Notification LEDs went retired of manner and their functionality was replaced by always-on displays. But tin this classical diagnostic marque a comeback with the powerfulness of AI? Google wants to find out.
We are referring to the caller HiLight diagnostic that sits beside the rear camera lenses of the Pixel 11 trio. This activates erstwhile you enactment the telephone face-down – it tin notify you of an incoming telephone from a preferred interaction and it besides lights up erstwhile talking to Gemini.
HiLight is simply a notification LED for the property of AI
Speaking of Gemini, Google is launching a much susceptible mentation for phones (and soon, smartwatches) called Gemini Intelligence. It enjoys the accrued compute powerfulness of the caller Tensor G6 – the archetypal smartphone chipset to travel retired of TSMC’s 2nm fabs and the 2nd since Google parted ways with Samsung.
Ironically, it is precisely AI that caused a downgrade – past twelvemonth Pixel Pros had 16GB of RAM, careless of storage. This year, they commencement astatine 12GB of RAM for the basal 256GB configuration and spell up to 16GB for the 512GB and 1TB variants. Oh yes, the tiny Pixel Pro present starts astatine 256GB (that’s a bully thing, since the 128GB Pixel 10 Pro utilized slower UFS 3.1 storage). The G6 is cooled by a vapor enclosure and is paired with a Titan M3 information spot for post-quantum encryption.
The Google Pixel 11 Pro features a 6.3” LTPO (120Hz) OLED show – this puts it successful the aforesaid class arsenic the iPhone 17 Pro and the Galaxy S26. It has a 4,850mAh artillery wrong arsenic Google is inactive reluctant to pursuit precocious milliamp-hour numbers. Like its predecessor, it supports 30W wired charging and magnetic Pixelsnap wireless charging.
Google Pixel 11 Pro
The larger Google Pixel 11 Pro XL has a 6.8” LTPO (120Hz) OLED show instead, but the important summation successful assemblage size comes with a humble bump successful artillery capableness – 5,115mAh. This is really a downgrade from past year’s Pro XL, which had a 5,200mAh battery, but it’s inactive somewhat supra Galaxy S26 Ultra’s 5,000mAh battery.
Google is betting connected the accrued powerfulness ratio of the Tensor G6 chipset to connection longer artillery beingness – this was a anemic spot for the 10 Pro models. Anyway, the Pro XL supports faster 45W wired charging.
Google Pixel 11 Pro XL
While it mightiness beryllium hard to archer the Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro from the outside, the Pro exemplary has importantly amended cameras – and it shares them with its Pro XL sibling. This includes a 50MP main with a ample sensor and OIS, a 48MP 5x periscope (also with OIS) and a 48MP ultra-wide with an autofocus lens.
The Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold besides features the HiLight LED connected its camera island. This land is besides location to a 48MP main camera (OIS), a 5x 10.8MP periscope (OIS) and a 10.5MP ultra-wide.
The Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold features Gemini Intelligence and the HiLight LED
For this generation, Google accrued the screen surface size from 6.4” to 6.5”. It’s a insignificant bump and the show inactive has a gangly facet ratio. The interior show remains astatine 8.0”.
The Pixel 11 Pro Fold has a 6.5” screen and an 8.0” interior display
The telephone is rated IP68 similar earlier – this is arsenic precocious arsenic particulate ingress extortion goes and the telephone volition besides past being submerged successful water.
The Pro Fold mislaid much artillery capableness than the Pro XL – the caller exemplary lone has 4,800mAh. This is beneath the 5,015mAh standing of its predecessor and besides beneath the Galaxy Z Fold8, which launched with a 5,000mAh battery. Anyway, adjacent with this downgrade, Google promises the aforesaid 24-hour endurance arsenic it did past year.
The 2 Pro models connection a antithetic colour palette than the vanilla Pixel 11 – they travel successful Dune, Light Fog, Midnight Haze and Pine. Meanwhile, the foldable comes successful Midnight and Pine.
Color options for the Pixel 11 Pro, 11 Pro XL and 11 Pro Fold
The Pixel 11 Pro, 11 Pro XL and 11 Pro Fold are connected pre-order starting today. We volition station a abstracted nonfiction with a pricing breakdown for the caller models.
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