Google, “mega” rumor on the cameras of Pixel 7, Tablet, Fold and an unreleased

It was not easy to obtain this information, He admitted Kuba Wojciechowski, the developer who by publishing his discoveries on Twitter gave birth to this news, or rather – better – generated a little treasure trove of information on upcoming Google devices. Of course, we are still in the field of rumorsbut it is the lines of code that speak signed from Google so, given that there are no official confirmations or statements from any manager, you can take them with a little more confidence than usual.

CLEAR OVERVIEW OF PIXEL 7 AND 7 PRO, WITH AN ODDNESS

The excursus, the window on the near future, begins from Pixel 7, the top of the range that will arrive in autumn. According to the code and Kuba, the wide-angle (main) and ultra-wide-angle sensors should remain respectively Samsung ISOCELL GN1 And Sony IMX381. Both Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro would therefore continue to follow the current line. The two would also share the front-facing camera, the 11-megapixel dual-pixel Samsung 3J1 that’s now on just the Pixel 6 Pro, while the Pixel 6 has an 8-megapixel Sony IMX355.

It appears that the Pixel 7 continues on the line of the two rear cameras, while the Pixel 7 Pro will keep a group with three different types. But for the third, it will continue to be a telephoto lensGoogle would have a at least curious news: the sensor would be Samsung’s ISOCELL GM1, which would replace the current Sony IMX586. The fact is that the two on paper are direct rivals, with performances therefore quite aligned. So why the change?

The reasons could be different: better availability of the GM1 (we must consider that the industry, at the moment, gasps), or the precise agreements with Samsung (with which the collaboration is wide, from the Tensor chip to Wear OS), or again – and it is the reading proposed by Kuba – the intention to have multiple sensors from the same manufacturerso as to have a more similar processing of the “raw” images and consequently more coherent final results – photographs -.

THREE SONY AND A SAMSUNG PER PIXEL NOTEPAD

The code has reserved a window on the P7, a design code that could stand for Pipitthat is Pixel Fold or Notepad that is. Here the information is less precise: the developer was able to trace the names of the sensors, not their type. The smartphone would have a 50 MP Samsung ISOCELL GN1 (candidate for the role of main wide angle), a Sony IMX363 (the 12 MP main camera of Pixel 6a, so to speak), an IMX386 (the current ultra wide, also 12 MP , from Pixel 6) and an IMX355 (the 8MP sensor that Pixel 6 uses as a selfie camera).

AN ‘OLD’ KNOWLEDGE ON PIXEL TABLET

Traces of T6 in the Google code, an acronym that in all probability identifies Pixel Tablet. We recently had the opportunity to return to the project about which during the last I / O Google said very little, thanks to an indiscretion that also touched on the theme of cameras (two, one in front the other behind): they will not be very recent, he told himself, to keep costs down, but the rumor did not provide other details. The code takes care of it now, however confirming the information of the past few days.

On Pixel Tablet there would be two Sony IMX355 sensorsthat is the 8 megapixel selfie camera of Pixel 6 that Google will not propose again on Pixel 7. It will not be a recent sensor, defined or of great quality, but on a tablet the only thing that really matters at the end of the fair and the shooting quality for video calls, where an IMX355 might be enough. “It was probably chosen for the good compromise between quality (the one needed by a tablet, ed) and price”Kuba explained.

THE DEVICE OF DREAMS, WITH MANY RECENT SENSORS: WHAT IS IT?

Finally, there is room for a device that is difficult to identify, Lynx or L10a high-end Pixel with a 50MP ISOCELL GN1, probably the main sensor, side by side from the recent Sony IMX787. It is unusual to find the two in the same device, both quite recent, while Google usually combines the main camera with sensors that are not very fresh. Moreover, recent is the Sony IMX712 used as a selfie camera, indeed even unprecedented: it hasn’t even been announced.

ZTE Axon 40 Ultra and Nubia Z40S Pro are among the (few, still) products to use the Sony IMX787

Here, the idea of ​​Kuba is that Lynx is not a device destined for the market but one of testused in Mountain View to compare with a benchmark such as GN1 the capabilities of sensors not yet known or to be optimized on a software level such as the IMX787 or, even more so, the IMX712.