Google’s Pixel 8 telephones now are available in a brand new mint shade

Google wasn’t precisely refined with its teases earlier this week, and now the corporate has confirmed that it’s launching each the Pixel 8 and eight Professional in a brand new mint inexperienced shade. The newest shade possibility is a bit muted in comparison with the “bay” blue 8 Professional. However if you happen to’re a fan of the smaller common Pixel 8, that is your first likelihood at a shade past the very secure black, hazel, and rose gold choices which were accessible because the telephone shipped again in October.

For each telephones, mint is barely accessible with the bottom 128GB of storage. In the event you want greater than that, you’ve gotta persist with the unique colours. Google despatched a pattern of the 8 Professional over to me, and a pamphlet included within the bundle describes mint as “impressed by the colourful hue you’d discover in nature” and “a luminous shade that invitations the thoughts right into a state of energizing calmness.” Sure, there’s extra. It’s “a shade that’s equal elements daring, centered, and optimistic for a contemporary new yr, and a brisker model of you.” Proper. No matter you say, Google design group.

Seeing it in individual, daring isn’t precisely the phrase that involves thoughts. In most indoor mild, mint can look nearly white. Hit it with some pure mild, and the colour comes out a bit extra. It’s tasteful, however if you happen to have been hoping for a saturated seafoam green-type end, this isn’t that. On the very least, it’s giving patrons extra alternative, with each Pixel 8 fashions now accessible in 4 completely different colours. I’d be curious to see whether or not the shiny glass on the smaller customary 8 makes mint pop a bit greater than it does on the matte 8 Professional.

Personally, the blue remains to be far and away my favourite as a result of it’s essentially the most colourful of the lot — and that’s one thing sorely missing from lots of “professional” smartphones lately. However if you happen to want a much less in-your-face possibility, possibly mint’s simply the factor. Most telephones inevitably discover their manner into circumstances, anyway. (Google’s already bought mint lined there.)

The mint Pixel 8 and eight Professional can be solely accessible from the Google Retailer — carriers and retailers gained’t be getting them — and you can too buy both telephone by Google Fi. US prospects will have the ability to purchase the brand new shade beginning on January twenty fifth. Along with releasing the brand new shade, Google can also be detailing the most recent characteristic drop for its Pixel units, which you’ll learn extra about right here. In the meantime, the leaks for this yr’s Google telephones have already begun.

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