GoKawiilTL;DR Google’s been preparing a new “Pixel Glow” notification system for the Pixel 11 series.
Now a new leak claims that Pixel 11 Pro models could drop the infrared thermometer in favor of an RGB LED array.
While smaller than the Nothing Glyph display, Google’s system could enable similar interactions.
With May now upon us, we are in peak Google season: I/O is only a couple weeks away, and then we’ve got just a few more months to go before the new Pixel 11 phones will be here. Thanks to some early CAD renders, we already started putting together our expectations for what changes might impact the new hardware, and now a new source is shining the spotlight on what could be some of the biggest ones we can expect from this year’s models.
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As part of a massive Pixel 11 leak, the Mystic Leaks Telegram channel shares that Google is abandoning its infrared thermometer this year. And while we won’t have that sensor on the back of the Pixel 11 Pro, Pro XL, nor Pro Fold, Google’s not leaving this space blank — instead, the camera bar will now house a Nothing Glyph-like RGB LED array.
Both of those are ideas we’ve heard before, but are presented here with more detail and clarity than was previously available. The loss of the thermometer was something we really started anticipating after the publication of those CAD-based renders, with models like Pixel 11 Pro and Pro XL not showing any obvious signs of a thermometer.
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Google introduced the thermometer with the Pixel 8 Pro, and it’s managed to stick around these past few generations. While we did find some interesting use cases for it, this probably went tragically underutilized, and we doubt anyone will be too surprised to see it go.
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