Google’s Pixel smartphones to be unveiled on 4 October

Pixel and Pixel XL, the new name of Google's Nexus range of smartphones, would be launched at an event, on 4 October, according to a teaser video announcement made by the company.

In the 30-second video posted on YouTube, Google viewers got to see a familiar Google like search engine bar, which transformed into an outline of a smartphone with the Google app logo seen on the side and the date 4 October  on it.

In another teaser with a social media post via Twitter Google tweeted, ''October is coming. With a hashtag #madebygoogle'', which, according to commentators, confirmed past speculations about the release of Google's flagship smartphones.

According to a report by Android Police, which cited independent sources, they believed that ''Google's formerly-maybe-Nexus-phones, Marlin and Sailfish, will be marketed as the Pixel and the Pixel XL.''

The upcoming Google-distributed devices would differ in sizes and specs, the report continued. It added, the main differences between the higher end model,  Pixel XL, and the standard, Pixel, were the dimension, battery capacity and processors.

According to a report, the higher-end Pixel XL would come with a 5.5-inch 2,560 x 1,440 resolution screen with an active matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) display. It would be powered by a still unnamed quad core 2.0GHz 64-bit processor and a 4gigabyte (GB) random access memory (RAM).

According to Google's official website which had been marketing the 'Made by Google' campaign, both the upcoming phones would be manufactured by HTC under the design-guidelines provided by Google.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai had recently confirmed at the Code Conference about the company's plans to add more features to existing Android interface on Nexus phones.

Meanwhile, it was still not clear if the upcoming Pixel phones would run Android Nougat out-of-the-box or feature a new unreleased build of Android.