Although we didn’t find anything about Google’s Pixel 6 at Google IO 2021, based on Google’s flagship trends and rumours from authenticated sources we can assume Google to surprise us once again. It is expected Pixel 6 to come out by the end of the year, in November.

Google’s Pixel 6 is the first phone to have Android 12 before Google offers it to other users. There are a lot of things that people are looking forward to in Pixel 6 but Android 12 is what fans are desperately waiting for.

Some changes Android 12 will bring

• The snooze options are right in the notifications, making them more approachable.
• The media player is a little smaller making it easier to use both in a home and lock screen.
• There is a reduced bright colours option in the accessibility settings.
• Safety and Emergency setting have been moved to the main settings.
• You could dial 911 with 5 taps of the power button.
• A one-handed mode called silky home, just like Samsung’s One UI.

New features

• Supports vibrations with audio effect.
• Changing gesture control to make it easier to i=use Google photos.
• Two application opened together.
• The screenshot editor got some changes and can now be easily flicked away like any notification.
• Opening an app through a notification is much faster.
• Better support for multi-channel audio, now it is 24 from 8.

To sum it up these were some major things happening in Android 12. Google had focused much more on user-facing parts rather than on security and privacy like previous versions.

Now let us look at some other features of Pixel 6:

Camera

• Pixel 6 will probably have a rear camera with dual-lens.
• While Pixel 6 Pro will have a triple-lens camera.
• The main camera will have 50MP.
• Pixel 6 front side camera will have a 4K video record function.
• And it might be an under-display camera as Google does like to experiment but can’t be sure.

Battery

• The Pro version will have a 5000 mAh.
• It might support wireless charging.

Design

• We could expect colours such as peach, pink and sand on this one.
• It will have a curved display.
• The punch hole front camera will be central.
• The bezels will be thin.

Features

• Sources tell us about a fingerprint scanner in-screen, and glass made backside.
• The Pixel 6 may use an in-house chipset.
•  Pixel 6 could have UWB; a short-range communications function that lets devices talk to each other if they’re nearby.

The Price

The pricing strategy of Pixel flagships is difficult to guess as Pixel 4 and Pixel 3 were more on the pricey side but Pixel 5 was more of a budget-friendly phone. So we’d guess it to be somewhat AUS $1000.