Well, Google’s annual “Pixel Fall” event has been forgotten, and we’ve clearly seen how amazing Google’s phones are. Google Pixel 6 The world thanks to the new Google Tensor processor and the range of professional cameras. But the upcoming Google Pixel Fold phone was absent from the audience, and we did not get any information from Google about it. But Google responds to us, reassures us, and tells us that there is no need to be confused, as perhaps the entire answer lies in the Android 12L system.
What is Android 12L?
Google announced at the end of last October the Android 12L system, and it seems that it has taken the letter “LIn reference to the word Large, which means “large” in Arabic, the company announced during a press release that the new version of Android 12, called Android 12L, targets more than 250 million Android devices with a large screen, ranging from ChromeOS tablets to even foldable phones.
Over the past year, Google has seen 100 million new activations of Android tablets, a growth of nearly 20% year-on-year, while ChromeOS has been able to achieve a growth rate of nearly 90%, and is the most basic operating system. Popular and widely used in the company’s laptops.
So, Google tried to improve the efficiency of Android 12 mainly for devices that have large screens to better fit them, with many improvements and a small set of new features.
Android 12L features a new two-column layout for widgets, such as notification shade, lock screen, and other home screen elements. While the bottom taskbar allows the ability to automatically switch to “favorite apps”. It’s easy to switch to split screen mode to boost productivity and handle better and more consistent multitasking.
What does Android 12L have to do with the Google Pixel Fold?
Let’s go back in time a bit to remember when was the last time Google introduced a system that was made only for tablets. It was around the year 2011, when the company released Android 3.0 Honeycomb for tablets, which is more than 10 years ago.
Despite the acceleration of increasing the sizes of phone screens larger and larger annually and steadily, we have not seen the launch of a system dedicated to tablets and foldable phones since then, so what prompted Google at this particular time to launch a new system dedicated to tablets and foldable devices?
Google said during the official statement that there are more than 250 million foldable Android devices, so Google has worked on modifying the Android platform to work better on these devices and preparing it to work on it by developers.
The company added in its speech, that it intends to launch the new and final version of the system early next year, which is the right time for the next wave of tablets and foldable devices that run Android 12 by default.
So, without a doubt, Google will not make an extra effort to launch a new version of foldable devices unless it actually intends to launch a new phone that has a large screen. Which coincides with the same leaks and rumors that confirm that the company is currently working on a new foldable phone called the Google Pixel Fold.
When will the Google Pixel Fold be announced?
In fact, this is a very difficult question, we are just making predictions and predictions, and one of the characteristics of Google is that it is completely secretive about its new devices. But when you think about it, there will be no better occasion than to launch a system dedicated to foldable phones with the launch of a dedicated device that works perfectly with this system.
For example, we’ve seen how the Google Pixel 6 phones benefited from Android 12, and the huge media hype caused by the new design language Google nicknamed the Material You style.
So, perhaps Google is planning the same thing with the Google Pixel Fold phone, and if the company intends to launch a foldable phone, it will certainly link it to Android 12L that it intends to launch next year.
Expectations point to March, especially since it is the only month in which all major brands stop releasing any major phones, except for OnePlus, but even if OnePlus announces a new phone this month, it will definitely not be a foldable phone.
