If you're holding out hold for at least one bezel - free Pixel, note that Blass says the phone in that image is the smaller of Google's upcoming devices, code -
named Walleye.
Not exact matches
Continuing with the fish
naming scheme used for past Nexus and Pixel devices, «
walleye «is possibly the smaller phone and «muskie «is the larger.
This information comes from multiple sources speaking to Droid Life, sources which also corroborate the
Walleye and Muskie leak, meaning this is likely a third phone, rather than just an alternate
name for one of those.
According to some sleuthing from Android Police, «
Walleye» and «Muskie» may be the monikers used to refer to Google's next two Pixel devices (the different
names denote different sizes), carrying on a long tradition of marine - themed codenames.
The code -
names for the three Pixel smartphones for 2017 are reportedly «
Walleye», «Muskie», and «Taimen».
Google Pixel 2 smartphones are code -
named «Taimen» and «
Walleye» if we go by the reports that have been floating around.
Google Pixel 2 and Google Pixel 2 XL have been code -
named «Taimen» and «
Walleye» respectively.
Specifications of the upcoming Google Pixel 2 smartphones, which are code -
named «Taimen» and «
Walleye» have been revealed in a detailed post by XDA - Developers.
In continuing that trend, Google appears to be code
naming the next two Google Pixel flagships «muskie» and «
walleye», per a report by David Ruddock over at Android Police.
Walleye, Muskie and Taimen are supposed the
names of the next - generation Google Pixel phones that will be getting the Snapdragon 835.
Modified code in the Android Open Source Project gerrit associates changes relating to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 to target devices codenamed «
Walleye,» «Muskie,» and «Taimen,» all three apparently being operative
names of the next generation Google Pixel devices.
The
walleye device's fingerprint sensor software is
named as «Pixel Imprint,» while the sensor software on the taimen device is
named as «Nexus Imprint.»
As per another information via XDA, the pre-production software used the
name «Nexus Imprint» for the fingerprint scanner of the Taimen whereas it used the
name «Pixel Imprint» for the
Walleye.
The details are extremely sparse so far, but we do know that two new devices code -
named Muskie and
Walleye are in development at Google's Mountain View labs.
«Finally got around to manually testing this on a
walleye device,» the engineer,
named David Zeuthen, says in one of the comments.
The first being a reference to the
walleye naming which has been spotted in the Android Open Source Project (shown below), and the second being an unnamed source which has said to have «corroborated» the information.
Those are
names of fish:
Walleye was believed to be the smallest of the bunch, and Muskie was thought to be the replacement for the Google Pixel XL.
From its reporting, Android Police believes the
names are «
walleye» and «muskie,» with the latter being the larger device.