Famous YouTuber Jon Prosser claims that each the Google Pixel 7 and the Pixel 7 Professional will go on sale on October 13 (opens in new tab), in line with what he claims are “very respected sources.”

Our buddies at Android Authority (opens in new tab) word that Prosser has efficiently predicted Pixel launch dates up to now, so we are able to take this on good authority. 

Prosser moreover claims that there might be an occasion every week previous to the on-sale date, on Thursday, October 6, and that Google will begin pre-orders for the telephones on that day. Prosser has no new data on pricing or specs for the telephones, solely saying that they are going to be “very reminiscent” of final yr’s flagship handsets. 

Whereas we would nonetheless take these dates with a pinch of salt, this all strains up with our greatest estimates. Virtually each earlier Pixel telephone has adopted this sample: happening sale in October after an announcement occasion every week or so prior.

The Pixel 5 was introduced the final day in September, however with know-how constraints throughout the globe, we’d anticipate telephone launches to come back later this yr, not earlier. 

We’re excited to see the Google Pixel 7 – particularly after the final mannequin, the Google Pixel 6a – underwhelmed us a bit and had us reaching for our older Pixel 6 gadgets, amongst a lot of options.

Evaluation: what telephone does Google need us to purchase?

The launch of the Google Pixel 7 has been… counterintuitive, to say the least. Google introduced that the telephones had been coming means again in Might, at its annual Google I/O developer convention. The Pixel 6 household was pretty recent, but it surely wasn’t a shock to listen to in regards to the mid-year Pixel 6a, since a-series Pixel telephones have historically been extra reasonably priced mid-year handsets that provide some flagship Pixel options for much less.

As a substitute of simply teasing the Pixel 6a – a telephone that simply went on sale lately – Google went additional and introduced the Pixel 7 household too. After all, it was no shock that Google was engaged on a Pixel 7, however this announcement broke a basic rule of shopper electronics: do not announce the following era (opens in new tab) of a specific product whereas your prospects are nonetheless obsessed with (and extra importantly, nonetheless fortunately shopping for) the present one.