Google just tweeted an image of the Pixel 4, a smartphone that the company isn’t expected to ship until October. The tweet comes after renders of the device were published in recent days, revealing a change in design language from Google’s previous devices. “Wait ‘till you see what it can do,” the Pixel team tweeted.
The official image clearly shows at least two rear cameras and a third sensor of some kind in a large camera bump on the phone’s back. There’s also another tiny dot at the lower right of the camera module, which could be a microphone. Is the secondary lens for portraits or a wide-angle perspective? Who knows. Apart from that, we see what looks to be a white or gray power button and the company’s G logo. For the first time ever on a Pixel, there is no rear fingerprint scanner present on this device.
Renders published by @Onleaks and Pricebaba offer a good preview of the Pixel 4’s external design, which is clearly headed in a new direction from years past. It’s expected that the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL will come in sizes largely similar to their predecessors. Unbox Therapy’s Lewis Hilsenteger said in a video uploaded June 11th that the larger-sized Pixel 4 XL will not feature a notch; Google will instead move back to a more traditional top bezel that could house advanced face authentication sensors to bring the Pixel 4 closer in line with Apple’s Face ID system.
