Behind the scenes Google is engaged on the following technology of Pixel telephones and to date it has not given any official particulars on the upcoming gadgets. However Google normally does a reasonably dangerous job of retaining issues a secret. The telephones is not going to be unveiled till later this 12 months (possible in October), even so, loads of particulars have leaked already.
There shall be two flagship fashions – smaller vanilla and bigger Professional. Like with earlier generations, the Professional could have a superior show and digicam. Apparently, the vanilla cellphone shall be smaller than its predecessor. Let’s take a look at these first.
Shows
The Pixel 8 show will lastly be bumped as much as 120Hz refresh charge after a number of generations of working at 90Hz. This doesn’t imply that Google is lastly going with an LTPO panel for the vanilla flagship, however leaked data means that there shall be new refresh modes, letting the cellphone select between 10, 30, 60Hz for energy saving.
The brand new show shall be barely smaller than earlier than at 6.17”, down from 6.3”. The decision will stay at FHD+ (20:9), on the plus aspect, Google has apparently chosen a brighter panel this 12 months – 1,400 nits typical brightness, up from 1,000 nits.
New show configurations for the Pixel 8 collection
The adjustments on the bigger Pixel 8 Professional show shall be much less impactful. It is going to be mainly the identical measurement as on the 2022 mannequin, nevertheless, its decision shall be lowered barely, which can deliver down the pixel density from 512ppi to 490ppi (that’s nonetheless greater than the vanilla Pixel, even accounting for its smaller diagonal). The minimal refresh charge will go all the way down to 5Hz from the 10Hz minimal on the 7 Professional. This panel ought to be brighter too.
Design
Google is sticking with the “visor” design for this technology. As you might have observed within the part above, the brand new technology will spherical off the corners of the show extra so than the 7-series.
Extra importantly, the Pixel 8 will measure 150.5 x 70.8 x 8.9mm (primarily based on CAD designs). That is noticeably smaller than the 155.6 x 73.2 x 8.7mm measurements of the Pixel 7 and makes it nearer in measurement to the Galaxy S23 (146.3 x 70.9 x 7.6mm) and smaller than the Pixel 7a (152 x 72.9 x 9mm).
Google Pixel 8 (speculative renders)
The Google Pixel 8 Professional will measure 162.6 x 76.5 x 8.7mm, successfully the identical because the 7 Professional (162.9 x 76.6 x 8.9mm).
Google Pixel 8 Professional (speculative renders)
By the way in which, hands-on photographs of an early Pixel 8 Professional prototype affirm the design seen within the renders above.
Cameras
Each fashions are getting a brand new sensor for his or her 50MP principal cameras – the ISOCELL GN2 is changing the GN1 discovered within the 7-series. This sensor is bigger (1/1.12” vs. 1/1.31”) and it has larger native pixels (1.4µm vs. 1.2µm). Binning all the way down to 12.5MP (4-to-1) offers it an efficient pixel measurement of two.8µm.
The sensor can go the opposite manner too, outputting 100MP photos, since every pixel has two photograph diodes as a substitute of 1. The GN1 was the identical, the principle distinction right here is that the GN2 has an improved AF technique referred to as Twin Pixel Professional. The 2 photodiodes on the GN1 cut up every pixel vertically, the GN2 has a diagonal cut up as a substitute in order that it may possibly detect part variations each vertically and horizontally.
The Pixel 8 Professional can be getting an upgraded extremely extensive with the Sony IMX787 sensor – 64MP 1/1.37” with 0.8µm pixels and 4-to-1 binning help. For comparability, the 7 Professional has a tiny 12MP 1/2.9” sensor with 1.25µm pixels.
The rear digicam setup for the 2 Pixel 8 telephones
As for the vanilla mannequin, that one is sticking with the 12MP IMX386 of its predecessor. The one improve right here shall be a wider lens (0.55x vs. 0.67x), however that can simply put further pressure on the low-res sensor. And no, the Pixel 8 isn’t getting a devoted zoom digicam.
The one on the Pixel 8 Professional will stay the identical with a 48MP GM5 sensor and a 5x periscope lens. A brand new 8×8 ToF depth sensor will help with autofocus. Apparently, there shall be an extra sensor on the Professional, an infrared thermometer (just below the LED flash). On this time and age with the ability to measure your physique temperature is a helpful function.
The Pixel 8 Professional could have a thermometer to measure physique temperature
Lastly, there shall be nothing new on the selfie cameras, they may simply use the 11MP Samsung 3J1 sensor from final 12 months.
Chipset
The Pixel flagships introduce new Tensor chipsets, that are in a while reused for the a-series. The Pixel 8 duo will deliver the third gen customized chip – as soon as once more coming from Samsung’s foundries and or not it’s labeled as “4nm” (4LPP node).
Extra importantly, it should soar two generations ahead from the G2 when it comes to {hardware}. The Tensor G3 will function a single Cortex-X3 at 3.0GHz, 4x A715 at 2.45GHz and 4x A510 at 2.15GHz. For comparability, the G2 had two prime cores, Cortex-X1 (2.85GHz), two A78 (2.35GHz) and 4 A55 (1.80GHz) cores.
We should always see a giant soar in efficiency and particularly power effectivity. That stated, there are already A720 cores out there and the Cortex-X4 is lurking across the nook, so the G3 will rapidly fall behind the competitors – simply not as far behind because the G2 was.
As for the GPU, the G3 will soar to an Immortalis-G715 with 10 cores at 890MHz. This GPU has {hardware} help for ray tracing and can be a few generations newer than the Mali-G710 MC10 of the G2 chip. It’s also possible to count on a quicker NPU for Google’s AI magic.
One potential improve for the small Pixel 8 is the additional RAM – 12GB, in line with some rumors (earlier generations had 8GB). It will deliver it on par with the Professional mannequin. The brand new Tensor G3 chipset also needs to help quicker UFS 4.0 storage.
Battery and charging
Not a lot is thought concerning the batteries in the intervening time. We expect that it’s a secure wager that the Pixel 8 Professional battery will stay on the similar capability (5,000mAh), however given the smaller dimensions of the Pixel 8, its capability will in all probability go down (from 4,355mAh).
The Pixel 8 appeared on WPC’s web site, which lists it as supporting solely 12W wi-fi charging. The Pixel 7 duo isn’t precisely quick, however it may possibly do 20/23W wirelessly so this can be a shock. We guess that the principle takeaway right here is that the 8-series is not going to help the brand new Qi2 commonplace.
Value
Once more, no data has leaked to date, however we don’t count on any surprises – the Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 had a base value of $600, the Pixel 6 Professional and Pixel 7 Professional had been $900 at launch. The 8-series ought to observe the identical pricing technique, particularly provided that the vanilla mannequin continues to be missing many of the Professional options (which justifies the $300 gulf within the pricing).
