I got my hopes up when Google’s Pixel 10 colors leaked, but now I want it to show love to its Pro models, too.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, not Christmas — that’s still (thankfully) months away — but Pixel leaks season. Yes, it’s that special time of summer when we find out almost everything there is to know about Google’s upcoming crop of flagships, from camera sensors to chipsets to, most importantly, colors.
This year, though, I have a particular bone to pick with the maker of Android. I think Google nailed the colors of the upcoming Pixel 10, embracing just enough nostalgia to evoke images of the Pixel 3, but it whiffed on the finishes for the much more premium Pixel 10 Pro. The four leaked colors are business-like rather than bubbly, and I am begging for Google to bring some fun back to its Pro lineup.I’ll take every Pixel in this color, thank you
Back in the day, Google had one set of colors for its entire Pixel lineup. The Pixel 1 and Pixel 1 XL came in the same mix of Really Blue, Very Silver, and Quite Black, and that tradition carried all the way to the Pixel 4 series and standalone Pixel 5. It was great — matching colors across different models meant that I could fall in love with a shade like Not Pink or Really Blue and still have my choice of size.
So, when the Pixel 10 leaked in an Indigo shade that looks almost exactly like the Pixel 1’s Really Blue and a Frost hue that screams Kinda Blue from the Pixel 2, it got my hopes up. The colors felt like a sign that Google was ready to embrace a little bit of nostalgia from Pixels of the past, turning its tenth year into a celebration now that the base Pixel 10 is set to move closer to its Pro-grade siblings by adding a telephoto sensor.
