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Google Pixel Fold: finally, a foldable that looks just like a smartphone

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Two-minute preview I always thought that the next major foldable phone, the one that would turn heads away from Samsung's valiant efforts to make folding devices a thing, would be from Apple. It's not, but Google Pixel Fold does at least have the potential to make the full-sized foldable smartphone as popular as your most expensive iPhone.  Google is possibly turning heads from other foldable challengers by making the folded phone wider than its nearest competitor, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 , giving it an expansive, 5.8-inch outer screen. That might sound smaller than the 6.2-inch Galaxy Z fold 4 outside screen, but that's the diagonal measurement. Measured width-wise, the Pixel fold is almost a half-inch wider. It does give the device a more traditional, if pint-sized, smartphone feel. Also adding to Google Pixel Fold's normcore feel is the surprising thinness of the device. Folded, it's 12.1mm. Unfolded, it's a svelte 5.8mm. The Galaxy Z Fold 4 is, by c...