Google Pixel 9: all of the leaks and rumors so far

The authoritative connection is that Google’s holding a “Made by Google” Pixel lawsuit connected August 13th. The timing indicates Google mightiness motorboat the caller Pixel 9 and 9 Pro series well up of the accustomed October release, which could springiness it a buzzy pb up of the iPhone 16 expected successful September. However, it would mean the existent flagship Pixel 8 lineup’s clip successful the spotlight would get chopped abbreviated — it feels similar it was conscionable reviewed!

Google seems to beryllium bringing backmost the “XL” moniker for a larger Pixel 9 Pro, thing it had dropped with the 2020 motorboat of the Pixel 5. From leaked images, it looks similar the Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL volition person the aforesaid camera systems, truthful dissimilar erstwhile years, those who similar an easier-to-hold instrumentality don't person to opt for the non-Pro Pixel with a lesser camera.

Scroll down to spot each the rumors, including a aboriginal tablet, the inevitable Pixel 9A, and watches.

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  Google mightiness hole its fingerprint scanner woes with the Pixel 9

  

  It should beryllium little of a farce to unlock the adjacent procreation of Google Pixel phones.

  Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

  Google’s upcoming Pixel 9 lineup volition reportedly diagnostic a faster, much reliable ultrasonic fingerprint scanner, according to Android Authority. It would regenerate the optical under-display fingerprint sensor that Google introduced on the Pixel 6 with the newer exertion that’s susceptible of speechmaking adjacent bedewed oregon oily fingerprints.

  The power could besides code some of the widespread issues that users person experienced erstwhile trying to unlock their Pixel devices, with immoderate radical saying that airy levels and digit dryness tin interaction the reliability of the erstwhile optical reader. Optical scanners are the oldest method of speechmaking fingerprints. They enactment by flashing airy against the user’s digit and past visually detecting patterns and ridges connected the aboveground — meaning immoderate changes similar ungraded oregon blemishes tin interfere with the process.

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  Pixel successful pink.

  One idiosyncratic connected X shows disconnected what appears to beryllium the Pixel 9 successful a shadiness of bubblegum pink. Google is expected to uncover its caller Pixel lineup during a astonishment hardware event connected August 13th.

  
  

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  Google’s Pixel 9 lineup appears successful hands-on photos 5 months early

  

  Image: Rozetked

  It’s a time that ends successful Y, truthful naturally, we’re dealing with yet different Google Pixel hardware leak. This time, the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL tin beryllium seen broadside by broadside successful new images from Rozetked — a afloat 5 months earlier Google’s emblematic October merchandise timeframe.

  I person galore questions astir however and wherefore these units are retired successful the satellite truthful early, but present we are. And I cognize a batch of you are nary uncertainty eyeing that regular 9 Pro, which volition yet enactment Google’s precise champion camera chops into a normal-sized phone. Meanwhile, the 9 Pro XL looks a just spot taller than Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro Max.

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  This mightiness beryllium Google’s Pixel 9 Pro, implicit with 16GB of RAM.

  We’ve seen purported renders of the Pixel 9, present 9to5Google points retired Rozetked (also a source for Pixel 3 epoch leaks) photos of a prototype 6.1-inch Pixel 9 Pro.

  In a representation of the footwear screen, it says the “caiman” instrumentality has 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM onboard (up from 12GB connected the Pixel 8 Pro), on with 128GB of storage.

  
  

  

  

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  Pixel 9 Pro Fold?

  That’s seemingly the sanction of what we’ve been calling the Pixel Fold 2 for the past year, according to Android Authority. Google is reportedly adding a Pixel 9 Pro XL to its lineup, too.

  
  

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  Google’s Pixel 9 whitethorn get an Apple-like outer SOS feature

  

  Google could beryllium adding a diagnostic precise akin to Apple’s Emergency SOS diagnostic to the Pixel 9 and the next Pixel Fold. That’s according to leaker Kamila Wojciechowska, who writes for Android Authority that the institution would spouse with T-Mobile to connection the diagnostic but whitethorn adhd different providers later.

  Just similar Apple’s system, Google’s SOS diagnostic would reportedly contiguous aboriginal Pixel owners with a bid of questions to ascertain what’s happening, alternatively than fto users thumb 1 out. A video successful the Android Authority nonfiction features the animation Google volition show to users to assistance them get the telephone aligned with a satellite.

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  Google’s Pixel 9 volition reportedly travel successful 3 sizes this fall

  

  Google plans to shingle up its smartphone strategy successful 2024 by releasing 3 antithetic models of the upcoming Pixel 9. That’s according to 91mobiles, with the tract present claiming that the renders published earlier this twelvemonth (created by OnLeaks) were successful information of the Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro “XL” — and not the regular Pixel 9, which it’s sharing for the archetypal clip successful caller images today.

  Google utilized the XL branding for its bigger Pixels until astir 2019, but it went distant with the one-size Pixel 5 and stayed gone erstwhile the institution pivoted to the “Pro” sanction starting successful 2021. Now it sounds similar Google volition travel much of an iPhone strategy and divided the Pro tier into 2 antithetic sizes, and resurrecting the XL moniker makes consciousness successful that case.

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  Leaked pictures amusement a precise bluish Pixel 9.

  OnLeaks shared a leaked picture of the Pixel 9 that’s expected aboriginal this year. The remainder of this batch of promo shots are published astatine 91Mobiles, on with a rendered video. The telephone has a 6.1-inch show and whitethorn person a telephoto lens, according to the article.

  This follows up yesterday’s Pixel 9 Pro leak, besides from OnLeaks.

  
  

  

  

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  The Pixel 9 leaks are already here

  

  The Pixel 8 has lone been retired for a fewer months, but that isn’t stopping leakers from getting aboriginal images of the forthcoming Pixel 9. Reliable leaker OnLeaks shared a acceptable of renders with MySmartPrice, showing what appears to beryllium Google’s Pixel 9 Pro flagship with wholly level edges framing the telephone and giving disconnected iPhone vibes.

  That’s not the lone large plan alteration connected this telephone — it looks similar Google whitethorn person besides redesigned the rear camera bar. Instead of stretching the camera barroom crossed the full width of the phone, the renders amusement the three-camera setup wrong of a bulging, oval-shaped island, akin to the Pixel Fold. It besides appears to travel with a somewhat smaller 6.5-inch show (down from 6.7 inches on the Pixel 8 Pro), according to MySmartPrice.

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