Google tends to launch two smartphones every year under the Pixel series of smartphones, the latest ones being the Google Pixel 3 and 3XL. Pixel phones have been known in the industry mainly for the cameras and the stock Android experience. We have been waiting for the all-new Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL to be released, while there is enough time yet for both to launch. We have got some news and rumors starting to appear as we move closer to the launch time of the year. Here, we’ve tried to gather all the latest Pixel 4 leaks, news, and information into one place for all the tech lovers and potential buyers.
21 April 2019: The Google Pixel 4 has been rumored to come with a 12MP single camera setup on the back, while the Google Pixel 4XL may be coming with a dual camera setup of a 12.2MP Primary Sensor + a 16 MP Wide Angle Lens
12 April 2019: As per a report by 9to5Google, the Pixel 4 and the 4 XL are to be codenamed as ‘Coral’ and ‘Flame’ respectively. You can read in detail about this here
13 March 2019: A Pixel 4 Design surfaced the web shaking the industry with a dual hole punch design on the front similar to the Galaxy S10+, also the back panel has no space for the fingerprint reader, so the device may come with an Ultra Sonic fingerprint scanner and dual rear and front camera’s.
25 January 2019: A unexpected device with codename ‘Coral’ has been benchmarked on Geekbench revealing a Snapdragon 855 Chipset with 6GB of RAM, this is predicted to be the Google Pixel 4 as Google uses fish names as codenames for devices. The device runs on Android Q as well.
17 January 2019: Google Recently made a patent showing off a full view display with no notch or bezels while keeping room for dual front-facing speakers on the front. This design looks interesting but can’t be confirmed that this is a Pixel smartphone.
Fans usually get excited about all the upcoming phones and we usually get to see a lot of fans made concepts of smartphones as a token of love. We can’t wait much longer after seeing the beautiful renders of the Google Pixel 4 and 4 Xl made by Twitter User PhoneDesigner.
It is too early to predict an unknown smartphone exactly but we can have a pretty good assumption. As technology improves so much each year, and Google usually follows a similar upgrade path as most other manufacturers.
It is expected to feature a 5.8-inch Quad HD AMOLED Display powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Mobile Chipset coupled with 6/8GB of RAM. It will come in 64GB/128GB storage variants. In terms of camera, a Dual Rear AI Cameras of 12.2 Primary +16MP wide angled camera will be present. On the front, a dual 8MP Primary + 2MP Depth Sensor will be available for beautiful selfies. Dual front-facing stereo speakers, with a battery capacity of 3,300mAh and USB-Type C, no 3.5mm Headphone Jack will be present.
Going with the track record of Google and the phone launched this year with almost the same specs by other companies, the new Pixel will still be expensive, coming in at a price tag of $799 or more. Also, the larger Google Pixel 4XL offering powerful cameras and the longer battery may cost $899 or more for the base variant. These devices won’t be cheap but will be full of features.
The Google Pixel 3 was launched late in Q4 of 2018 and we expect the Google Pixel 4 to launch in late October or starting of November. These phones would give high competition to other devices launched this year. We will be updating this article as soon as there’s any information, so stay tuned for that.