Google wasn’t precisely delicate with its teases earlier this week, and now the corporate has confirmed that it’s launching each the Pixel 8 and eight Professional in a brand new mint inexperienced coloration. The newest coloration choice is a bit muted in comparison with the “bay” blue 8 Professional. However in the event you’re a fan of the smaller common Pixel 8, that is your first likelihood at a coloration past the very secure black, hazel, and rose gold choices which have been obtainable for the reason that cellphone shipped again in October.
For each telephones, mint is just obtainable with the bottom 128GB of storage. Should you want greater than that, you’ve gotta persist with the unique colours. Google despatched a pattern of the 8 Professional over to me, and a pamphlet included within the bundle describes mint as “impressed by the colourful hue you’d discover in nature” and “a luminous coloration that invitations the thoughts right into a state of energizing calmness.” Sure, there’s extra. It’s “a coloration that’s equal elements daring, targeted, and optimistic for a contemporary new yr, and a brisker model of you.” Proper. No matter you say, Google design workforce.
Seeing it in individual, daring isn’t precisely the phrase that involves thoughts. In most indoor gentle, mint can look virtually white. Hit it with some pure gentle, and the colour comes out a bit extra. It’s tasteful, however in the event you had been hoping for a saturated seafoam green-type end, this isn’t that. On the very least, it’s giving consumers extra selection, with each Pixel 8 fashions now obtainable in 4 completely different colours. I’d be curious to see whether or not the shiny glass on the smaller customary 8 makes mint pop a bit greater than it does on the matte 8 Professional.
Personally, the blue remains to be far and away my favourite as a result of it’s probably the most colourful of the lot — and that’s one thing sorely missing from numerous “professional” smartphones nowadays. However in the event you choose a much less in-your-face choice, possibly mint’s simply the factor. Most telephones inevitably discover their approach into circumstances, anyway. (Google’s already bought mint coated there.)
The mint Pixel 8 and eight Professional might be completely obtainable from the Google Retailer — carriers and retailers gained’t be getting them — and you may also buy both cellphone by means of Google Fi. US prospects will be capable of purchase the brand new coloration beginning on January twenty fifth. Along with releasing the brand new coloration, Google can also be detailing the most recent characteristic drop for its Pixel units, which you’ll learn extra about right here. In the meantime, the leaks for this yr’s Google telephones have already begun.
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