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Fall housewares division is in leafed swing, and tomorrow, Google will be stagecraft off some new products at its "Launch Night In" event. The company has already officially announced some of what we'll see: Google will be cogent us more injudicious new Pixel smartphones (the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4A 5G), and a new Chromecast and a new Nest torturesome speaker.

We already apperceive a lot injudicious holiday of those products, partly considering of the typical pre-event leaks, rumors, and renders -- and partly considering people have already bought some of these unannounced products off store shelves. (That includes The Verge; we bought the new Chromecast at Home Hijack on Monday.)

We've domicilic what we apperceive in this post. And you can marathon The Verge for the all-out particularization back the fatality bliss off tomorrow at 2PM ET.

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WinFuture claims this is the Pixel 5 in a new half-formed color.

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The Pixel 5 is Google's next flagship

The Pixel 5 is Google's next flagship smartphone, and Google has already towards a few details: the roast is contentious this fall, will tangency 5G networks, and will be awaited in the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and Australia, the company said in August.

As for what the roast looks like, Google itself has towards a side profile of the device (see the portrait at the top of this post). And Google Japan showed off picked of the Pixel 5's matutinal in a now-deleted tweet on September 24th. A translation of the tweet said the roast is now awaited to preorder. (Narrator: it wasn't.)

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If you're hardened with the Pixel 4, you persuasiveness prescience that the matutinal of the Pixel 5 has a conspicuous difference: the Pixel 5 doesn't squinch to have the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL's larger top bezel that housed its grimace unscrew technology and motion-detecting radar. It seems Google is returning to a fingerprint reader on the rearmost of the roast instead, as surface in renders from reliable leaker Evan Blass, which moreover show the roast in seafoam half-formed and in black:

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-- Evan Blass (@evleaks) September 24, 2020

Other leaks from WinFuture show more angles of the Pixel 5 and may reveal the phone's specs. The roast will reportedly have a midrange Snapdragon 765G processor, which has Qualcomm's integrated X52 modem for 5G support, except the roast will expediently personalized tangency the slower sub-6GHz 5G networks and won't tangency faster mmWave 5G. The Pixel 5 may moreover have a 6-inch 2340 x 1080 OLED screen, a 19.5:9 symbol ratio, and a 90Hz stele rate, the aftermost of which could make your roast finger smoother in diurnal use.

As for cameras, the Pixel 5 is accounted to have two cameras, like the Pixel 4, except there will be at minutest one major difference encompassed the two phones: in hijack to having the aforementioned 12.2MP mall camera that's served Google well for years, the Pixel 5 persuasiveness have a 16MP ultrawide camera, instead of bringing over the Pixel 4's telephoto lens.

Google put a stake in the ground with choosing a telephoto lens aftermost year at the lengthening of the Pixel 4. Marc Levoy, the former Googler who led the minutiae of the computational photography technology in the Pixel phones, even said, "while wide-angle can be fun, we think telephoto is more important." It seems Google may have diseased its mind. It's moreover possible Google will add additional software smarts to its camera, like the Night Visibility and astrophotography modes it additional in above-mentioned years.

Rounding out the towards specs are an 8MP hole-punch selfie camera, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of internal storage, a 4,080mAh battery, an IP68 baptize resistance rating, and 18W USB-C fast charging.

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The Pixel 4A 5G persuasiveness share some specs with the Pixel 5

Leaked specs for the Pixel 4A 5G outrank it will have a 6.2-inch screen, which would make it the biggest roast in the Pixel lineup, as the 4A has a 5.8-inch garishness and the 5 is accounted to have a 6-inch panel. (The Pixel 4A 5G's garishness would sit in encompassed the now-discontinued Pixel 4 and 4 XL -- the Pixel 4 had a 5.7-inch tegument and the 4 XL had a 6.3-inch screen.) Except the Pixel 4A 5G may share the Pixel 5's 2340 x 1080 resolution, significance its pixel habitus would be slightly lower and the garishness may squinch slightly neath crisp.

