Thanks to leaker Jon Prosser, the world of Android was in for a lot of news this week, with the most notable being the leaked design of the upcoming Google Pixel 6 and Google Pixel 6 Pro.
Jon Prosser is known for his amazing track record with Apple leaks, but he has not done many leaks in the Android world but that all changed this week when he showed off the design of the Google Pixel 6 and its bigger brother the Google 6 Pro and here is everything we know so far about these two new Google flagships.
First is the new design. With the Pixel 6 line, Google seem to be taking a different design approach. The last few Pixel devices have been midrange devices and they have looked the part as well with the aluminium body on the Pixel 5 and the polycarbonate build on the Pixel 4a. However with their new flagships, they seem to have headed back to the drawing board and going by these leaks, they seem to be headed for a more premium design language.
Looking at the images, (Pixel 6 in the white colour and Pixel 6 in the off-white colour) Google seem to be doing many things different with the upcoming Pixel line with the most obvious being the camera layout. The Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro seem to have gone back to something similar to the Nexus 6P in terms of the camera layout. Based on the first image, and evidence found in the code of some of the early builds of Android 12 found by Android Authority and 9TO5Google also suggest that the new pixel lineup will finally adopt the in-screen fingerprint scanner rather than the rear mounted one it has been rocking since the first pixel. The phone also seems to have a centred hole punch selfie camera compared to the side hole punch previous Pixels have had. Overall, it is a major change in design language, but one that is welcomed from Google, a company that has been known to be a company that rarely innovates in the design department.
In terms of the specs that the Pixel 6 line will rock, not much is known but a leak by 9TO5Google a few months ago suggest that Google could be debuting their own silicon. The custom chipset is codenamed “Whitechapel” and it will be unique to the Pixel 6 and co-created by Google and Samsung. Unfortunately that is all that is known so far about this new silicon. The Pixel line is and never has been a spec beast so this chip is not expected to be on the same level as the A14 Bionic and the Snapdragon 888 but rumour has it that the Pixel 5a will be rocking a Snapdragon 765G, an upper midrange chip so if there is any truth in that, then the “Whitechapel” chipset should be more powerful than the 765G.
That is all that is known so far about this new line of devices. It will be interesting to see if any of this materialises and if this is the actual design of the device, but we will have to wait until early October for that.
