Google has teased us with a sneak peak of the Google Pixel 11 sequence of smartphones forward of the August 12 Made by Google occasion, and it seems the handset will debut a brand new lighting characteristic throughout the digital camera bump.
A video posted on the Pixel 11 pre-order web page reveals that new golden body, in addition to a glowing orb subsequent to the digital camera sensors that modifications color. That may be a brand new model new innovation for this 12 months’s fashions, however Google isn’t commenting on its function simply but.
As 9to5Google factors out it seems to be like a model of the spinning seashore ball from Apple’s macOS. It’s additionally not clear whether or not that is additionally the digital camera flash and flashlight or a separate characteristic.
Nonetheless, the so-called Pixel Glow characteristic has beforehand appeared throughout the Android 17 beta, the place it’s described as a characteristic that enables individuals to “keep within the second with out shedding contact.” The Pixel Glow “makes use of delicate gentle and color on the again of your machine to tell you of necessary exercise when it’s face down,” Google’s beta factors out.
The beta additionally says the lights might be consumer configurable and may very well be customised to gentle up in a sure method when favorite contacts name, or when the consumer is talking with Gemini AI. The beta code suggests it’s Google’s tackle Nothing’s Glyph bar which lights up in numerous methods to sign totally different cell notifications.
Google additionally just lately revealed a brand new line of Googlebook laptops made by manufacturing companions. Every of which is able to characteristic a ‘Glowbar’, which guarantees to be each an figuring out branding characteristic akin to Apple’s glowing brand. The exact function of that Glowbar has not been revealed but, however Google has confirmed there’ll be precise performance related to these lights.
All is prone to be revealed on the Made by Google occasion on August 12.
