The Google Pixel 9a was made official earlier this week, but we're already well into rumor season for the Pixel 10 due later this year – and the handset just popped up in Android's codebase, with a hint of a useful speed upgrade.

Generally speaking, companies don’t acknowledge the existence of new smartphones until the official unveiling, even though everyone knows they’re coming. To that end, the Pixel 10 is guaranteed to follow 2024’s Pixel 9 and 2023’s Pixel 8 later this year, and we’ve even seen leaked renders of what it might look like.

Google is planning a massive shake up of the way it produces its Tensor chips for Pixel smartphones, and the Pixel 10 is where it will all start. Reports from South Korea late last year suggested that Google was ready to ditch Samsung for its Pixel 10 chip,