The Google Pixel Eight and Pixel Eight Professional are positive to be a great distance off, because the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Professional solely launched in October 2022, however already we’re enthusiastic about – and even listening to about – the following fashions.

Under you’ll discover the whole lot we’ve heard to this point, together with our professional predictions, protecting the potential launch date, worth, and specs.

Then beneath that we’ve included a want checklist of what we would like from the Pixel Eight and Pixel Eight Professional, as a result of whereas the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Professional are the perfect telephones that Google has ever made, they’re not excellent.

The usual Pixel 7, specifically, has room for enchancment, however even the Pixel 7 Professional has some flaws, so our want checklist contains the important thing enhancements we would like from these subsequent fashions.

Minimize to the chase

• What’s it? The following flagship cellphone from Google
• When is it out? In all probability October 2023
• How a lot will it value? Seemingly a minimum of $599 / £599 / AU$999

Google Pixel Eight launch date and worth

There’s no information but on when the Google Pixel Eight may launch, however that’s straightforward to guess, with the principle numbered telephones virtually all the time touchdown in October of their launch yr.

In reality, each Pixel mannequin outdoors of the A-line has been introduced in October, besides the Pixel 5, which was unveiled on September 30, 2020 (so, virtually October) and didn’t ship till October.

Getting extra particular than that’s trickier, because the dates in October have diverse, but it surely’s doubtless that the Pixel Eight can be unveiled in both early or mid-October 2023, after which ship in mid or late-October, most likely round per week after the announcement.

We’re undecided what the Pixel Eight will value, however the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Professional each had precisely the identical costs as their predecessors, so it’s potential Google will stick to that pricing for one more yr.

In that case, the Pixel Eight will begin at $599 / £599 / AU$999, whereas the Pixel Eight Professional will begin at $899 / £849 / AU$1,299. That stated, we wouldn’t be stunned if Google pushes the worth up a bit, particularly as the present fashions undercut key competitors just like the iPhone 14 line.

Google Pixel Eight information and leaks

We haven’t heard a lot concerning the Google Pixel Eight but, however just a few leaks have emerged. For one factor, there are studies that the Tensor Three chipset we’re anticipating to energy the cellphone is already within the works, and that it will as soon as once more be made by Samsung. Nonetheless, there’s no information but on how far more highly effective this can be than the Tensor G2 within the Pixel 7.

We additionally know that satellite tv for pc communications are prone to be provided by the Pixel 8, very similar to the iPhone 14 is able to. Hiroshi Lockheimer (the senior vp of Android) has stated that assist for this can be coming with Android 14; so it’s doubtless the Pixel Eight would be the first Google cellphone to supply it.

Lastly, there’s proof of a thriller Pixel cellphone within the works, which primarily based on leaked specs may be the Pixel Eight or Pixel Eight Professional. 9to5Google (opens in new tab) has discovered this proof in publicly out there code from the Android Open Supply Undertaking, and it factors to a cellphone with a 1440 x 3120 120Hz display, a Tensor chipset, and dimensions of 155 x 71mm.

These display specs are according to the present Professional fashions, however the dimensions are extra what we’d count on from the usual Pixel 8, so which may imply a decision and refresh fee improve is deliberate for the usual mannequin.

What we wish to see

Under we’ve listed the 5 issues that we most need the Pixel Eight line to supply.

1. A 120Hz display for each fashions

The Pixel 7 Professional has a 120Hz display, simply as you’d count on from a flagship cellphone, however the usual Pixel 7 doesn’t – it’s caught at 90Hz.

Provided that even among the greatest low-cost telephones now have 120Hz screens, that appears considerably unacceptable, so we actually hope Google presents a 120Hz display on each the Pixel Eight and the Pixel Eight Professional.

2. Extra energy

The Pixel 7 line makes use of the Google Tensor G2 chipset, and it’s a chipset that has quite a bit going for it.

Designed particularly for these telephones, it excels in areas like machine studying and AI, however relating to uncooked energy, the Tensor G2 is just a little missing, because it performs worse in most benchmarks than key rivals just like the Snapdragon Eight Plus Gen 1 and the Apple A16 Bionic. In reality it performs considerably worse.

So we’d prefer to see a give attention to energy from the Tensor G3 (or regardless of the subsequent mannequin finally ends up being known as), in order that the Pixel Eight line is extra aggressive on that entrance. Nonetheless, we don’t need that to come back on the expense of the issues Tensor chipsets are at the moment good at.

3. Higher battery life and sooner charging

Each the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Professional ought to comfortably get you thru a day of pretty heavy use, primarily based on our assessments, however they aren’t going to get you thru a second day, and even midway via a second day typically.

So their longevity is respectable however removed from distinctive, and so they additionally each cost fairly slowly, so we’d prefer to see enhancements each to the battery life and the charging pace for the Pixel Eight line.

4. Longer-term assist

Google has promised three years of Android model updates and 5 years of safety patches for the Pixel 7 line, which has some Android telephones beat however doesn’t come near the variety of years of assist Apple usually presents with its iPhones.

Since Google makes Android and is utilizing a bespoke chipset designed particularly for the telephones right here, there actually shouldn’t be any motive it will possibly’t assist its telephones for longer, so we’d prefer to see prolonged assist provided with the Pixel 8.

5. 10x optical zoom on the Professional

The Google Pixel 7 Professional presents 5x optical zoom, up from 4x on the Pixel 6 Professional, however we’d prefer to see an even bigger soar for the following mannequin, bringing it as much as 10x according to the Samsung Galaxy S22 Extremely.

That stated, we nonetheless desire a shorter distance zoom – of ideally 2x or 3x – to be provided as properly, so there are two distinctly completely different zoom distances out there. The Google Pixel 7 Professional is already probably the greatest digicam telephones, however with this improve the Pixel Eight Professional could possibly be even higher.