Google may be about to increase the colour choices for its Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Professional. Right now the Pixel workforce’s social media channels started posting teases for a brand new mint inexperienced shade that will likely be out there subsequent Thursday, January twenty fifth. The messaging isn’t precisely delicate. This hue will apparently be unique to the Google Retailer and Google Fi, so carriers and retailers like Amazon and Finest Purchase are unlikely to supply it.
The binary code in Google’s social posts interprets to “recent yr, recent drop.”
There have been indicators that Google has deliberate for a mint Pixel 8 and eight Professional all alongside; it sells a mint silicone case for the telephone that isn’t a match for the prevailing {hardware} shade decisions. And some months in the past, no less than briefly, the Google Retailer web site confirmed that case with a inexperienced digicam bar, principally confirming {that a} gentle inexperienced model of the gadget had been deliberate however delayed for unknown causes. Possibly Google all the time supposed to carry it again as a approach of giving gross sales a jolt within the new yr.
This wouldn’t be the primary time that Google has added a brand new shade to the combination for its Pixel telephones a number of months after launch; it launched a “barely blue” model of the Pixel 4A in 2020, for instance. We’ve reached out to Google for extra particulars.
Google continues to aggressively low cost each Pixel 8 telephones, with the 8 Professional at the moment on sale for $200 off (bringing it to $799) and the common Pixel 8 all the way down to $549. These financial savings will apparently stick round via subsequent week, which may entice some cellular customers into springing for the brand new mint shade.