On Thursday, Google held the ‘Google for India’ event, where the tech giant announced an initiative to contribute to the Make-in-India program. Google said that it will start manufacturing the Google Pixel smartphones in India. The company will make its latest Pixel smartphones, starting from Pixel 9. With this initiative, India will be one of the countries to manufacture smartphones of all three leading brands; Samsung, Apple, and Google.
The Senior Vice President of Devices and Services at Google, Rick Osterloh has announced that the company will start manufacturing the Pixel smartphones in India from next year. However, he didn’t announce the exact timeline. Let’s see how Google plans to do it.
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Google is said to be in talks with the hardware manufacturers, both domestic and international. Although, the tech giant has not announced the names of these hardware manufacturers the reports earlier have revealed that Google will be partnering with Lava International Ltd, Dixon Technologies India, and Bharat FIH, the Indian unit of Foxconn Technology Group for the Pixel manufacturing in India.
Now speaking of Google’s latest smartphone, the Google Pixel 8 series was launched earlier this month and includes the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. Now we don’t know if Google will make the Pro variant in India or not. Here’s a quick recap of Google Pixel 8’s specifications.
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Google Pixel 8 has a 6.2-inch FHD+ OLED display featuring 120Hz refresh rate and HDR10+. The Pixel 8 is powered by Google’s Tensor G3 chipset paired with 8GB RAM and up to 256GB storage. Further, it is packed with a 4575mAh battery that supports 27-watt fast charging and 18-watt wireless charging.
For photography, the Pixel 8 uses a 50-megapixel main camera with PDAF, Laser AF, and OIS. Apart from that, there is a 12-megapixel Ultrawide sensor and a 10.5-megapixel selfie shooter.
