Images of an alleged Pixel 5 Pro, a more “beefy” version of the smartphone Pixel 5 released in September of this year, appeared on the Slashleaks website and were reproduced in several news outlets around the world.
The fact that there is no information accompanying the images – which you can see below – leaves us somewhat skeptical about the veracity of the material. But some suspicions can be drawn from what was found here:
Technical description of the alleged “Pixel 5” mentions platforms that, in 2021, would be outdated (Image: Slashleaks/Disclosure)
Oddities
For starters, the technical information in one of the images mentions the “Kona” platform, which serves as the basis for the Snapdragon 865 and 865 Plus processors. This already causes a certain strangeness: a manufacturer the size of Google normally prefers to launch high-end devices with more recent chipsets, and if a supposed Pixel 5 Pro were to launch in 2021, the information would be more credible if the image mentioned the Iahaina platform, which serves as the basis for the Snapdragon 888.
The images also show that this smartphone does not have a front camera cutout, suggesting that it is a photo sensor under the screen. Currently, a device that uses this feature is the Axon 20 5G, from ZTE. The same RAM and storage configurations are present here: the 8 GB of memory and 256 GB of space of the alleged Pixel 5 Pro are also in the ZTE smartphone. However, these images do not show a speaker under the display, which the Axon has.
Rumors about Google launching a flagship smartphone in Q2021 XNUMX have been doing the rounds online for a while now. The company hasn’t commented on these images specifically, but it has been promising “exciting hardware” for next year – a smartphone with an under-display camera certainly falls into that category.
For now, we can only wait and see, but these images, in particular, have not inspired much confidence among experts.
Source: Slashleaks