Google shuts down Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL sales Ars Technica

The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL.

Ron Amadeo

Google has discontinued the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, the agency's flagship smartphones from final yr. As first noticed via Android Police, the Pixel 2 has been scrubbed from the Google Store web page, and the old Pixel 2 URL now redirects to the Pixel 3 web page.

The Pixel 2XL turned into possibly Google's most aggressive phone to date. There have been the standard Pixel functions—a top notch build of stock Android, fast updates, and a superb camera—but the Pixel 2 became the closing telephone from Google with an aluminum frame. (Remember aluminum? It failed to shatter while you dropped it.) The actual rarity from the Pixel 2 XL turned into a design from Google that changed into in reality appropriate, with slender bezels (for the time) and a unique layout that didn't look like an iPhone. Google basically carried the Pixel 2 XL design a year forward for the smaller Pixel 3.

With the loss of life of the Pixel 2 and a couple of XL, Google americathe ante on its identify of "World's most high-priced smartphone lineup" going by means of entry-stage charge. While many producers promote low- and mid-variety smartphones and provide older top rate fashions at a discount, Google stops manufacturing its older models shortly into the existence cycle of the new version. Once the vintage models promote out, they may be long past for all time. Previously, the older Pixel 2 changed into selling for $649, which nonetheless made it the most high-priced access-degree smartphone from a producer, but it changed into better than handiest carrying the Pixel 3. With the discontinuation of the Pixel 2, Google's smartphone lineup starts offevolved at a whopping $800 MSRP.

Meanwhile, Apple's access-degree telephone is the2019 iPhone 7 for $449, and Apple additionally nevertheless sells the iPhone 8 for $599. If you're searching out some thing with a greater modern design, Apple makes a reason-built less expensive iPhone, the iPhone XR, for $749.

A "mid-variety" Pixel phone has been rumored for a complete 12 months now. It certain might be tremendous if Google could simply launch some thing with a lower price.

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