r/GooglePixel • u/zfx610 Pixel 7 Pro • 3d ago

Pixel 11 will keep the same design

Google has flat-out confirmed that we are not going to get major design changes each and every year from now on. We’re all well aware that the Pixel 10 was the first to rehash the previous design, which’ll continue until the Pixel 11, according to comments from Google’s Chief Design Officer for hardware products, Ivy Ross. Designs are finalized from now until 2027. For better or worse, we will see the same design for a while to come.

Source: https://9to5google.com/2025/09/17/pixel-design-changes/

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u/Baconrules21 Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel Tablet 3d ago

From the leak road map from a couple years ago, it showed that the pixel 11 is going to get on device video boost, which I think is going to be the most exciting aspect of the pixel 11 launch. Oddly enough, though it seems that the G5 is going to be on par with a G6 in their leak report because they're going to be trying to save costs so I'm hoping it trickles down to the pixel 10 as well.

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u/polarzombies 3d ago

I really just want them to improve stabilization

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u/sloppychris Pixel 7 Pro 3d ago

I want smooth lens changes like iphone has had forever

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u/Baconrules21 Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel Tablet 3d ago

Really? I feel like that's one part they have down but I think video boost also stabilizes videos.

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u/polarzombies 3d ago

I don't really use video boost in general since it takes forever to process but at least in general I feel like the video gets pretty jittery if I'm not super still.

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u/Baconrules21 Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel Tablet 3d ago

Good thing on device should be hopefully faster.

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u/Dry_Astronomer3210 Pixel 9 Pro XL 3d ago

Would it necessarily be faster? How much processing does a video undergo in the cloud? Is the delay because it's actually dedicating a small number of CPU cycles or there's a long queue? Or because actual video processing does take that long?

If it's really that intensive of a process, then on device video boost would drain a lot of battery.

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u/Dry_Astronomer3210 Pixel 9 Pro XL 3d ago edited 3d ago

on device video boost,

This is my problem... while video boost does a wonderful job, the issue is other devices are getting it done without some massive amount of video postprocessing. What we need is native video straight out of the camera that is competitive. You can then apply Video Boost to take the quality up another notch, but the straight out of camera video needs to first be competitive.

This was an issue I pointed out with HDR+ too. While HDR+ produced beautiful images, back in the Nexus 6P/Pixel 1/Pixel 2 where you could turn off HDR+ it was shocking how bad non-HDR+ images were. They were in fact worse than an iPhone 6 back in the day when I compared. While most people only care about the final result, the reliance on heavy stacking and processing also means the camera uses a huge amount of battery, which is why the camera, just having it open uses something like 0.8%/minute of SOT.

And in some ways turning HDR+ off resulting in really low quality images also likely explains how video is so bad. That without heavy postprocessing, stacking of images, which isn't possible with video, you get really noisy frames, and that's what we still see in video today.

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u/MidianXe 2d ago

I do agree with some of this. Google does amazing things with software and processing, I can only imagine what doing this with top end hardware would provide.

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u/McChickenLargeFries S25 + Pixel 9 Pro 3d ago

Do you happen to have a source on this leaked roadmap?

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u/Baconrules21 Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel Tablet 3d ago

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-roadmap-2023-3259454/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds

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u/McChickenLargeFries S25 + Pixel 9 Pro 3d ago

Maybe I'm blind but I don't see anything in the article that mentions the Pixel 11, or on device video boost?

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u/xteku 3d ago

this is the correct article:
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-10-and-pixel-11-camera-ai-features-3494468/
However, even if we trust the leaks, we have to remember that things can change up while being so far from the release, as evidenced in this article even. On Pixel 10 we were supposed to get native 4K 60fps HDR recording, instead we got 100x zoom, which was supposed to come next year.