These photos would have been taken with a Google "Pixel 3 Lite"

Rumors and speculation surrounding the leaked "Lite" version of Google's flagship product, Pixel 3, developed under the code name "Sargo", continued this week with the release of photos believed to have been taken with the company. device by the Russian blog Rozetked. The samples seem to have been shot in Ukraine, with at least two pictures highlighting St. Paul's Lutheran Cathedral in Odessa. Each also has a striking resemblance, in terms of quality, with what one might expect from the brand new Pixel branded high-end devices. This includes at least one image in which the lighting, background blur and zoom would have been improved via the Brand Portrait mode. Another image appears to have been taken from the base of the building, using Google's super-resolution zoom feature enhanced by Ai.

Context: As for the camera itself, the images would have been taken using the same Pixel 3 Lite ™. than the one that was filtered last week. This implies that the sensors used here are exactly the same as those found on the more expensive Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL handsets that Google launched at its annual Made by Google event in October. This would mean that they were taken with a 12-megapixel snapper with an aperture of f / 1.8 and a pixel size of 1.4 micron. In addition to these hardware details, the Pixel 3 Lite would be packaged with a Snapdragon 670 SoC backed up with 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage and no microSD card slot. A battery of 2 915 mAh with Quick Charge 4+ is then powered. The screen, meanwhile, is set at 5.56 inches, with a resolution of 2220 x 1080 and a pixel density of 444 dpi. In a speculative way, it will cost about $ 400 to $ 500 and should be announced in the first half of next year.

Of course, these are not the first images or the first details to filter on a variation of budget or mid-range on the family of devices Pixel 3 Google. However, there are many discrepancies between the reports and it is not clear if any of them is accurate. In addition, there are problems with the images of the devices themselves, so it is the recently published photos supposedly taken with this handset. The most suspicious is that Google's emblem on the bottom part of the back of this device on these photos does not seem entirely legitimate. It has been shown that it is indeed a circle with a missing piece instead of a complete "G". From a design standpoint, many details also seemed to reflect the fact that the device in question could also be a non-advertised pixel handset, as part of these apparent leaks. A two-tone white back plate was used with a glossy section on top, housing a single camera with a two-tone flash while the fingerprint scanner was placed just below the center one. Curves and rounded edges also seem to align with the language used by the search giant.

Impact: That being said, there is no way to verify, at the time of writing this article, whether the speculation or information disclosed is correct. These images look as accurate and detailed as one might think from a budget-limited device that, at least in the camera department, forgot to remember that it it was actually a budget-reduced device. If he's planning to launch something like this smartphone, Google could prevent it from being revealed as a surprise for its 2019 I / O event. However, it does not necessarily make sense that Google did not launched a new mid-range phone alongside its other handsets at its own annual hardware event.