A new Google foldable smartphone codenamed “Pipit” has been spotted on the GeekBench, which has an octa-core processor. The company is reportedly working on a foldable smartphone that may feature its in-house tensor SoC under the hood and lists that it may come with 12GB of RAM. The smartphone is listed on Geekbench to run on Android 12. Google, which previously said it was working on launching a Pixel Fold smartphone last year, has not yet officially released details of the work of a foldable handset.
A list of new Google smartphones called Pipit was seen on GeekBench by MySmartPrice today. Gadget 360 has been able to independently verify the list. According to the list, the Google smartphone is equipped with an octa-core processor with two performance cores at 2.8GHz, two cores at 2.25GHz and four efficiency cores at 1.8GHz. The handset may feature the company’s recently launched Google Tensor SoC from the Google Pixel 6 series, as the list also mentions the presence of a Mali G78 GPU.
The list of Google Pipit smartphones on GeekBench also states that the device has 12GB of RAM. The handset has a single-core score of 4,811 points and a multi-core score of 11,349 points in the Geekbench 4 list. By comparison, the latest Google Pixel 6 benchmark in Geekbench 4 lists a single-core score of 4,758 points and a multi-core score of 11,038 points. Gadgets 360 Google Pipit did not find a Geekbench 5 score for the smartphone.
Details of the company’s rumored foldable device were discovered by 9to5Google in Google Camera APK in November 2021. According to the release, a Pixel smartphone codenamed Pipit has been spotted with the old 12.2-megapixel IMX363 camera sensor (in the Pixel 6 series instead of the new GN1 users) that was used in the company’s Pixel 3 smartphone. Pipit could be a foldable smartphone made by the company, as the report mentions the word “folded” in the camera app. As mentioned earlier, Google has not yet announced any plans for an upcoming foldable smartphone.