The Pixel 2 XL price jumps $80, now starts at $849

Droid Life

Google is hard at work getting the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL ready for its October 4 launch party. But, in the meantime, pricing and even more pictures of Google's upcoming flagship smartphone have leaked.

Droid Life has the details on the Pixel 2 XL, which the report says is the phone's official name. After Google's shut down of the "value oriented" Nexus brand, the first Pixel phone was criticized for being a bit too expensive. For 2017, Google doesn't seem too interested in addressing those complaints and is reportedly upping the price of the XL another $80—it will start at $849. There is, at least, a baseline of 64GB of storage, and you can jump up to a 128GB model for $949. There's no SD card slot on the Pixels, so this is the only way to get more storage.