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Google reportedly planning Pixel 3 for October, and the XL model will have a notch

The Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL will be going to be debut in October and retain Verizon as the exclusive US carrier, according to a source.

The XL-sized Pixel 3 will reportedly have a notch at the top of its display. That is going to come up as a surprise when you consider all the changes which the Giant company Google has made to make Android P more friendly to display cutouts. It will feature a “nearly edge-to-edge screen” and a chin at the bottom.

The regular Pixel 3 will resemble the current Pixel 2, according to a source. So expect it to have a larger size of bezels than the XL yet again. That is so disappointing, and it might not look as impressive next to the rest of the 2018 field of top-tier smartphones. It’d be really nice if both models shared the same sort of design, but that hasn’t happened since the original Pixel. Earlier this week, images of purported screen protectors for the Pixel 3 XL and Pixel 3 were shared online.

Both models will go to have stereo speakers, and Google will continue to ignore the trend of dual cameras on the back of it. The company is apparently sticking with a single rear camera on both the smartphones. The Pixel 3 XL will have two camera lenses on the front which is inside that notch, but Bloomberg doesn’t indicate how the secondary sensor will be used at that point in time.

The team that Google acquired from HTC last year for the cost of $1.1 billion is said to be playing a major role in the development of both Pixel 3 devices, and Google is in touch with Foxconn to handle their assembly. If that happens, Google will no longer merely be overseeing design and then handing off the responsibility of manufacturing those products to a company like LG (Pixel 2 XL) or HTC (Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2.

Pixel sales are still less than Apple and Samsung smartphones in America. After buying up a smartphone hardware team, Google must be hoping that the third time’s the charm.