Google is readying its subsequent set of {hardware} bulletins, and has already confirmed that the Pixel 10 sequence is launching subsequent month. We even know what one of many telephones seems to be like, due to the official picture up above.
However past the few tidbits Google has shared formally, there’s an terrible lot extra we assume we all know in regards to the Pixel 10 line due to leaks, from which telephones are arriving — doubtless the ten, 10 Professional, 10 Professional XL, and 10 Professional Fold — to digicam modifications, chipset upgrades, and possibly even some lengthy overdue Qi2 assist.
Let’s begin with some stone-cold details. We all know that the Pixel 10 line shall be introduced at a Made by Google occasion in New York on August twentieth, the place the corporate will exhibit “the newest on our Pixel telephones, watches, buds, and extra.”
We additionally know that one of many telephones within the lineup will seem like the picture above, together with that blue-gray end. Coloration apart, that cellphone seems to be virtually equivalent to the Pixel 9 Professional, proper right down to the flash and temperature sensor contained in the digicam bar, confirming that Google isn’t altering its design language.
That’s all Google has mentioned for sure, however right here’s every part else we’re anticipating to see on the launch subsequent month.
The most important shock this yr seems to be a transfer to improve the bottom Pixel 10 to a triple rear digicam, together with a telephoto lens for the primary time, bringing it consistent with the three Professional fashions.
However earlier than you get too excited, know that there are some downsides. To offset the added value — and maybe to offer you a motive to contemplate the improve to the Professional — Google will reportedly downgrade the Pixel 10’s different cameras.
Android Authority studies that Google is utilizing smaller sensors for the Pixel 10’s important digicam and ultrawide than the Pixel 9 had, that means the cameras will seize much less mild. The truth is, it’s going to apparently use the identical sensors it did on the Pixel 9A. That signifies that until Google has made enhancements elsewhere, the Pixel 10’s important and ultrawide cameras shall be worse than on the 9, however offset by the addition of the telephoto lens. A minimum of the selfie digicam ought to stay unchanged.
It additionally means the triple cameras on the ten Professional and 10 Professional XL — which can apparently be unchanged from the 9 Professional fashions — shall be superior to the ten throughout the board. The ten Professional Fold digicam shall be corresponding to the ten’s, utilizing the identical sensors for its important and telephoto shooters, and equally specced ones for the selfie and ultrawide. That represents a really slight improve to the principle digicam within the Fold, however the base 10 is the one mannequin getting an actual digicam overhaul.
Google can also be making surprising choices in regards to the telephones’ colours, going by allegedly official renders leaked by Android Headlines.
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On the bottom Pixel 10 meaning brighter colours than ever (and affirmation of that triple digicam). The positioning studies that the cellphone will are available “Obsidian,” Google’s commonplace black end, together with a vibrant blue referred to as “Indigo,” a paler shade referred to as “Frost,” and an virtually fluorescent inexperienced dubbed “Limoncello.”
In contrast, the Professional fashions look muted. The ten Professional and 10 Professional XL are available the identical “Obsidian” black, plus the returning “Porcelain” white, a comfortable inexperienced referred to as “Jade,” and a gray-blue referred to as “Moonstone.” You would possibly acknowledge that shade from Google’s official picture up on the prime.
Stranger are the colours for the ten Professional Fold. Android Headlines studies that it solely is available in two variants, however in contrast to final yr these aren’t black and white. As a substitute, the Fold will apparently solely be out there in “Moonstone” and “Jade,” making it the uncommon cellphone to not launch in black in any respect.
For extra affirmation of these colours, one other leaked picture from the Play Retailer exhibits the total Pixel 10 lineup collectively, with the three Professional fashions all in “Moonstone” and the common 10 in “Indigo.”
This week the Wi-fi Energy Consortium introduced Qi2 25W, a sooner model of the magnetic wi-fi charging commonplace, and promised assist from “main Android smartphones.” We expect meaning the Pixel 10 line.
Google hasn’t supported Qi2 on its earlier Pixels, however there are two good causes to assume that may be about to alter. The primary is the dimensions of the brand new handsets. Android Headlines claims to have the official dimensions and weights of all 4 telephones, and every is heavier than the earlier technology, and all however the XL are thicker too.
There are just a few attainable explanations. One is that the telephones will merely have greater batteries, which several reports have advised. However Google may be making house for the magnets required to allow Qi2 assist.
The second motive to anticipate Qi2 is that Android Authority reported in June that Google is getting ready an ecosystem of magnetic Qi2 equipment underneath the “Pixelsnap” model, together with two chargers and a stand.
The danger is that as an alternative of full Qi2 assist, the Pixel 10 telephones are solely Qi2 Prepared. That’s the certification current Samsung flagships have, for telephones that assist Qi2 charging however don’t comprise the magnets, requiring a magnetic case for full performance.
With one other Android Headlines report claiming that Google’s Pixel 10 instances will embody magnets, some have taken that to imply Google’s telephones received’t be magnetic themselves, however don’t be so positive — Apple’s MagSafe iPhone instances embody their very own magnets to complement those within the telephones, and Google could possibly be doing the identical right here.
Boring, I do know — each cellphone, yearly, has a chipset improve. However we predict extra from Google this time round.
Android Authority has repeatedly reported that for the brand new Tensor G5 chip Google is transferring manufacturing from Samsung to TSMC, utilizing the identical 3nm N3E course of Apple makes use of for the iPhone 16 Professional’s A18 Professional chip. Along with some tweaks to the core format, that’s anticipated to supply a major enhance in processing energy, closing the hole between Pixels and the competitors.
Android Authority reports that Google is growing a number of new AI imaging options, although some could also be for subsequent yr’s Pixel 11. “Communicate-to-Tweak” ought to be a voice-based picture modifying device, whereas “Sketch-to-Picture” would be the Pixel model of a function already seen on Samsung telephones.
The identical website has separately reported that the Pixel 10 can have a brand new digital assistant referred to as “Pixel Sense,” as soon as rumored to be referred to as “Pixie.” Pixel Sense will use info from different Google apps to finish duties throughout your cellphone, make predictive options that can assist you earlier than you ask, and higher study your tastes from all that knowledge. Impressively, that can all be processed on-device.
It feels like a extra highly effective model of the multimodal actions Google added to Gemini in January, however going by the identify it’s going to stay a Pixel unique.
These AI options will arrive alongside Android updates we’ve identified about since Google I/O, like the massive Materials 3 Expressive redesign and a desktop mode primarily based on Samsung’s DeX.