Draft:Pixel 10 Pro

The Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL are a pair of flagship Android smartphones designed, developed, and marketed by Google as part of the Google Pixel product line. It serves as the successor to the Pixel 9 Pro & Pixel 9 Pro XL, with a familiar design introduced with the Pixel 9 Series. It features the fifth-generation Google Tensor system-on-chip, a new Qi2.2-ready Pixelsnap magnetic accessory support, access to advanced artificial intelligence features powered by Google Gemini, and comes pre-installed with Android 16 and newly-added Material 3 Expressive UI theming.

History

The Pixel 10 Pro & Pixel 10 Pro XL, were officially announced on August 20, 2025, alongside the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro Fold smartphones at the annual Made by Google Keynote in Brooklyn, New York. Preorders began the same day, and it was released in the United States on August 28. The Pixel 10 Series was also joined by the Pixel Watch 4 and Pixel Buds 2a as companion accessories for the lineup. The Made By Google '25 event marks the second time Google has released their flagship Pixel products in August, before the Apple September Event for their annual iPhone release.

Specifications

Design

The Pixel 10 Pro & Pixel 10 Pro XL design is slightly-modified from the Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL. Like its predecessors, they share flat sides, rounded corners, and the oval-shaped camera bar. The Pixel 10 Pro shares dimensions with the base Pixel 10, with a 6.3" even-bezeled display, while the Pixel 10 Pro has a larger 6.8" display. While the Pixel 10 only has a flash, the Pixel 10 Pro has both a flash and a thermometer on the camera bar.

It comes in four different colors, Obsidian, Frost, Limoncello, and Indigo.

Pixel 10
Obsidian	Porcelain	Moonstone	Jade

Hardware

The displays remain largely unchanged for both models, with the same screen sizes, resolutions, and 120Hz LTPO refresh rate. However, the PWM dimming rate increases from 240Hz to 480Hz, which significantly reduces eye strain and headaches for users with eye fatigue, by minimizing the perceived flicker of the display that becomes more apparent at lower brightness levels.

The camera system on the Pixel 10 Pro & Pro XL models also remains unchanged. It keeps the same 50MP wide, 48MP ultrawide, and 48MP 5X periscope telephoto rear cameras on the back, and the same 42MP selfie camera on the front, that are found in the Pixel 9 Pro & Pro XL. The 5X Telephoto gains the ability to take tele-macro photos, compared to macro mode for the ultrawide camera only. The Pixel 10 Series also gains advanced video stabilization, that Android Headlines has described as "using a Pixel 10 on a DJI Osmo Mobile 6, but without that gimbal."

The custom Google Tensor G5 System-on-Chip (SoC) that powers the entire Pixel 10 lineup is a noticeable upgrade over the Tensor G4 and other previous Tensor processors. Instead of using Samsung Exynos fabrication, Google switched to TSMC as their manufacturer for Tensor G5, and used their state of the art 3nm processing node that many other smartphone chips use, such as the Apple A18 Pro and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2. Compared to Exynos, it provides better efficiency, performance improvements, and runs at lower temperatures. Tensor overheating often plagued older Pixel models, and was revealed to be the number one reason older Pixel handsets were returned. Although it uses a similar 8-core configuration as the Tensor G4, it slightly outperforms it in terms of single-core and multi-core benchmarks, and significantly outlasts it in terms of battery efficiency. It uses the same Samsung Exynos 5400 modem as the Tensor G4, allowing for Satelite connectivity for contacting emergency services in dead zones.

Alongside the base Pixel 10, the Pro models also gain "Pixelsnap", a Google-branded feature that adds a circular magnet array to the back of the phone to allign cases, wallets, phone mounts, stands, and wireless charging pucks and stands, and other accessories using the magnetic field. It is based on Qi2, the wireless charging standard that introduced MagSafe compatibility found in iPhones since the iPhone 12. It supports the latest Qi2.2 Standard, which allows for wireless charging speeds up to 25W with compatible Qi2.2+ chargers, such as the new Google Pixelsnap Charger released alongside the Pixel 10 Series. It is the first Android Smartphone primarily available in the western market to have magnets built into the back of the phone, similar to iPhones, and one a few to include it internationally.

Software

The Pixel 10 Series comes pre-installed with Android 16, with the recently-announced Material 3 Expressive UI theming also onboard at launch. It is based on the same Material You themeing introduced with the Pixel 6 series and Android 12, and makes font & icon changes, makes text, time, buttons, & icons expand and scale dynamically, adds more animations and hapticsmore fluid, and overhauls the nonification bar and Quick Settings panel to allow for more customization.