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The Pixel 7a, in real life, from Zing News.
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The lines on the top edge are slightly closer together than on the Pixel 6a.
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Google has remotely nuked this phone, but here’s the fastboot barcode screen.
The Pixel 7a will be a monster of a mid-sized car. The phone promises to improve on the Pixel 6a by addressing the biggest weaknesses of the phone by upgrading the screen and camera and adding wireless charging. On paper, the unreleased phone looks so good that upgrading to the larger Pixel 7 and 7 Pro is a hard sell. Surely Google can justify raising the price a little bit?
9to5Google’s Max Weinbach says he has a price for the Pixel 7a, and it’s $499. That’s a $50 increase over the $449 Pixel 6a, but justifiable given all the upgrades. The report also says Google will continue to sell the Pixel 6a “at a lower price point”, which would make a great phone an even better deal.
We used to call the Pixel 7a “mid-range”, but this phone probably isn’t anymore. It has the same flagship-class SoC as the Pixel 7, the Google Tensor G2. A big upgrade this year is a 90Hz display, bringing the 7a in line with the Pixel 7. The 7a also gets an upgrade to the same camera setup as the Pixel 7: a 64MP main sensor and a 13MP wide-angle lens. The phone also gets 5W wireless charging.
So if all that is $500, why upgrade to the $600 Pixel 7? Well, you get a slightly bigger screen: 6.3 inches versus the Pixel 7a’s 6.1 inches. You also get 2GB more RAM, 8GB instead of the Pixel 7a’s rumored 6GB, and 20W wireless charging instead of the 5W on the Pixel 7a. There are conflicting reports on the size of the Pixel 7a’s battery, but they’re all slightly higher than the more expensive Pixel 7’s 4355mAh battery.
The report also says to expect a launch at Google I/O on May 10, so it may be less than a month away.
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