Google Is Revealing New Pixel {Hardware} Subsequent Month

Google’s Pixel units will launch sooner than Apple’s iPhone this 12 months. Google introduced its annual Made by Google occasion will happen two months sooner than anticipated. It’s going to happen Tuesday, August 13, at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, and it’s once we count on the corporate will reveal every little thing there may be to find out about AI, the Pixel 9, and the following model of Android.

The occasion will begin at 10 a.m. PT/ 1 p.m. ET and will likely be livestreamed on YouTube. There will likely be an in-person occasion that Gizmodo has already RSVP’d to, so we’ll be there on the bottom with all that’s new from Google.

Over the previous 5 years, Google has sometimes hosted these Made by Google occasions in October. Android blogs like 9to5Google determine the discharge is earlier this 12 months to coincide with Android 15‘s official rollout as a substitute of ready till two months after the actual fact. It’s additionally probably that Google desires to get the brand new Pixel telephones on the market and into the palms of customers earlier than Apple rolls out the white carpet for the next iPhone in September, which is once we normally count on Cupertino’s corresponding occasion.

We count on to see no less than three sizes of the Pixel 9 smartphone this time. The rumor mill has been churning across the thought of a Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Professional, and a Pixel 9 Professional XL. The suspicion is that the XL will keep the identical dimension as the present Pixel 8 Pro, whereas the Pixel 9 Professional will likely be smaller to accommodate palms like mine. As Jewel sang again in 1998, my palms are small, I do know. However they’re not yours; they’re my very own. My palms will wield a smaller Pixel smartphone with a greater digicam zoom than the common Pixel affords. Being on the Pixel 8 with out correct zoom previous 2x has been difficult.

We additionally count on a third-generation replace for the Pixel Buds and the Pixel Watch. The rumors about what’s subsequent on the horizon for wearables have been slim, however we would get a bigger 45mm variant to raised compete with Samsung’s watch offerings—all of that are getting a refresh subsequent month.