We’ve seen the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro. Google’s determination to announce and completely tease its new high-end flagship was revealing and complicated however, given all of the leaks that adopted, in the end not that consequential.

The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro characteristic an all-new, in some instances, fairly colourful design, with an in-display fingerprint sensor, Google’s new Tensor SoC, and the Titan M2 safety chip. The customary Pixel 6 has a 90Hz 6.4-inch display screen, whereas the Pro will get a 120Hz 6.7-inch, however the huge distinction may find yourself being the cameras. Both units have new broad and ultrawide cameras, however the Pro comes with an extra 4x optical zoom periscope lens.

But now that firm is planning on launching its new telephones on October nineteenth, you could be questioning: what may Google have left to share? If leaks are any indication, fairly a number of attention-grabbing issues. We’ll be overlaying Google’s occasion stay on Tuesday, however hold studying beneath for what to anticipate forward of the Pixel 6 launch.

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Powerful new {hardware}, together with upgraded cameras

Google lengthy held the crown for greatest smartphone digital camera on its Pixel line however slipped in the previous couple of years in favor of what each Samsung and Apple dropped at the desk. A transparent break from mid-range telephones and mid-range specs to one thing decidedly on the high-end might be simply the factor Google must retake its crown.

Rumors and leaked retailer pages from Carphone Warehouse (viewable on the Wayback Machine here and here) recommend Google is sparing no expense in updating the cameras of the Pixel 5. Both variations of the Pixel 6 characteristic a 50MP important sensor — a giant step up from the iPhone 13 Pro’s 12MP digital camera — and a 12MP ultrawide. The Pixel 6 Pro additionally has an additional digital camera with 4x zoom with 48MP telephoto that may attain a fair larger 20x zoom due to Google’s Super Res Zoom characteristic it first added with the Pixel 3.

On the entrance of the Pixel 6 Pro, the selfie digital camera will also be anticipated to characteristic a large 94-degree discipline of view, not dissimilar from the wide-angle selfie digital camera on the Pixel 3. People love selfies, and the entrance digital camera is one other clear place Google may shine since Apple determined to maintain selfies the identical on the iPhone 13.

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Other tweaks are much less seen. The battery within the Pixel 6 is anticipated to be improved and, with Extreme Battery Saver turned on, lasts for 48 hours on a single cost. The Pixel 6 Pro may additionally characteristic even sooner charging, with the power to hit 50 % cost in half-hour, Android Central writes. Helping make all of that occur is a brand new 30W charging brick (which gained’t be included within the field) and a brand new 23W Pixel Stand with lively cooling.

The similar leaked Pixel 6 retailer pages additionally level to using Corning’s Gorilla Glass Victus for the glass on the brand new telephones and a brand new clear case that might be excellent for displaying off the multicolored forms of Pixel 6.

Long-awaited software program tips just like the Magic Eraser

Google can pack as a lot high-tech {hardware} into its telephones because it desires, however the actual trick is all the additional efficiency its software program squeezes out of it. The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro seem to have a number of software program options which may do exactly that.

First is Magic Eraser, which guarantees to “remove strangers and unwanted objects” with just some faucets in Google Photos. This truly seems to be a photograph characteristic Google’s been engaged on for at the least 4 years. The firm launched the same obstruction-erasing characteristic in 2017 by eradicating a fence from a photograph of a baseball recreation. The tremendous print on the leaked retailer web page is obvious that Magic Eraser gained’t work for each picture, nevertheless it actually looks like it might be very spectacular when it does.

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Google’s two different software program options talked about in the identical leaked retailer pages are opposites. Face Unblur makes an attempt to deblur faces captured in motion-heavy pictures (Google’s instance is youngsters enjoying). While Motion Mode “adds more action to action shots.” It’s not tremendous clear what that entails, however Google’s picture instance exhibits a blurry, clearly in-motion Ferris wheel with two topics in focus standing in entrance of it — virtually like lengthy publicity background with a conventional picture foreground.

Other software program developments embody a number of forms of on-device translation, due to Google’s mysteriously structured Tensor chip. The textual content from the Carphone Warehouse leak particularly calls out:

Get your chats translated in actual time, hearken to podcasts with translated captions and even use your digital camera to learn indicators in as much as 55 languages. No Internet wanted.

Rumors level to pretty intensive software program help for each variations of the Pixel 6, which implies they might keep forward of the pack as Google rolls out new options over time. So far, that appears like 4 main Android updates, according to 9to5Google, and 5 years of safety updates based mostly on what The Verge noticed in these leaked retailer pages.

The Google-y variations of an Apple One subscription

What higher to go along with a bunch of recent telephone {hardware} and software program than a pleasant all-in-one subscription package deal? Apple One was Apple’s model of the subscription bundle tying in providers like Apple TV Plus, Apple Music, and further iCloud storage. Now, it looks like Google may need one thing comparable in thoughts with a bundle known as “Pixel Pass.”

A leaked document from Brandon Lee suggests Pixel Pass may mix as much as 4 subscriptions: YouTube Premium or YouTube Music, Google One for further storage and reductions, Play Pass for apps and video games, and Google Fi. The bundle may additionally incorporate some form of improve plan akin to Apple’s iPhone Upgrade program.

A foldable Pixel

Last however not least, there’s a complete different Pixel gadget that Google may exhibit or at the least tease on the launch of the Pixel 6 — a foldable codenamed “Passport.”

In 2019, Google revealed it has prototyped foldable units for years. The firm has additionally made modifications to Android through the years to higher help units like Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 3, and it has much more deliberate. It follows that Google may at the least attempt its hand at making some form of gadget to straddle the telephone and pill markets.

An inside Google doc leaked in 2020 confirmed the corporate was focusing on a 2021 launch for the “Passport.” Further reporting from The Elec this June claimed that Samsung had begun manufacturing on folding OLED shows to be used in new units from Google, Vivo, and Xiaomi. That may line up with a late 2021 launch.