Pixel 6A Revealed: Google’s Cheaper Phone Looks Promising

Google should indeed be focusing on a Pixel 6A — including lots of the Pixel 6’s emphasize functions such as the Tensor processor chip at a lesser $449 cost — however it will undoubtedly be a couple of months before it continues on purchase. At Google I/O on Wednesday, the technology monster disclosed this new phone alongside a review of the continuing future of Android os 13, its long-awaited Pixel Watch, brand-new Pixel Buds Pro, a tease of a Pixel Tablet in 2023 and an initial go through the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro because of into the autumn.

Coming July 28, this new 6.1-inch Pixel will act as a successor to last 12 months’s Pixel 5A. As reported, it will probably feature a design comparable to a year ago’s Pixel 6 range, including a camera club in the rear of the telephone for the 12-megapixel ultrawide and primary digital cameras. 

Google’s customized Tensor processor chip willpower the telephone alongside 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage space. Bing states the 6A will undoubtedly be effective at the exact same tips the Pixel 6 provides, including digital camera functions like evening Sight, genuine Tone and secret Eraser — using the final of the getting a marked improvement that will enable you to definitely “replace the colour of distracting things inside picture.” 

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The phone will support 5G and all three major US wireless carriers will offer the phone, though Verizon’s version will run $500 since it supports millimeter-wave 5G. Google is promising roughly three years of Android software updates and five years of security updates. The company says the 6A will be “among the first Android devices to receive the upcoming Android 13” update later this year. 

Like the Pixel 6, there will be an under-display fingerprint sensor on the 6A. Google has also dropped the headphone jack on the 6A, a departure from the 5A that kept the port. Like the Pixel 5A, the new phone will be IP67-rated for water and dust resistance. As with the 5A, the Pixel 6A will not support wireless charging. 

“Pixel 6A is about maximizing the user value,” Google said in a statement to CNET. “To maintain a $449 starting price point we needed to make some tradeoffs, one of which was the exclusion of wireless charging.”

Color options for the new phone will include charcoal, chalk and sage. Preorders will start on July 21.