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Pixel 11 Colors, Pricing Leak via Amazon Listings Ahead of August Launch

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Pixel 11 Colors, Pricing Leak via Amazon Listings Ahead of August Launch

Now-deleted Amazon listings spotted by 9to5Google show the Pixel 11 lineup in seven colorways across three device tiers, along with pricing and specs for the base model ahead of Google's August 12th Made by Google event. The Verge reported the listings, which have since been corroborated by Android Police, Android Authority, and Android Headlines.

The base Pixel 11 reportedly comes in Fuchsia (also listed as Hibiscus), Moss (also listed as Pistachio), and Midnight (also listed as Obsidian), according to 9to5Google, which published a gallery of the leaked images. The Pixel 11 Pro expands to four options: Pine (Olive), Light Fog (Fog), Sterling (Frost), and Dune (Canyon). The Pixel 11 Pro Fold, by contrast, shows just two — Pine (Olive) and Midnight (Obsidian) — a narrower palette consistent with how Google has historically treated its foldable as the more conservative sibling in the lineup.

The dual naming is itself a data point worth noting. Android Police observed that Obsidian is a returning Pixel color while Hibiscus and Pistachio would be new additions to the line, and it's plausible the listings are simply carrying both an internal codename and a retail-facing marketing name simultaneously, a pattern that has surfaced in past Pixel leaks.

On specs, the Amazon listing for the base Pixel 11 reportedly showed a $899 price point, a 6.3-inch display at 1080x2424 resolution, 256GB of storage, and 12GB of RAM, per The Verge's report. Android Authority separately corroborated the 6.3-inch screen size. If accurate, the $899 figure would need context against Pixel 10 pricing at launch to gauge whether Google is holding the line or nudging the base model upward — that comparison isn't available from the current listings alone.

One more detail buried in the listings: a reference to an unannounced "Google Pixel Tag," which reads as a Bluetooth tracker in the mold of Apple's AirTag or Samsung's SmartTag. Google has floated Find My Device network tracker hardware before without shipping a first-party tag, so a listing reference alone doesn't confirm the product will ship alongside the phones, or at all.

9to5Google flagged reasons for caution that are hard to dismiss. Some of the listings referenced Android 16 as the shipping OS version, despite Android 17 having already launched — an inconsistency that would be unusual for a legitimate retail listing this close to launch. Other listings also mentioned a SIM ejector tool, which most current Pixel 10 models don't require given their eSIM-first design in many markets. Android Headlines echoed the same concern, suggesting the color names themselves could be placeholders rather than final retail branding.

The timing lines up with Google's own calendar: the Made by Google hardware event is set for August 12th, per The Verge, which is when the company is expected to formally unveil the Pixel 11 series. As of this writing, Google's own store listings at store.google.com show the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro Fold as current, with no Pixel 11 reference — unsurprising a month out from launch, but a reminder that everything here originates from third-party retail error rather than Google confirmation.

The broader pattern here is a familiar one. Pixel launches have leaked through retailer and carrier listings for years now, sometimes with near-perfect accuracy on colors and pricing, sometimes with placeholder specs that get quietly corrected before launch day. The Android 16 reference is the tell worth watching most closely: it suggests either a stale template used by whoever populated these listings, or specs locked in before Android 17 shipped and never updated. Neither scenario is unusual for pre-launch retail staging, but it does mean the specific numbers — RAM, storage tier, exact pricing — deserve more skepticism than the color leaks themselves, which tend to be harder to fabricate convincingly across four independent outlets.

What's more durable across the reporting is the color strategy itself. Expanding the Pro tier to four finishes while keeping the base model and Fold more limited tracks with how Google has differentiated its lineup in recent generations, using color variety as a soft signal of which device sits where in the pricing tier. Whether "Hibiscus" and "Pistachio" survive as final names or get swapped for something else before August 12th, the retail choreography around a major phone launch is by now a genre unto itself, one that regularly tells us more about a device three weeks out than any official teaser does.