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Google Pixel 6

Google didn’t tell us much about the Pixel 6 – but Android 12 fills in some blanks

Posted on August 12, 2021August 27, 2023 By Jarvis

When Google hosted a grand unveiling for its new Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro smartphones – doing so via a Twitter thread – it didn’t actually detail much about their cameras, leaving us in the dark on that department as well as many others.

Enter Android 12, though, as the fourth beta for the upcoming version of Google’s software has just rolled out and, per XDA Developers, the new version of the camera app contains some details of the Pixel 6 in the code.

Apparently, code string says “gn1_wide_p21” – the logic is that GN1 is Samsung’s 50MP camera that’s been used in a few Vivo phones, while ‘wide’ refers to the lens angle (most smartphones have wide-angle lenses on their main cameras) and ‘p21’ indicates it’s for the Pixel phone from 2021 – the Pixel 6 (and presumably Pro).
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