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When it rains, it pours. The old saying seems to apply to Google’s upcoming Pixel products, which are leaking like crazy all of a sudden after a surprisingly lengthy period of radio silence on the rumor front, especially as far as the search giant’s next “mainstream” high-end handsets are concerned.
Familiar but new
What we’re looking at today is a refined… 5.8-incher with rounded corners, razor-thin screen bezels, and the same old premium construction combining a metal frame with a shiny glass back to keep up with the latest trends in Android flagship designs.
That 5.8-inch display (if real) is likely to make for an unusually compact high-end phone by 2023 standards, with the overall product dimensions tipped at 150.5 x 70.8 x 8.9mm. That would be a solid 5 millimeter shorter, 2.4mm narrower, and 0.2mm thicker than the Pixel 7, and of course, if you also consider the protruding rear-facing camera module, the product thickness is expected to go further up to 12mm.
What do we know about the Pixel 8 specs?
It remains to be seen if the non-Pro Pixel 8 will jump from its forerunner’s 90Hz display refresh rate technology to match the Pixel 7 Pro’s 120Hz support (as it well should), while the screen resolution is unlikely to go beyond the Full HD+ mark with this year’s size shrinkage. Speaking of shrinkage, we definitely hope the battery capacity will not take a big hit, a theory supported (at least in part) by the aforementioned bump in overall product thickness.