The upcoming flagship HTC Nexus smartphone, codenamed Marlin, has made an appearance on the Geekbench benchmark database as soon as once more. In fact, we won’t be referring to the handset as ‘Marlin’ now on, as an unique report from the parents at Android Police lately confirmed that the handset might be marketed because the Google Pixel XL. Its smaller sibling, recognized thus far by its codename “Sailfish”, can be referred to as the Pixel.
The Google Pixel XL Geekbench itemizing principally re-confirms that will probably be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset, paired with 4GB of RAM. It managed to attain 1593 factors within the single-core check and 4151 factors within the multi-core check. Whereas some rumors have recommended that each the Pixel and Pixel XL might be powered by the newer Snapdragon 821 chipset, all benchmark leaks to date appear to level to the older Snapdragon 820 chipset. The benchmark itemizing additionally tells us that the smartphone was operating on Android NMR1 when it handed via the Geekbench check, which suggests it’s at present operating on Android Nougat Producer Launch 1 software program.
In the meantime, one other current report has revealed that each the Pixel and Pixel XL will probably be just like final yr’s Nexus smartphones within the digital camera division. Each the smartphones will function the Sony IMX378 12MP digital camera sensor on the again, which is actually a barely newer model of the IMX377 sensor used within the Google Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P from final yr. On the entrance, the 2 smartphones are tipped to be utilizing a Sony IMX179 8MP selfie digital camera, which is identical sensor that’s used on the Google Nexus 6P.
The Pixel and Pixel XL are anticipated to debut at an occasion on October four, the place Google might additionally unveil a couple of different merchandise resembling Google Residence and Daydream. They would be the first smartphones from Google to hold the Pixel branding, which has thus far been reserved for tablets and Chromebooks developed by Google. The Google Pixel is expected to start out at $449, whereas the Pixel XL will begin at $599 for the bottom variant.