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As we motion into the second one-half of the year, Google's 2022 Pixel phones are getting increasingly leaky. After some screen protectors and blurry photos of the black 3 40, we at present accept an fifty-fifty clearer look at a white Pixel 3 XL. The new leak confirms Google'due south total embrace of the display notch, besides as the glass back.

The new leak seems credible for several reasons. For i, it looks like the by 3 Xl leaks, merely the photos are of better quality. The device is also missing the standard Google logo on the dorsum, only it has a circular icon in the same identify. We run across this same shape in most Google prototype hardware. So, that'southward a match. The tipster as well notes that the telephone will not boot because Google remotely disabled it. This is something Google is known to do with epitome phones.

And then, if we take that this telephone is the real deal, what does it tell usa virtually the Pixel 3 Xl? Well, information technology really drives dwelling how gigantic the display notch is. In one of the leaked photos, the tipster has a white background on the screen. We tin can clearly see that the notch is at least equally alpine equally the Essential Phone'south notch, but it's likewise extremely wide. That ways the Pixel 3 XL will limit how many notification and status icons y'all tin can have visible. The height volition make the status bar area most twice as alpine as usual. Equally we've pointed out, making the status bar taller to accommodate a notch effectively eliminates any infinite-saving gains you go from the notch in the first identify.

The white background also shows how large the bottom chin is on this phone. It's basically unchanged from the Pixel 2 Twoscore. The iPhone 10 manages to eliminate all the bezels past folding the display controller back behind the OLED panel. Google either can't or decided not to do that for some reason.

Around dorsum, the leaked device still has a unmarried camera sensor. Many phones have moved to a dual camera setup, simply the Pixel ii was however the all-time mobile shooter even without a secondary sensor. In a dramatic reversal, the new Pixel phone appears to exist drinking glass. The bottom department has a matte look, and the top third is glossy. The segmentation replicates the drinking glass inlay on past Pixel phones, only it's a single console. This could mean wireless charging is making a comeback on Google phones after being absent-minded for several years.

We'll have all the details of this device, as well as the smaller Pixel iii, when Google announces them this fall. If it sticks to tradition, the event volition be on October 4th.

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