Renders of the rumored Pixel 7 Pro.
Steve Hemmerstoffer (@OnLeaks) and Smartprix
Year after 12 months, Google releases its flagship Pixel telephones within the fall, so it is secure to imagine we’re nonetheless a number of months out from a Pixel 7 launch. But rumors are already heating up — together with an October launch date and up to date hypothesis that the Pixel 7’s show will probably be a bit smaller than its predecessor’s.
Google took a daring new strategy with its flagship Pixel 6 sequence and it appears to have paid off, incomes the corporate essential reward and business success, a minimum of for the comparatively small batch of telephones it did launch. The Pixel 6 sequence ushered in a brand new period for Google’s sagging smartphone enterprise, helped by this new design. Out went final 12 months’s midrange processor. In got here the corporate’s years-in-the-making Tensor chip. Out went the generic, tried-and-tested {hardware} design. In got here a press release system with a signature digicam bar working throughout the width of the chassis. CNET’s Andrew Lanxon, who reviewed the higher-end Pixel 6 Pro, known as it a real iPhone competitor. (Read our full critiques of the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro.)
For the Pixel 7 (if that is what Google decides to call it), the search big will probably take an identical strategy, drawing on its Tensor chip to reinforce the system’s machine-learning options. To be clear, there are few credible rumors to lean on to assist us get a greater sense of what Google plans to do with the Pixel 7 (although there have been rumors a couple of Pixel Watch and the anticipated Pixel 6A). But that will not cease us from making an attempt to piece collectively what could be in retailer. We’d recommend bookmarking this web page since this at the moment brief checklist will develop: We’ll replace it every time we hear of any credible rumors.
Release date: Pixel 7 will probably launch in October
Google’s flagship handsets have launched in October for years, ever for the reason that first-gen Pixel was unveiled to the world. (Well, all of them aside from the Pixel 5, which was unveiled on the finish of September.) Barring any worsening provide chain points and different macro elements, it is in all probability a secure guess that the Pixel 7 will obtain an official launch in October. Leaker Jon Prosser tweeted on Thursday that the Pixel 7 and seven Pro will certainly launch that month alongside a Pixel Watch.
Processor: Pixel 7 could run on second-gen Tensor chip
Google is seemingly within the technique of growing a next-gen Tensor chip for the upcoming Pixel handset. This would not come as a lot of a shock to Pixel watchers contemplating Google endeavored to develop an in-house chipset within the first place — a undertaking that’s sometimes advanced and dear. This element was first found when an inside Google developer board known as Cloudripper was added to apps on the Pixel 6, in line with 9to5Google.
Specs: Pixel 7 might characteristic a punch-hole entrance digicam
Two leaks from dependable tipster Steve Hemmerstoffer (recognized on Twitter as @OnLeaks) have given us some perception into what the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro might appear to be. Hemmerstoffer tweeted in February that he despatched renders of the rumored two telephones to Indian tech website Smartprix and automotive overview website CARHP respectively.
Rumored renders of the Pixel 7.
Steve Hemmerstoffer (@OnLeaks) and CARHP
The Pixel 7 leak says the flagship could have a show between 6.2 and 6.4 inches, a tad larger than the 6.1-inch Samsung Galaxy S22 and the rumored show measurement for the anticipated iPhone 14. It reveals two 50-megapixel again cameras and a punch-hole entrance digicam, a space-maximizing characteristic the place the selfie cam is embedded throughout the display as a substitute of resting above it.
The Pixel 7 Pro renders additionally present a punch-hole entrance digicam however three again cameras as a substitute of two. The leak says the cellphone could have a curved OLED show round 6.8 inches, just like the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and its S21 predecessor.
Read extra: Pixel 7 Pro Leak Shows Punch-Hole Camera, S22 Ultra-Like Display
More not too long ago, show analyst Ross Young suggests the Pixel 7 will probably be barely smaller than the Pixel 6, having a 6.3-inch show in comparison with the 6’s 6.4 inches. The Pixel 7 Pro, nevertheless, is claimed to make use of the identical 6.7-inch display because the Pixel 6 Pro.
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