Mere hours in the past some CAD-based renders of the upcoming Google Pixel 9 Professional had been outed, and now it is time for its smaller and extra inexpensive sibling to get the very same remedy. Girls and gents, meet the Google Pixel 9.
Proper off the bat, one factor clearly stands out. In contrast to the Pixel 8, the Pixel 9 has three cameras on the rear, considered one of which clearly has a periscope zoom lens. This can be a large replace for the ‘vanilla’ Pixel line, and one which brings it way more in tune with the Professional, spec-wise.
Shifting on, the opposite apparent factor is that Google has additionally been infested by the ‘flat sides’ illness began by Apple some time in the past. Gone is the curved body of the Pixel 8, in is the iPhone-like flatness. We do not particularly thoughts if a body is flat or not, however we do really feel the necessity to level out that each firm doing the identical factor is simply… boring and repetitive?
Anyway, the digicam island is completely different too. It is not spilling into the body. Now your complete island is oval-shaped (within the Pixel 8 solely the bit really housing the cameras was oval), and it nonetheless takes up nearly your complete width of the telephone. It simply would not finish within the body, it now ends close to it. It additionally appears to be produced from metallic as earlier than. Whereas it is not equivalent to what we have seen in earlier Pixels, this clearly nonetheless makes the telephone recognizable as a Pixel.
Over on the entrance, you may see the body on account of its flatness. The display bezels appear to be completely symmetrical which may be very welcome, and within the high center part of the display there is a single hole-punch cutout for the selfie digicam.
In accordance with the supply of those renders, the Pixel 9 will measure 152.8 x 71.9 x 8.5 mm (whereas the digicam bump will take the thickness to 12 mm). That makes it marginally taller, wider, and slimmer than its predecessor. It is anticipated to sport a 6.1-inch display, which is smaller than the Pixel 8’s however might need a barely completely different facet ratio.
No different particulars concerning the Pixel 9 are identified but, however that is not an enormous drawback contemplating it is solely anticipated to change into official in about eight months. Absolutely by then we’ll have been drowning in leaks for some time, because it all the time occurs with Pixels. Keep tuned and we’ll let you understand after we discover out extra.