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The Pixel 9 Pro is coming next month, but in a new teaser video Google has given us a sneak peak of the phone's final design, and it's not pretty. Back in January the first unofficial renders of the Pixel 9 Pro appeared, showing the phone's possible new design. Though they came from a reliable source, the new camera island was so butt-ugly that I for one assumed that the renders must have been of some sort of prototype design, such was the 'tacked-on' look of the phone's camera bump. The final retail phone would surely have this integrated more neatly into the rest of the back panel, right?
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Wrong. The renders were correct, the phone featured in them wasn't a prototype, and that hideous camera wart actually got the official sign-off from management.
As for what the bump contains, well that's likely to be a triple camera array with a trio of 50MP modules. The primary, wide-angle camera looks set to be based around Samsung's 1/1.31" GNK sensor, while both the ultrawide and telephoto modules could uses a Sony IMX858 sensor measuring 1/2.51" - itself slightly larger than the 1/2.8" Sony IMX386 chip used in the Pixel 8 Pro. Judging by the slightly rectangular lens cut-out in the camera bump, the telephoto module could also use a periscope lens, potentially enabling 5x optical zoom. The Pixel 9 series is also said to be the first Pixel generation to enable 8K video recording.
We'll have to wait until Google's official Pixel 9 Pro launch on August 13 to know more.