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Rita El Khoury \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n
My\u00a0Android Authority colleague Kamila recently revealed a lot of details about the upcoming Pixel 10 series\u2019 cameras<\/a>. According to her report and sources, the Google Pixel 10 Pro series<\/a> will keep the same camera sensor setup as last year\u2019s Pixel 9 Pro phones, but the regular Pixel 10 will see some major changes. Some upgrades with a new telephoto camera, some downgrades with smaller main and ultrawide sensors. If you ask me, though, I think it\u2019s all a net positive because a zoom lens is becoming a necessity nowadays.<\/p>\n How do you feel about the Pixel 10 series’ camera specs?<\/p>\n 2478 votes<\/p>\n They’re brilliant.<\/p>\n 17%<\/p>\n OK, I guess.<\/p>\n 37%<\/p>\n Not good enough.<\/p>\n 46%<\/p>\n I used to recommend the regular Pixels until I couldn\u2019t<\/p>\n Paul Jones \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n When I saw the first leaked Pixel 10 renders<\/a>, I nearly didn\u2019t believe them. For a few years now, since the Pixel 6 series, Google has differentiated between its regular and Pro phones with the camera setup. Regular gets two lenses (main, ultrawide), and Pro gets three lenses (main, ultrawide, and zoom). It\u2019s been that way for so long that seeing a third camera on the regular Pixel 10 almost felt fake. But with Kamila verifying this with her sources, I think it\u2019s fair to assume that this change is real, and I\u2019m so happy about it.<\/p>\n See, I\u2019ve recommended Pixel phones for many years now to everyone I know. My mom, aunt, husband, best friend, a few other friends, a cousin, and many other people in my entourage grabbed Pixels because of me, because they kept seeing my excellent Pixel photos<\/a>, got tired of me saying, \u201cIt\u2019s the Pixel camera, I tell you!\u201d and decided to get in on the action themselves.<\/p>\n The problem is that not everyone has the budget to splurge for the Pro Pixels to get the best of Google\u2019s camera setup. A few years ago, when the Pixel 6 Pro launched for $899 with a pair of free Bose Headphones 700 \u2014 a $399 value \u2014 as a pre-order bonus, a few people could justify the splurge and either kept the headphones or sold them to recap some of the upfront money. Later, when Google switched to offering a Pixel Watch with the Pro phones, it was still a decent deal. Now, though? The Pixel 9 Pro launched last year at $999 and the Pro XL at $1,099, both without any real tangible pre-order benefit.<\/p>\n My friends and family get disappointed when their Pixels don’t zoom properly, even though they got the non-Pro phones for budgetary reasons.<\/p>\n So when my friends or family members coughed at the price of a Pixel Pro, I recommended the regular Pixel. In my head, I thought there wasn\u2019t much of a downgrade to justify the price difference. Yes, I knew that I, personally, couldn\u2019t let go of my zoom lens, but I go to concerts (see the photos below) and sports games. I also travel a lot and I love framing buildings and sceneries from afar; I\u2019m an anomaly. Regular people wouldn\u2019t miss the zoom, I assumed. Oh, how wrong I was.<\/p>\n I was talking to my friend a few months ago, and the subject of the Pixel came up. When I asked her if she was enjoying the cam, I could hear her shrug and hmph through the phone. Why? Bad zoom. She told me she has trouble taking photos of her kid during school recitals and theatre shows. She said she keeps looking at other parents near her with their iPhones and Galaxy phones<\/a> and noticing they have better cameras and can take nice photos of their children. She knew she\u2019d made a price compromise to get the regular Pixel, but she had still expected more<\/strong> from its cam.<\/p>\n Yikes. This same conversation happened again and again with other people. A neighbor who\u2019d moved from a Galaxy S22 to a Pixel 9 lamented the \u2014 admittedly pretty basic \u2014 3x zoom she had on her Samsung phone when taking photos of her kittens. My mom keeps asking my aunt to take photos of things that are far away because she knows the Pixel 6 Pro will do better than her Pixel 7 with zoom. My best friend told me she was jealous of my Pixel 9 Pro XL photos because I could zoom in and avoid crowds while we were sightseeing together. And so on.<\/p>\n So, I stopped recommending the regular Pixel to people when they ask me about it because I know that sooner or later, even if they don\u2019t think they need<\/strong> zoom, they will envy<\/strong> zoom.<\/p>\n Zoom is no longer a luxury, it\u2019s an expected feature<\/p>\n Rita El Khoury \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n It\u2019s not one, not two, but many conversations over the last year that have convinced me that a zoom lens is no longer regarded as a luxury \u2014 at least in the circle of people I know. It\u2019s a feature people expect, a feature they want.<\/p>\n Everyone wants zoom even though they don’t know it yet.<\/p>\n Some have kids, some have pets, some travel, some have bad eyesight, some attend concerts and festivals, others go to sports games, and everyone now sees someone in their immediate surroundings pull out a high-end Pixel, iPhone, Samsung, Xiaomi, or any other great camera phone<\/a>, and take an excellent photo from afar. Unlike us who follow the mobile industry up close, none of them know that zoom lenses have been restricted to expensive flagships and that you have to pay to get them; few of them even know that zoom requires a separate camera module!<\/p>\n![\"Pixel](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Pixel-8-vs-Pixel-9-scaled-e1737374865219.jpg\"\/ "\\"Pixel")
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