A few hours ago we showed you some hands-on images
of a phone that was alleged to be the upcoming Google Pixel 4. It had a
familiar look, but with two rear cameras in the top left corner, and two selfie
shooters in the top right corner of the screen - yes, it looks like Google is going
with the (in)famous punch-hole tech this year.
Now we have a couple of new renders of the Pixel 4,
except these don't look anything like any of the previous leaks. In fact, they
much more closely resemble Apple's oft-leaked design change for this year's
iPhones, with a huge square camera island on the back, even positioned
similarly to how Apple is apparently going to do it. The big hump is rumored to
house at least two, if not three cameras.
A fingerprint scanner is also missing on the back,
which implies that the Pixel 4 will get an under-display sensor. Or perhaps
Google will go all-in with face unlock this year. The headphone jack is still
missing, unsurprisingly. Two speaker grilles can be seen on the bottom, which
means there may be no front-facing speaker on that part of the phone - this
should make the bottom screen bezel easier to live with in 2019.
On the other hand, the size and positioning of the
earpiece may mean that Google is planning to retain the comically large notch
seen in the Pixel 3 XL. If it at least adds facial recognition on par with
Apple's Face ID to the notch, then perhaps more people would be willing to live
with it.
This is pretty much all we can tell from these renders,
which are, as you can see, incredibly dark. While @onleaks, the source of
these, has shared a lot of reliable info in the past, you should probably take
these specific images with a grain of salt, because they're said to be created
based on early Pixel 4 prototype schematics. That means Google could have
tested this design but in the end opted for something else.
Still, it would be intriguing to have both Apple and
Google release 2019 flagships that look this similar, at least on one side. The
Pixel 4 should be powered by the Snapdragon 855 chipset, paired with at least
6GB of RAM - that memory amount is a first for Google and only a couple of
years overdue.
