A complete review of the yet unreleased Google Pixel
3 XL appeared online last week, just to be followed by another full-scale
review a day later. They both concentrated on the bigger phone, saying nothing
about the vanilla Pixel 3. Lo and behold, several days later live images of the
phone finally appeared on Reddit, and by the looks of it, the phone will come
with a 5.5” tall screen, no notch and dual selfie cameras.
Google is not big on the design changes - it looks
like the phone will look a lot like the predecessor Pixel 2. The back will be
aluminum from the bottom almost to the top, where it switches to glass for the
single-camera setup. The front will have mirrored earpiece and speaker in the
forehead and chin, but the new thing is the dual camera setup on the front.
According to screenshots, both cameras will be 8 MP
with apertures as low as f/1.8. The image pack also comes with screenshots that
reveal some key specs like 18:9 ratio, a Full HD+ resolution, and 440 dpi. The
battery will be Li-Ion with at least 2,915 mAh capacity, but given the phone is
at 94%, the power cell is most likely 3,000 mAh.
The leakster did not provide more screenshots, but
the phone is most likely to have a Snapdragon 845 chipset and 4 GB RAM. The 3.5
mm audio jack is unlikely to return, but hey, at least you get Google Earbuds
in the retail box.
