The smartphone manufacture is successful a weird spot these days. Throughout 2022, we've seen atrocious quality for manufacturers. Even arsenic immoderate great Android phones deed the market, shipments continued to diminution amid economical turbulence and consumers holding onto older devices for longer. These unsmooth waters are bound to shingle up plans for aboriginal devices, arsenic we've recently seen with Samsung's plan to emulate Apple's occurrence successful the high-end. It looks similar Samsung isn't unsocial successful this contention to bushed the iPhone, though. A leaked imaginable roadmap for Pixels done 2025 suggests Google has immoderate large ideas successful store for its aboriginal phones.

The folks astatine Android Authority published a leaked mentation of Google's plans for the adjacent 3 years of hardware, starting with 2 caller devices for aboriginal outpouring and starring each the mode into the autumn of 2025. As with immoderate leak — particularly 1 arsenic acold retired arsenic this — it's important to instrumentality each of this with a monolithic atom of salt. This roadmap shows the institution looking to grow its Pixel lineup dramatically, each portion diminishing its absorption connected lower-end, much affordable models. It's surely a gamble for Google, but if this study is correct, we could beryllium looking astatine a implicit reinvention of its smartphones.

2023: Pixel 7a, Pixel Fold, and the Pixel 8 series

Let's commencement with 2023, though, which lone contains a mates of surprises. Android Authority's study begins with a Google I/O-timed motorboat for the Pixel 7a and the Pixel Fold. This is successful enactment with caller rumors for the company's first-gen foldable, each portion fitting the accustomed timeframe for the A-series. Both phones person seen important leaks successful caller months, with the Pixel 7a sounding similar a large replacement for its predecessor. Despite the rumored summation of wireless charging and a 90Hz display, expect the 7a to instrumentality astatine its $449 terms tag for yet different year.

As for the Fold, it sounds similar those reports of an $1,800 terms tag were so true. Expect to ammunition retired for Google's futuristic foldable — particularly if you privation to spot further refinements down the road.

The Pixel 8 and 8 Pro volition deed shelves adjacent fall, and though we don't cognize galore specifics, it sounds similar different procreation of tiny changes for Google's flagship series. Perhaps the 1 astonishment constituent is simply a smaller signifier origin for the Pixel 8; we've already seen the Pixel 7 slim down from its predecessor, and this would beryllium different measurement successful that tiny flagship direction. The Pixel 8 Pro would clasp its larger size.

2024: Pixel 8a and the Pixel 9 series

Still with us? Great, due to the fact that it's successful 2024 wherever things commencement to get analyzable — and, successful this writer's opinion, a small fuzzy. First, Google is unsure whether it plans to motorboat a Pixel 8a (codenamed "akita"), oregon if it would determination the lineup to a biannual merchandise schedule. It's our archetypal motion of the institution trying to reflector Apple's strategy with the iPhone SE, and frankly, it's a unspeakable plan.

By each accounts, the A-series has been a monolithic occurrence for Google — successful fact, it was the Pixel 3a that truly got the shot rolling for the company. Pulling backmost connected this bid to absorption connected much costly flagships is definite to frustrate a dedicated instrumentality basal of A-series buyers. Reportedly, a Pixel 8a motorboat each comes down to however the Pixel 7a sells, but if it does marque an quality successful 2024, beryllium acceptable for a terms hike. Although this roadmap details thing astir the phone's specs, it'd spot a terms hike up to $500.

Meanwhile, the Pixel 9 bid is acceptable to expand. In summation to a regular Pixel 9 (no codename connected this) and the Pixel 9 Pro ("komodo"), Google wants to motorboat a tiny mentation of the Pixel 9 Pro. At 6.3" this exemplary (codenamed "caiman") would efficaciously beryllium the size of the existent Pixel 7, but with each of the extras that often permission users opting for the larger model. It's yet different Apple-inspired move, arsenic Google looks to pursuit the occurrence of phones similar the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max.

Oh, and arsenic for a imaginable Fold successor? Google has a second-gen exemplary successful the pipeline — nary astonishment determination — but depending connected however the Pixel Fold does successful 2023, it could get scrapped altogether. Considering however unsmooth the company's first-gen hardware usually arrives and the $1,800 terms tag, it's hard to spot however the Pixel Fold ends up a income success, but you ne'er know. That's a question for erstwhile hardware yet lands connected store shelves.

2025: A clamshell Pixel Fold and the Pixel 10 series

Finally, a peek into what 2025 could look like. Of each the elements successful this report, it's important to attack this lineup with the astir skepticism. It's astir 3 years distant and offers 2 diverging paths for the institution to take, which means thing is possible.

In some scenarios, Google wants to motorboat 4 flagship phones, but what the lineup looks similar depends connected yet different foldable. This time, it's a Galaxy Z Flip-esque Pixel Fold, acceptable to motorboat successful the autumn of 2025. That's astir six years aft Samsung's archetypal clamshell device, giving 1 of Google's rivals the accidental to iterate connected the conception for 7 generations by the clip this arrives.

It's besides up successful the air. If Google does motorboat its Pixel Flip (for deficiency of a amended codename), it would get buoyed by a modular Pixel 10 and 2 Pixel 10 Pros disposable successful larger and smaller sizes. If the clamshell instrumentality gets scrapped, it'd beryllium replaced with a larger modular Pixel 10 — deliberation the iPhone 14 Plus. It's an unusual move, considering caller sound surrounding however poorly Apple's Mini replacement has sold. It's uncommon to spot anyone online clamoring for a Pixel 7 Pro-sized exemplary without the telephoto lens and different Pro-exclusive features, but possibly its stance successful the Android marketplace could pb to a antithetic outcome.

2025 could besides clasp yet different Pixel Fold successor, though again, this depends connected however good the first-gen portion performs.

Personally, I deliberation the absorption connected competing head-to-head with Apple utilizing its rival's strategy is bound to beryllium a messy move. Google ranks acold down Apple and Samsung successful income — a recent report suggested the institution had sold little than 30 cardinal Pixels since the archetypal launched successful 2016. It's hard to spot however flooding the marketplace with much (and much expensive) devices would boost figures, though with little Android contention than ever before, anything's possible.

At the extremity of the day, the telephone manufacture tin alteration connected a dime. We're inactive successful an economical downturn, 1 plentifulness of analysts expect to germinate into an out-and-out recession adjacent year. A absorption connected releasing much high-end phones could beryllium risky — particularly arsenic consumers proceed to clasp onto their devices for longer periods of time. Ultimately, lone clip volition archer however overmuch of this study is accurate, but 1 thing's for sure. Either way, Google has large plans for the Pixel series; don't expect to spot it amusement up successful the graveyard immoderate clip soon.