Google looks set to add some mid-range phones to the Pixel family.
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Google looks set to add some mid-range phones to the Pixel family.
Following rumors from beforehand this year about a mid-range Pixel targeting India, a cheep from consecutive leaker Roland Quandt gives us a little acumen into what to apprehend for abutting year.
According to Quandt, who has abounding absolute leaks beneath his belt, Google is alive on a “mobile” accessory that runs on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 chip.
The accessory would be appear in the aboriginal bisected of abutting year, and Google has aloof started assignment on it.
While Quandt speculates that this accessory could be a Pixel phone, he doesn’t affirmation to accept any specific advice on what this accessory is, added than to say it’s “mobile”. That said, it seems absurd that Google would put out a tablet, accustomed it aloof (unceremoniously) yanked the book area from its Android website.
Presuming the accessory Roland Quandt heard about is absolutely a new Pixel, it could be the second generation of the mid-range Pixel. The first bearing could reportedly access in July or August of this year, accurately targeting India and added developing markets.
This aboriginal in the development cycle, aggregate is still in flux, so alike if this rumor is atom on, the activity could still change or alike shut bottomward in the future.
Snapdragon 710 is Qualcomm’s new dent for “upper mid-range” devices. It aims to action aerial achievement and a affluent affection set to phones that advertise in the $400-$500 range. The Xiaomi Mi 8 SE is the aboriginal phone that launched with Snapdragon 710 on board.
The antecedent to the Snapdragon 710 is the Snapdragon 660, begin in the Vivo X21, Nokia 7 Plus, Xiaomi Mi Note 3, and HTC U12 Life.
Compared to the Snapdragon 660, the 710 will accompany cogent achievement improvements, a 30 percent abatement in array consumption, and abutment for avant-garde apparatus acquirements and added AI features.
Previous Pixel phones accept all been high-end, with some variants of the Pixel 2 XL testing the $1000 limit. A Pixel accessory that sells for bisected of that could abundantly aggrandize Google’s accouterments reach, at the amount of stacking up burden on Android manufacturers.
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Off to Taiwan for @computex_taipei today, but here’s a tidbit for ya: Google is alive on a “mobile” accessory based on the Snapdragon 710 currently appointed for barrage in the 1st bisected of 2019. Sounds like this ability be the (or one of them) accessible mid-range Pixel phone.
— Roland Quandt (@rquandt) June 2, 2018
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