Two months from the likely launch date of Google LLC’s latest Pixel smartphones, a video featuring a prerelease unit has appeared online revealing new specs about the Pixel 3 XL model.

The video first appeared on a Ukrainian social media account (reported by Android Police today) and starts with a key feature that has been reported on previously: The 3 Plus will have a serious notch that imposes into the screen not only on the top status bar as with the Huawei P20 Pro, but into the proper screen real estate itself.

Inside the box comes the first big surprise: The Pixel 3 XL is being shipped with USB C headphones. The previous Pixel model shipped with no headphones at all, with users given the option to buy Google’s expensive wireless Pixel Buds. However, the model did support USB C headphones and traditional headphones via an adaptor that was included with the phone.

Next in the video is the phone booting with no great surprises besides visual confirmation of the hardware specifications. A hardware app run in the video shows the phone running Android 9 Pie with an eight-core Qualcomm processor. Presumably it’s the Snapdragon 845 along with an Adreno 630 GPU. Screen resolution comes in at 1440 by 2960 with a density of 494 pixels per inch.

Despite the move by many manufacturers to up the amount of memory in their flagship devices, the video shows the Pixel 3 XL having only 4 gigabytes of RAM. Also confirming earlier reports, the fingerprint scanner remains in the same rear position as the Pixel 2 models.

While providing more details as to what to expect, the leak leaves some questions unanswered. Despite clearly showing a single rear camera and dual front cameras, what’s the use for the odd arrangement? Is Google perhaps offering something related to augmented reality? We also don’t know the resolution of the cameras. At a time when most top of the range phones have moved to two and in some cases three rear-facing cameras, Google decision to buck the trend remains a mystery.

Photo: LuchkovCh/Telegram