What it’s good to know
- The Pixel 8 Professional has apparently been leaked by Google’s personal machine simulator.
- Based on the simulator, the Pixel 8 Professional will are available three totally different colours, and can nonetheless embody a SIM card tray.
- This leak additionally appears to substantiate rumors that the Pixel 8 Professional will characteristic a built-in temperature sensor.
We’re barely a month away from Google’s subsequent main occasion, the place the corporate is predicted to announce the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Professional. Whereas the rumors and hypothesis have been piling in by the day, Google is giving us our greatest take a look at the Pixel 8 Professional because of the machine showing on the Pixel Telephone Simulator (through @evowizz.)
Together with exhibiting off the unannounced cellphone, the Pixel Telephone Simulator confirmed a number of different essential particulars. For one, the Pixel 8 Professional shall be obtainable in three totally different colours: Sky, Porcelain, and Licorice. This follows the pattern of the Pixel 7 Professional, which additionally got here in three colorways, however Google is ditching the “Lemongrass” and “Snow” in favor of Porcelain and Licorice.
Maybe extra importantly, the Telephone Simulator additionally confirmed that the Pixel 8 Professional will, certainly, embody a SIM card tray. Earlier renders urged that Google is perhaps going eSIM solely, however fortunately, that does not appear to be the case for now.
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Lastly, the rumors surrounding Google’s addition of a temperature sensor to its flagship machine appear to be true, as if there was a lot doubt at this level. The sensor is discovered beneath the flash, alongside the rear digicam bar. Sadly, there aren’t actually some other particulars shared, as choosing the sensor solely tells you what it’s and never the rest.
Moreover that, plainly Google is basically centered on fine-tuning the general design for its subsequent handset. The facet rails appear to be flattened out a bit extra whereas nonetheless curving to satisfy the again glass.
Maybe much more thrilling is that the Pixel 8 Professional’s show, at the least within the Telephone Simulator, is totally flat. There have been rising complaints about using curved shows amongst the finest Android telephones, and Google is about to be one of many first to make the change.
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Including insult to damage (for Google,) Evan Blass took this chance to point out off a render of the Pixel 8 Professional within the new “Sky” colorway. He additionally gave us a take a look at the default wallpapers that can accompany the three totally different colorways for the Pixel 8 Professional (discover the date on the house display screen).
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Google is not anticipated to “formally” announce the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Professional till October 4. However we cannot be shocked if the corporate simply spills the remainder of the beans within the lead-up to the occasion.
