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You can spot an Apple iPhone from 20 paces away. I bet you\u2019d be able to tell a Samsung Galaxy from that distance, too. Yet, until last year, a Google phone didn\u2019t have an eye-catching design language all its own. <\/p>\n

But this week, Google revealed that its most distinctive, in-your-face design element ever is here to stay. <\/em>Not only did it feature on last year\u2019s Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro<\/a> \u2014 and will appear on the Pixel 6A this July<\/a> as well \u2014 but Google has also already shown us an even bolder, harder-hitting version will jut right out of this fall\u2019s Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m talking, of course, about the camera bar. <\/p>\n

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Or, as Dieter Bohn jokingly called it before he coincidentally left us to work for Google<\/em><\/a>: the \u201cshelf.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever you call it, it\u2019s immediately divisive: this thing<\/em> jutting out the back of your phone. But that\u2019s how we originally saw Apple\u2019s iPhone notch, too, or its ugly white earbuds. I\u2019m old enough to remember when its original candy-colored translucent iMac G3 was ridiculed for looking like a toy. But all of those weird designs became iconic strengths for fans (and ads<\/a>) to rally around. (Heck, we even get nostalgic for transparent gadgets<\/a> these days.)<\/p>\n

And it doesn\u2019t hurt that Google\u2019s camera bar has some of that playfulness, too. Where Apple and Samsung\u2019s multi-eyed camera arrays originally looked a bit insect-like, the Google camera bar has more of a robotic, R2-D2-esque look \u2014 fitting for the company behind Android. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying Google didn\u2019t have<\/em> a design language before the Pixel 6, but it felt borrowed rather than new. Originally, of course, Google didn\u2019t design Android phones at all. The T-Mobile G1 and Nexus One were from HTC; the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus were from Samsung; the Nexus 4, Nexus 5, and Nexus 5X were from LG; the Nexus 6 came from Motorola; and the Nexus 6P was a Huawei phone.<\/p>\n

Aside from giving half those phones a horizontal \u201cNexus\u201d wordmark, only the LG phones had any common design language at all. <\/p>\n

All of that changed with the Google Pixel in 2016. But not necessarily for the better because Google was gunning for the iPhone right from the start. We noted that the original Pixel looked way too much like an iPhone<\/a>, only with the fingerprint sensor divot of a Nexus 5X and a partially glass back \u2014 not bad, that two-tone glass, but not really a distinctive look you\u2019d recognize from across the street. <\/p>\n

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Rather than get more distinctive, Google wound up removing <\/em>more and more glass each year, save the Pixel 4\u2019s all-glass back. Then, the Pixel 4 failed<\/a>, Google pivoted cheaper, and the glass disappeared altogether in 2019.<\/p>\n

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It also probably doesn\u2019t help that in late 2019 \/ early 2020, Apple<\/a> and <\/em>Google<\/a> and<\/em> Samsung<\/a> all settled on the squircle as their camera corral of choice. Oops! While Samsung quickly found a way out by blending its camera bump into the S21 metal rail<\/a>, Google\u2019s phones wound up looking more like low-rent iPhones than ever… until the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro finally arrived last October with the camera bar in tow.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s nothing low-rent about the Pixel 6 or Pixel 6 Pro, and even the new Pixel 6A isn\u2019t ditching that premium look \u2014 though it does have a \u201c3D thermoformed composite back\u201d instead of the Gorilla Glass you\u2019ll find on pricier models.<\/p>\n

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The Pixel 6A.<\/em><\/figcaption>Image: Google<\/cite><\/p>\n

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But the thing that ties it all together is that camera bar. It\u2019s the centerpiece (that isn\u2019t technically centered because dead center would be a dumb place to put a camera). It\u2019s the feature that now gives Google\u2019s Pixels an actual silhouette instead of just being yet another rounded rectangle. It\u2019s the line dividing the two tones of Google\u2019s two-tone design language for the entire Pixel family. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the new Pixel family portrait, so you can see what I mean:<\/p>\n

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Except… wait, what the heck? What is THAT? <\/p>\n

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Oh Google, what have you done now<\/a>… you promised<\/a>! <\/p>\n

I\u2019m so, so sorry, everyone. <\/p>\n