Google has lifted the curtains on the Pixel 10, its flagship phone for 2025, by way of a short clip posted on the Google Store homepage on Monday. The Pixel 10 will seemingly be totally revealed at a Made by Google event in New York on Aug. 20.
The teaser video merely reveals the again of the machine with the Pixel’s outstanding oval-shaped digital camera bar, together with a flash and sensor of some type. It follows an analogous design to previous Pixels, however whereas the Pixels 6, 7 and eight all had digital camera bars that ran edge-to-edge, the Pixel 9 and 10’s digital camera bar is an island. The extra inexpensive Pixel 9A from earlier this 12 months would not sport any type of digital camera bump, and as an alternative sits flush with the machine.
A teaser video of the Google Pixel 10.
It comes after a series of leaks about the device have hit the web over the previous few months, together with the telephone being noticed throughout a business shoot on the streets of Vancouver back in May.
Present Pixel 10 rumors level to a really related design to final 12 months’s handset, with some robust inner upgrades. Notably, the Tensor 5 chip will likely be made by TSMC on a 3nm course of, in accordance with an Android Authority report from March. Earlier Tensor chips have been made by Samsung.
The display screen on the Pixel 10 Professional Fold will see a lift from 2,700 nits to three,000 nits, in accordance with one other Android Authority report. It’s going to additionally get a battery bump to five,015 mAh, a 7% enhance from final 12 months’s foldable.
As for cameras, the Pixel 10 will reportedly get the 50-megapixel Samsung GN8 wide-angle lens, an 11MP 3J1 telephoto lens (the 3J1 will even be used for the selfie digital camera) and Sony’s 13-megapixel IMX712 ultrawide lens. The Pixel 10 Professional Fold seemingly will not have the identical high-end digital camera array, as foldable phones have much less room to work with.
The Pixel 10 will virtually actually be powered by Android 16 and could have a slew of AI options.
Google did not instantly reply to a request for additional remark.
Whereas Google’s {hardware} enterprise is a small part of the company’s overall revenue, the Pixel line does serve an essential function in signaling to different {hardware} companions the place the corporate sees the way forward for its Android cell working system. Pixel phones, which seldom concentrate on uncooked energy, ship clear person interfaces with robust computational images.
The well-reviewed Pixel portfolio does put Google in a considerably awkward place with {hardware} companions that determined to make Android units moderately than go off and make their very own working techniques. With Google’s personal telephones, the tech big is immediately competing with Samsung, OnePlus, Motorola and others.
Whereas Samsung is the second largest handset maker worldwide (behind Apple), in accordance with Statcounter, Google has been consuming away at market share in sure markets. With the discharge of the Pixel 9 final 12 months, Google made strong inroads in North American markets.
