Update, 9/27: The first Pixel phone renders have now leaked,
showing circular icons, redesigned soft keys and the Pixel Launcher in action.
Not exact matches
The retweeted post bears a new
icon showing a set of
circular arrows, which is how you identify it as a retweet.
They don't do anything functionally different to the old folder
icon style, they simply
show partial app
icons through a
circular «window».
The widget
shows the
circular profile picture
icon with a number of how many unread chats you have from that particular contact.
The press image
showed off the device's UI and one could see the
circular launcher
icons, as well as the Pixel Launcher.
Not entirely unlike one of several 3rd - party launchers with
circular icons (as we saw earlier this month), this view of the smaller Pixel smartphone
shows how the device will present an extremely straightforward way of using one's phone as an information source and app launcher.