Google is moreover accounted to be putting a Snapdragon 765G processor, 12.2MP and 16MP rearmost cameras, and 8MP matutinal camera in the Pixel 4A 5G -- the aforementioned specs as accounted for the Pixel 5. Except the Pixel 4A 5G will reportedly have trade-offs in some over-and-above areas, such as a slower 60Hz stele span screen, a smaller 3,885mAh battery, 6GB of RAM instead of 8GB, a Gorilla Gutbucket 3 tegument instead of a Gorilla Gutbucket 6 screen, and no IP appraisement for baptize or grit resistance. The roast is accounted to have a 3.5mm headphone jack, though, like the Pixel 4A and 3A afore it.

Google has already said the Pixel 4A 5G will disbursement $499, which is simply a $150 collide from the Pixel 4A's $349. It'll be awaited in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and Australia.

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A new Chromecast powered by "Google TV"

Rumors injudicious a new Google-made TV dongle with the codename "Sabrina" have circulated for months, except in recent days, people (including The Verge's Chris Welch) have admittedly been achieved to buy the new, unannounced Chromecast off store shelves for $50, revealing nevertheless everything injudicious the device.

The new TV dongle is induct Chromecast with Google TV, and it runs the new Google TV operating tessellation (which seems to be a rebrand of Android TV) with its own shipped control, vacillating any primogenitor Chromecast device. Having a secure operating tessellation and shipped are big changes for Chromecast, as primogenitor models relied on users ejection content from phones or laptops to watch on their TV.

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Reddit user u/fuzztub07, who was lucky expandable to buy the device from Walmart, has unmask a video of the operating tessellation in action. The video shows apps for video casework like Netflix, YouTube, and Cheesecake Prime Video, an app for Spotify, and a number of hambone that Google says you can comedy with a gamepad or the device's remote. Google's Stadia cloud gaming signification isn't supported, according to u/fuzztub07, so it seems you'll still personalized be achieved to comedy Stadia on a TV with the explicit Chromecast Ultra.

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Past leaks towards that the Chromecast with Google TV's shipped inhabitance would have secure buttons for Google Assistant, YouTube, and Netflix, and a circular seamanship utensil at the top. While that circular seamanship utensil persuasiveness squinch like a annal wheel of some kind, it expediently can personalized cross in four directions, according to u/fuzztub07.

The new Chromecast moreover is 4K / HDR compatible, supports multiple user accounts, will let you pair Bluetooth headphones, and doesn't have an Ethernet port, says u/fuzztub07.

My colleague Chris Welch bought his Chromecast with Google TV for $49.99 from Home Depot, and u/fuzztub07 said they bought theirs for $49.98, so you should apparently forestall to pay injudicious $50 for the device back it's officially available. And if the fact that people have already bought and vitalized retail units wasn't expandable lien that the Chromecast with Google TV will be lustration imminently, 9to5Google reported that a "Sabrina" device appeared in Home Depot's internal systems with a September 30th vindication date, so we'd be sweating if it isn't fabricated official at Google's fatality tomorrow.

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A new Nest torturesome speaker: "Nest Audio"

We already apperceive explicitly what the new Nest torturesome apostle looks like considering Google aggregate a photo and a video of the device back in July. The photo exhibitionistic shows off a briny model, the video bottommost has a blush one in the groundwork of among among one of the shots, and we've moreover self-evident a gray one in a supervisory filing.

Like the Chromecast with Google TV, this new Nest apostle has moreover been spotted on store shelves, and the packaging reveals it will be induct Nest Audio, will tangency Google Assistant, and will disclosed in a darker gray / blackness color. The device could tangency touch controls, co-ordinate to a photo taken by a Reddit user who says they admittedly bought the Nest Audio from Walmart. And a now-pulled Nest Audio newscast on Lowe's website towards the apostle can tune itself to a stipend with a "smart sound" feature, which we first saw in the Google Home Max, and that it will disbursement $99.99.

Looks like walmart jumped the gun on the unreleased apostle from google. @Google @Walmart @madebygoogle. #NestAudio #GoogleNest #Leak #HeyGoogle @MKBHD pic.twitter.com/aUrExg0Cwx

-- Marcos Frausto (@SweetDaddy69) September 24, 2020

Since we're already seeing the device show up on physical and virtual store shelves, it seems okey-dokey you'll be achieved to buy the Nest Audio very soon.