Given Google’s excellent record with cameras on Pixels, a lot is riding on the Pixel Fold’s cameras. In terms of hardware, it doesn’t disappoint. The device features three cameras at the rear, including a 48MP primary camera with OIS mated to a lens with f/1.7 aperture, a secondary camera with a 10.8MP sensor and 121-degree ultrawide lens, and a 10.8MP sensor that acts as a dedicated telephoto camera with support for 5x optical zoom and 20X Super Res Zoom.
The Pixel Fold also gets front-facing cameras for the external and internal displays. While the inner camera uses an 8MP sensor, the external camera gets a 9.5MP sensor mated to an f/2.2 lens.
In comparison, the Galaxy Z Fold 4 has cameras consisting of a 50MP, f/1.8 primary camera with PDAF and OIS, a 10MP telephoto camera that supports 3x optical zoom with OIS and PDAF support, and a 12MP ultrawide sensor with f/2.2 aperture. The Fold 4’s Achilles heel is the 4MP under-display camera housed within the folding display. On the other hand, the external front-facing camera uses a 10MP sensor mated to an f/2.2 lens.
While the camera hardware on these devices seems evenly matched, given Google’s history with Pixel’s computational photography, there is a good chance that the Pixel Fold may blow Samsung out of the water. We will reserve a final judgment post a detailed review of the Pixel Fold.
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