What To Expect From Google’s 2026 Pixel Hardware Launch Event

It’s that clip of year: On Wednesday, Google is group to big its yearly Made by Google hardware motorboat arena for Pixel gadgets. Google itself has already teased caller slab-style and foldable Pixel smartphones, but leaks besides bespeak that nan institution could denote updated watches, a caller colour for acquainted earbuds, and possibly a marque caller AirTag-like point tracker.

However, unusually, Google’s arena is taking spot successful nan evening: It kicks disconnected connected Wednesday astatine 6PM ET / 3PM PT alternatively of successful nan early day aliases mid-morning, for illustration galore different tech events. And this clip it has a personage big successful Trevor Noah.

Even much strange: As noted by 9to5Google, nan Google Store homepage has a Pixel 11 preorder countdown that will extremity astatine 10AM ET connected Wednesday — which is galore hours earlier than nan motorboat arena itself. That could mean that each of nan specifications astir Google’s caller devices will beryllium officially revealed agelong earlier nan institution hosts nan general motorboat event.

Here’s what we expect to spot Google denote this week. If you want to watch nan arena live, you tin catch it connected YouTube.

Google has already hinted astatine its caller phones while promoting nan event, including shadowy glimpses of updated Pro and foldable phones. But nan caller smartphones could beryllium mostly iterative updates.

Google is expected to denote 4 caller smartphones: nan Pixel 11, nan Pixel 11 Pro, nan Pixel 11 Pro XL, and nan Pixel 11 Pro Fold. Based connected leaked images, they should look mostly nan aforesaid arsenic nan Pixel 10 lineup, though it appears they’ll person camera bars that are achromatic each nan measurement crossed and colors that might rule.

Perhaps nan astir notable ocular quality will beryllium a rainbow glowy ray connected nan camera bar, which Google has already shown disconnected for nan Pixel 11 Pro. The institution hasn’t yet specified what it’ll do aliases what it’s called. But codification successful Google’s contacts app spotted by 9to5Google indicates that it will beryllium called “HiLight” and, astatine slightest for that contacts app, HiLight tin beryllium customized pinch different colors to bespeak erstwhile definite group telephone you. Presumably, nan ray will activity successful immoderate measurement pinch different apps arsenic well. Based connected a translator of a leaked Pixel 11 Pro Fold image, HiLight will besides ray up erstwhile you talk pinch Google’s Gemini AI.

Inside nan phones, it seems apt that they’ll beryllium powered by a caller Tensor G6 chip. It’s rumored that nan caller spot will use TSMC’s 2nm process, which is expected to bring capacity and powerfulness ratio gains. If it does motorboat pinch a 2nm chip, nan Pixel 11 bid will beryllium the first smartphones connected nan marketplace to do so, and perchance by a hair; Apple’s spot for its adjacent Pro phones that presumably motorboat successful September is besides expected to usage nan 2nm process.

Google is rumored to raise nan starting retention of nan guidelines Pixel 11 and nan guidelines Pixel 11 Pro to 256GB, up from nan 128GB level pinch nan Pixel 10 and Pixel 10 Pro. However, early Pixel 11 Pro listings have stated that nan Pixel 11 Pro will person 12GB of RAM. If accurate, that would beryllium down from nan 16GB of RAM recovered successful nan Pixel 10 Pro lineup.

And expect nan full Pixel lineup to person a higher starting price, arsenic a Google VP precocious told 9to5Google that nan Pixel family will get pricing “adjustments” owed to nan representation crisis.

We already cognize that Google has manufactured astatine slightest 1 instrumentality called nan Pixel Watch 5 acknowledgment to, uh, Borderlands creator Randy Pitchford. In a May station that included 2 images, Pitchford said that a friend recovered nan watch underwater while scuba diving. But recently, Google briefly teased nan watch for an August 12th launch, truthful we should spot much soon.

Leaked renders of the Pixel Watch 5 bespeak that it whitethorn travel successful colors including black, polished silver, yellowish gold, and a brass-y color, though nan wide creation looks rather akin to nan Pixel Watch 4. Specs obtained by MyMobiles opportunity that nan caller watch comes successful 41 and 45mm surface sizes pinch artillery life rated astatine 30 and 40 hours, respectively, matching nan Pixel Watch 4. MyMobiles says that nan Pixel Watch 5 will get 64GB of storage, which is double nan 32GB of retention disposable previously.

On nan package side, trading materials obtained by MyMobiles propose that Gemini Intelligence — which Google revealed earlier this twelvemonth for Android phones — will beryllium a large characteristic for nan Pixel Watch 5 this year. One evident trading descent calls Gemini Intelligence a “personal, proactive assistant” that tin proactively aboveground adjuvant accusation for you. A characteristic called “Proactive Suggestions” will besides beryllium capable to thief you reply to messages by recommending “context-aware replies” based connected a conversation. The trading materials besides committedness that nan caller watch will person Google’s “most meticulous slumber search yet.”

However, for illustration pinch nan Pixel phones, expect higher prices. MyMobiles reports that nan 41mm Wi-Fi exemplary whitethorn commencement astatine $399, up from nan Pixel Watch 4’s $349.99, while nan 45mm Wi-Fi exemplary could commencement astatine $429, up from $399.99.

Google first launched nan Pixel Buds Pro 2 in 2024, but 2 years on, it seems arsenic if nan institution is conscionable going to motorboat a caller colour alternatively of refreshing nan product.

An evident trading image leaked by Evan Blass shows caller earbuds successful a bully oliva greenish colour that matches different renders that Blass and others person surfaced of nan Pixel 11 lineup. But nan headphones themselves different look conscionable for illustration nan Buds Pro 2 — and they person apparently already appeared connected a Google Play rewards page pinch nan sanction “Pixel Buds Pro 2.”

I conjecture there’s ever adjacent twelvemonth for nan Buds Pro 3.

Google whitethorn besides motorboat thing marque new: Pixel Tag, an AirTag-like point tracker. Based connected an image 9to5Google recently obtained, it has an oval shape, meaning it could look a small spot different than Apple’s information AirTag.

Presumably, nan Pixel Tag will play nicely pinch Android’s Find Hub network. A instrumentality translator of a now-removed online listing said nan locator will link pinch nan “Find My Device” network, which was nan sanction of nan web earlier Google changed it to Find Hub. But elaborate specs and an expected value haven’t leaked conscionable yet.

Some leaks for caller Googlebook laptops person besides cropped up recently, but erstwhile it first announced nan Googlebooks, Google said they would beryllium launching in nan fall. Google is besides moving connected smart glasses and Android XR glasses, but those are scheduled for nan fall, too.

Sure, Google could propulsion curveballs. But that hardware will astir apt get afloat reveals astatine a later date.