Pixel 7 Series: What We Know About Google’s Upcoming Phones – Early in October will see the larger unveiling of the Pixel 7.
The Google Pixel 7 series received its first tease earlier this year, and on October 6 at the Made By Google event in New York, it will receive a larger reveal. Price rumours for the Pixel 7 have already begun to circulate, including one from Artem Russakovskii, the founder of Android Police. He shared a price image for the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro in a tweet on Thursday that he claimed was from a trustworthy source. The Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro will cost $599 and $899, respectively, if Russakovskii’s unnamed source is accurate, which is the same price as last year’s models.
At its annual developer conference in May, Google first unveiled the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, giving us a preview of its upcoming flagship lineup. We know both devices will launch in the fall with a new iteration of Google’s Tensor processor, Android 13, and a more polished rendition of the Pixel 6’s general aesthetic thanks to the announcements made at Google I/O.
Despite this, there are still a lot of unknowns. To help us fill in the blanks (at least some of them) before the official event on October 6, the rumour mill enters the picture. We advise you to bookmark this page because we’ll update it as soon as we hear about any reliable rumours.
Release: The Pixel 7 is anticipated to go on sale in October
Since the introduction of the first-generation Pixel to the public, Google’s flagship devices have always debuted in October. (Well, almost all of them; the Pixel 5 was introduced at the end of September.) The Pixel 7 series was prominently featured in Google’s announcement of its Oct. 6 event, making it clear that the phone will be the event’s main focus.
Processor: The Pixel 7 will utilise a second-generation Tensor chip
The Pixel 6 series introduced the Tensor chip, Google’s proprietary silicon. And with the upcoming Pixel 7 lineup, Google will keep outfitting its smartphones with its chips. The company announced in May that a second-generation Tensor chipset would be installed. This announcement shouldn’t come as a surprise because Google undertook the difficult and expensive task of creating its chipset, so why not use that chipset in its phones?
The Pixel 6’s camera system, which has new features that aren’t present on previous Pixel devices, shows off some of the improvements from the chip. These include Real Tone, which more accurately depicts skin tones, and Magic Eraser, which removes obtrusive objects from photographs. Even though we don’t yet know much about the second-generation Tensor chip, we can probably anticipate improvements based on machine learning.
Design: The front camera on the Pixel 7 will have a punch-hole
The Pixel 7 will have a pill-shaped camera notch, according to images released by Google in May, while the Pixel 7 Pro will have pill-shaped and punch-hole cutouts that together form a sort of sideways exclamation point and house three cameras.
Pixel 7’s design modifies the camera and bar cutouts
The design that the previous five generations of Pixel phones had largely maintained was altered by last year’s Pixel 6. Google is merely making adjustments to its now-signature style following that design overhaul. Do you still see the black camera bar that spans the chassis’ width? The bar, which flows into the device’s side rails this year and is made of recycled aluminium, increases the visibility of the camera cutouts. The bold black bar on the Pixel 6 series’ devices abruptly came to an end at the edges.
Cameras: The Pixel 7 Pro has three rear cameras, while the Pixel 7 has two
While the base Pixel 7 appears to have two rear cameras, similar to the standard Pixel 6, Google renders indicate that the Pixel 7 Pro will also have a triple rear camera system, like the 6 Pro. We don’t have much more information about the cameras to confirm, but it appears that Google will keep the Pixel 7 Pro’s camera configurations of standard wide, ultrawide, and telephoto.