Google Pixel 2 The Release Date Set For UK

It's been six months since Google launched the Pixel and the handset still holds up well against this year's lineup of Android flagships. That said, Google will need to keep innovating if it wants the Pixel brand to remain relevant and a worthy alternative to Apple and Samsung.

Google is of course aware of this, and being the case the company is said to be planning two new phones for release in 2017. The Pixel 2 and Pixel XL 2 – thought to be currently being developed under the code names "Walleye" and "Muskie" – are likely to break cover toward the end of the year, at which point Google will have the latest handset fromFor now details regarding the Pixel 2 are thin on the ground, beyond the fact that we know it is definitely in the works. Still, one or two titbits have begun to trickle through, the best of which we've rounded up for you below.

Google Pixel 2: Release date

Rick Osterloh, senior vice president of hardware at Google, confirmed in March that the Google Pixel would get a successor in 2017, although exactly when isn't yet certain. Apple to contend with.Google launched the Pixel and Pixel XL in October, so we can assume by the typical smartphone release cycle that that Pixel 2 will be launched sometime in Q3 this year. This puts its release window around the time we expect the iPhone 8 to arrive on the market.

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