Google’s subsequent flagship has leaked, and a launch date has been set. The Pixel 8 will arrive lower than a month after Apple plans to launch the iPhone 15. Smartphone fall is coming!
Google is internet hosting an in-person Pixel launch occasion on Oct. 4 in New York Metropolis. The joy begins at 7 A.M. PT / 10 A.M. ET, and we’ll be on the bottom to introduce you to the brand new Pixel household of units. These occasions are usually livestreamed to most of the people, so in the event you can’t be there in individual, you’ll be able to watch on YouTube.
We count on Google will announce the environment friendly Pixel 8 and the well-equipped Pixel 8 Professional. We’re additionally anticipating a thinner second-gen Pixel Watch smartwatch to match. However we’re nonetheless determining what this yr’s launch is about and what marquee options Google will deliver to its ecosystem.
What’s the take care of the Pixel 8?
With each iteration of a Pixel machine, Google normally has a story round distinctive options and the way new skills and tips outrank the competitors. We’re nonetheless making an attempt to determine the story with the Pixel 8 and eight Professional.
What we all know to date—and what has been confirmed primarily by Google’s leaked advertising supplies—is that the Pixel 8/8 Professional could have markedly rounder corners, which may make it narrower and simpler to grip. We all know the digital camera bar has been prolonged alongside the bottom to incorporate the Pixel 8 Professional’s third lens and {that a} shiny coloration and darkish colorway can be out there, since that’s what we’ve seen circulating by means of the rumor mill. And we all know the curved show across the edges is probably going going bye-bye—it means instances will match flush, and also you gained’t get as a lot mud throughout the edges as on the Pixel 6 and Pixel 7.
The opposite elements of the Pixel 8’s design that we’re nonetheless making an attempt to determine is whether or not there can be a bodily SIM slot or if it’s ditching it to point out off to the iPhone. Google additionally has but to disclose the particular coloration. Will it’s a inexperienced motif like with the Pixel 7/7 Professional? Or will it’s an identical pair of blue hues like this yr’s Pixel 7a?
The Pixel 8’s story appears like it will likely be a marked enchancment on the options it’s already identified for. The telephone’s well-known Night time Sight capacity will seemingly be prolonged to video recordings so you’ll be able to shoot night time footage with out worrying about further lighting. The Pixel 8 Professional, which could have a 3rd digital camera lens, may additionally undertake a sharper, higher-resolution ultra-wide-angle lens for archive-worthy panorama pictures.
The Pixel 8 and eight Professional may very well be Android’s first foray into satellite tv for pc connectivity akin to Apple’s Emergency SOS by way of satellite tv for pc. The story on Twitter is that Google is partnering with Garmin for its current Iridium satellite tv for pc community, which Qualcomm can even hook up with when it rolls out satellite tv for pc connectivity to different Android units later this yr. We’re nonetheless determining in the event you’ll should pay further for that connectivity on each Google and different Android telephones. We’ll know quickly sufficient.
What about what’s contained in the Pixel 8?
This yr’s Pixel 8/8 Professional will seemingly introduce Google’s third-gen Tensor G3 processor. Within the Twitter rumor mill, it’s codenamed Zuma, and that very same supply is suggesting the chipset is predicated on Samsung’s 3nm node, which ought to show to be as highly effective and environment friendly as Apple’s Bionic silicon.
The Pixel 8/8 Professional will seemingly have the identical pairing of RAM, although we’d like to see 12GB of reminiscence within the small Pixel 8 and the bigger Pixel 8 Professional because the Pixel 7a—the mid-range sequence—comes customary with 8GB.
The under-display fingerprint sensor isn’t leaving the Pixel sequence. Nonetheless, Google would possibly improve to an ultrasonic sensor, which needs to be sooner than its present optical one. And talking of sensors, different sources counsel a temperature sensor can even be on the machine.
Pixel Watch 2, too
Google’s first-gen Pixel Watch was high-quality, however the Pixel Watch 2 will hopefully enhance on the weather its predecessor was lacking. Particularly, the Pixel Watch 2 wants higher battery life to surpass the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6. Earlier within the yr, 9to5Google spoke to sources alleging that switching from Google’s CPU to a Snapdragon chip would assist “increase” the battery.
Google plans to make Fitbit a major a part of the Pixel Watch 2’s introduction, just a little greater than it did with the first-gen. There can be precise sensors within the Watch 2 to accommodate the Fitbit app’s wellness-tracking experience. There may very well be an electrodermal exercise (cEDA) sensor for monitoring stress ranges all through the day by measuring sweat ranges on the pores and skin’s floor. We’re additionally hoping for a pores and skin temperature sensor, which Samsung has provided for cycle and sleep monitoring because the Galaxy Watch 5.
With the Pixel Watch 2 launch, we’ll additionally see this Fitbit transform floating round for some time. The one factor that Google has that Samsung doesn’t is a well being and wellness model that’s already well-established. Samsung Well being actually tries, but it surely takes a little bit of finagling earlier than it really works with different ecosystems.
We’ll uncover all this as soon as Google formally declares every thing on Oct. 4. Keep tuned!
