Google's folding Pipit phone reportedly passes though Geekbench, leaving a trail of specs to consider

(Pocket-lint) - The rumours of a folding Pixel phone from Google were awash successful 2021, but it didn't travel to pass. Instead, rumours of a folding instrumentality - codenamed Pipit - person rolled into 2022.

A study said to travel from Geekbench for the Pipit instrumentality appears to uncover immoderate absorbing details astir the imaginable aboriginal phone.

The large happening present is that it constituent towards this instrumentality utilizing Google Tensor, arsenic recovered successful the Pixel 6 models. That would marque cleanable sense, arsenic Google has enactment its effort into processing its ain hardware, truthful it's apt to usage that.

There's said to beryllium 12GB RAM, which seems similar a lot, but it's the aforesaid arsenic the Pixel 6 Pro, which possibly suggests wherever Google wants this telephone to beryllium performance-wise.

Of course, 1 Geekbench listing does not a confirmation make. We've seen immoderate fig of devices look connected these sorts of benchmarking services that are improvement devices, oregon prototypes, and galore that ne'er spot the airy of day.

It's besides perfectly feasible that it's a fake too.

Whatever the reality, the determination for Google volition beryllium whether it should motorboat a folding telephone to market. Given that Android improvement connected folding phones volition request a home, we wouldn't beryllium amazed if this was an engineering instrumentality alternatively than thing for consumers.

Time volition tell, however, and with much and much manufacturers looking to caller signifier factors similar folding phones, Google whitethorn partition privation to support successful with the pack.

Given Google's emblematic motorboat cycles, we wouldn't expect to perceive thing factual until either the extremity of February erstwhile Mobile World Congress 2022 is scheduled to instrumentality place. Google often has a beingness astatine the amusement and has made announcements determination before.

That league whitethorn endure cancellations conscionable arsenic we saw astatine CES 2022 and a much apt lawsuit to showcase thing caller would beryllium Google I/O, apt to beryllium successful May 2022.

Writing by Chris Hall. Originally published connected 7 January 2022.