Heres everything we think we know (so far).
Name
A truism for smartphones nowadays is that flagships come in twos.
Its likely to repeat the formula again by introducing one big phone and one small phone.
Last years Nexus 6P was codenamed Angler, for instance.
However, these phones official names are much less certain.
Update 09/20/16: Google hassent out invitesfor an event on October 4.
Also earlier this month, aleaked APKof theGoogle Pixel Launchermade its way to the Internet.
Update 10/2/2016: Two big leaks happened the weekend before Googles October 4 press event.
First, Canadian phone company Bellleaked the newsby publishing a preorder page for the phone early on Sunday.
Then, it got worse.
UK retailer Carphone Warehousereportedly publishedleaked images of the Google Pixel and Pixel XL handsets shortly after.
The second leak included even more photos of the phones and technical specifications.
you’re able to see more leaked images in the design section of this article.
The nearly always correct Evan Blass, aka@evleaks, also confirmed the rumor.
But some bloggers have compared the leaked imagesabove to this years HTC 10, saying the hardwarelooks recycled.
The bezel does look uncommonly big as if it is missing some hardware.
However, the phone shows visible differences in several other areas.
Another leak that reportedly shows the smaller Sailfish seems to support the existence of that back glass panel.
As for colors, right now its looking like black, white, and electric blue.
The blog says the images shows both phones in the aluminum finish.
The Pixel phones will reportedly come in aluminum, black, and blue.
First, Canadian phone company Bellleaked the announcementby publishing a preorder page for the Pixel phones early on Sunday.
Later that day, UK retailer Carphone Warehousereportedly publishedimages of the Google Pixel and Pixel XL handsets.
Below are some of the images that were published.
Update 10/2/2016: Amajor leakfrom UK retailer Carphone Warehouse appears to confirm most of the specifications we anticipated.
The Pixel and Pixel XL will have 5-inch and 5.5-inch screens respectively.
Both will ship with a Snapdragon 821 processor and 4GB of RAM.
Software
Android Nougat isnt much of a secret anymore since Google launched the softwareback in March.
However, Google looks like itll have some Nexus-specific tricks up its sleeve with a new Google launcher.
Android Policealso found evidence of certain swipe actions to reach the notifications pane with that glass panel.
However, Google has been slowly pushing up the Nexus release date from the fall to late summer.
Verizon is going to carry the two “Nexus” handsets (note the quotation marks).
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