Google’s Pixel 3 XL just leaked in Russia: PHOTOS, SPECS

Google’s Pixel 3 showed up
on Telegram, the messaging service, in an unboxing posted earlier
this month.
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• Google’s upcoming smartphone, the Pixel 3, remains
  unannounced. It’s
  expected to debut on October 4.
• In the meantime, the phone has repeatedly shown up in
  leaks.
• The latest leak comes from Russia, where one blog
  already got its hands on what looks to be a final version of
  the Pixel 3 XL.

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Google’s next smartphone is nearly here — at least that’s our
best guess based on extensive leaks about the upcoming iPhone
rival.

We already know that
the phone has a notch, similar to the iPhone X, and otherwise
looks very similar to the Pixel 2 before it:

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We know that there’s still no headphone jack, and the fingerprint
scanner is still on the back of the phone. We know that the specs
are an expected bump over last year’s Pixel, but not a huge jump.
We know that there’s a standard Pixel 3 and an “XL” version,
that’s larger.

We even know the date it’s supposed to launch: Google itself

outed the Pixel 3’s launch date as October 4. And this week,
we got an even closer look at the Pixel 3 XL through
a Russian blog named Rozetked.

The site claims to have a final version of the Pixel 3 XL, which
it’s putting through the paces.

There’s not a lot of new info that we didn’t already know, but we
did get a look at some sample photos that the Pixel 3 XL is
capable of producing — like this one:

And this one:

These are especially important in the case of the Pixel line
given the incredibly high bar set by previous Pixel phones — the
Pixel 2
still has the best camera available in any current
smartphone, including the iPhone X.

The Pixel 3 is expected to improve upon the Pixel line’s best
feature. All we know about the phone’s camera thus far is that
it’s likely to be a single lens setup rather than the once
rumored dual-lens camera. 

Unfortunately, we won’t know specifics about the Pixel 3 until
Google announces them. For now, we’ve got this gentleman’s Instagram
feed and these
beautiful new photos of the Pixel 3 XL to gawk at.

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.