipset, a new design, and an extra camera, which could make it one of thebest folding smartphonesout there.

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James is a freelance phones, tablets and wearables writer and sub-editor at TechRadar. He has a love for everything ‘smart’, from watches to lights, and can often be found arguing with AI assistants or drowning in the latest apps. James also contributes to 3G.co.uk, 4G.co.uk and 5G.co.uk and has written for T3, Digital Camera World, Clarity Media and others, with work on the web, in print and on TV.

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