I cover smartphone launches, and Google's August event is the one that has me excited

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Google plans a hardware event for August 13 — two months earlier than its usual product launches for the fall. Here's why that's a bigger deal than you might have realized.

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[ZeroChill]

No significant camera hardware updates, mediocre chip iteration, likely the same old crap optical fingerprint sensor and a kind of fugly change to the camera bar. Why is this the most exciting thing? The OnePlus 13 will probably be trying way harder than this to impress.

 

[jimv71883]

No significant camera hardware updates, mediocre chip iteration, likely the same old crap optical fingerprint sensor and a kind of fugly change to the camera bar. Why is this the most exciting thing? The OnePlus 13 will probably be trying way harder than this to impress.

I have a Pixel 8 Pro and I never upgraded after just one year but a "Pro" model that is smaller would be great. One of my complaints about the Pixel 8 Pro is how big it is. The battery degradation has also been pretty bad so I don't think it would last an entire two years.