Google’s first budget smartphone codenamed “Sargo” is in our hands. For the first time information about it was found at the beginning of October in the ARCore code, and we will show the first review of the mid-budget device on Android Pie.

An anonymous source sent us pictures and information about the device.

The appearance of Sargo resembles Pixel 3. On the right is a volume rocker, above located a bright green power button (in Pixel 3 it is dark green), on the left is a SIM card slot (in regular Pixel 3 and 3 XL it is below), at the bottom is a Type-C connector, speaker and microphone, at the top is a second microphone and jack 3.5 mm.

On the back side is a protruding camera and a fingerprint scanner. The case material is plastic. Let us remind you that in the flagship Pixel 3 is used glass.

The smartphone is equipped with a 5.56-inch IPS-display with a resolution of 2220×1080 pixels — 444 dots per inch. There is no notch in the screen, but there are symmetrical protrusions above and below, as in Pixel 3. One speaker in front.

The processor uses an 8-core Snapdragon 670, made on a 10-nanometer process with the Adreno 615 graphics chip. The processor supports UFS 2.1 and eMMC 5.1 flash memory. 4 gigabytes of RAM, built-in storage is 32 gigabytes. There is no slot for microSD.

You may be confused by the text “platform: sdm710” in the specifications that AIDA64 displays. To be honest, it also confuses us. Probably, this is a mistake, because according to another section on phone info shows that the main CPU is Snapdragon 670, not Snapdragon 710.

As far as is known, the Snapdragon 710 is designed to running on the budget version of Pixel 3 XL.

Battery capacity is 2915 mAh. Information about charging speed is not available, but the installed processor supports Quick Charge 4+ technology.

The main camera doesn't have a dual-sensor: only one module with 12 megapixels and a double flash. One the front camera is 8 megapixels.

Considering the fact that our source has already got acquainted with the device, there is a verdict – the camera is the same as the regular Pixel 3 and is not inferior in quality.

The expected cost of Pixel 3 Lite is $400-500. Perhaps, it will be shown at the end of the year or in the first quarter of 2019.

The codename of smartphones Google chosen in honor of the fish. Sargo is a species of fish from the family of sea breams and porgies (Sparidae). In addition, the company is developing another affordable phone — Bonito which runs on the Snapdragon 710. There is no information about it yet.

This is not the first leak about Google smartphones. Earlier, we were one of the first who posted a photo, and then a hands-on review of the Google Pixel 3 XL.