Rick Osterloh, the senior vice president of hardware at Google, confirmed in an interview with AndroidPIT that the Pixel would be getting a follow-up this year.

“There is an annual rhythm in the industry,” Osterloh said. “So, you can count on us to follow it.”

Google’s hardware head wouldn’t give a more specific timetable for the new Pixel beyond sometime this year. “You can count on a successor this year, even if you don’t hear a date from me now,” he said. While we had expected that Google would be continuing the Pixel line, this is the first official confirmation that we’ll be seeing a new model this year.

As for the phone’s price, it doesn’t seem that Google has any plans to make a budget version. Per Osterloh: “Pixel stays…

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