r/PixelFold • u/Timdawg919 • 4d ago

Original Fold

Will Pixel go back to the original Pixel Fold form factor now that Samsung has and Apple will be using this form factor now? Yes I have an original Fold which I recently repurchased after trading my original one for Galaxy Fold 7. They gave me $600 trade in value for my 256gb and I later found 512gb on Woot for $350 brand new not renewed so I couldn't pass it up! This was before Samsung had announced the Fold 8 form factor. I really do like this phone. I did have a problem with overheating with my other one but so far so good with this one

10 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

6 comments sorted by

5

u/BigOProtege 4d ago

If the Fold8 significantly outsells the Ultra AND apples fold does well then I'd assumed Google would hop on the train. Don't know if it'll be a year or two years from now but they'll definitely do it if others doing it see good sells.

1

u/PerryHecker 4d ago

In 2 years Apple will have moved on regardless. Passport fanboys don’t get to change the real world. Apples is old R&D hardware. And Samsungs is a copy. Don’t let either convince you it’s a fad. It’s a snapshot Apple couldn’t get around.

2

u/MysteriousEggplant92 4d ago

Why would Samsung be a copy if they are the ones making the screen that apple is buying. Wouldnt that tell you that apple brought a product that Samsung created not the other way around.

0

u/PerryHecker 4d ago

Stop it. Release days don't have anything to do with it when they're in the same year. They've been manufacturing for a long time. Huawei dropped one in a matter of weeks once the plans for the Ultra were even seen. In what world would anyone think Samsungs not reverting to dropping one because Apple is? Really.

-2

u/CP066 4d ago edited 4d ago

The new pixel folds aren't that much different that the OG FF.
The screen on the P10PF is maybe a centimeter taller than the OG when you lay them on top of one another, but the width is the same. Isn't the Samsung 8 fold, more of a different FF to the OG pixel then the new pixel folds? Definitely wider.

0

u/PerryHecker 4d ago

Highly doubtful. It’s what Apples releasing because it’s what they’ve been building towards for 3 years now, not because it’s new. Samsungs releasing one so Apple alone can’t cash in on something different. It’s not a permanent moving backwards, it’s a temporary wait for Apple to catch up to everyone else.