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Google's upcoming Pixel 2 and Yoshihiro Tanbara ArchivesPixel 2 XL phones might launch on Oct. 5.

The date comes via often-accurate leaker Evan Blass, who also tweeted that the devices will run on Qualcomm's yet-unannounced Snapdragon 836 chip.

Current flagship devices mostly run the Snapdragon 835 chip — the 836 is likely to be a minor upgrade and should not be confused with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 chip, which will bring more significant improvements when it launches next year.

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Blass is not the first to point towards the possibility of new Pixel phones sporting the Snapdragon 836 — a report from July said the same thing. The launch date for the Pixel 2 phones, however, is new.

Google's Pixel and Pixel XL phones launched in October 2016 (Oct. 4, to be exact) and they sported the Snapdragon 821 chips, which were a minor revision of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 chip. If Blass's info is correct, their successors will follow the same pattern to the letter.

The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are rumored to be built for Google by HTC and LG, respectively. They're rumored to have 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and a squeezable frame, a la HTC U11. Oh, and no headphone jack, unfortunately. The Pixel 2 XL's screen will be a bit bigger than the Pixel 2's screen, but we don't know the exact dimensions yet.

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