Google Pixel 8A: Leaks, Rumors and What We Know

Google’s lower-priced Pixel A collection has introduced high-end telephone options to cheaper handsets for years, which is more likely to proceed in 2024. If the corporate retains the identical technique as final yr and the years earlier than, we would see the Pixel 8A debut at Google I/O 2024 on Might 14. 

Given the Pixel A collection sometimes inherits options from the newest flagship Pixel telephone. Meaning a few of AI instruments from final yr’s Pixel 8 collection, like Greatest Take and Magic Editor, might arrive on the upcoming Pixel 8A. If that finally ends up being the case, it will be one other effort by Google to carry new AI options to its cheaper telephones, following its determination to develop Circle to Search to the Pixel 7A and Pixel 6 collection. 

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Google’s telephones sometimes focus extra on advancing software program than {hardware}, and the corporate has a behavior of bringing newer options to older gadgets by means of software program updates, as evidenced by Circle to Search’s enlargement. With that in thoughts, there is a good probability the Pixel 8A will proceed to get new options trickling down from Pixel telephones to return. 

Bundle this with a probably prolonged shelf life ought to the Pixel 8A inherit the Pixel 8’s seven years of Android and safety updates, and Google’s subsequent reasonably priced handset may carry so much to a budget telephone market. 

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This is all of the leaks and rumors we have heard in regards to the Pixel 8A up to now.

Pixel 8A colours, design and digicam

Final yr’s Pixel 7A felt like a cut price. It inherited many options from the Pixel 7 for $100 much less. The upcoming Pixel 8A looks as if it’s going to observe in these footsteps if rumors and leaks turn into true.

The Pixel 8A may inherit the Pixel 8’s Tensor G3 processor, the newest Google-designed chip that powers the telephone’s AI capabilities, in accordance with a March leak from Android Authority citing inside Google sources. The brand new telephone may additionally get its premium sibling’s 120Hz refresh fee show, an improve from the Pixel 7A’s 90Hz display screen, together with a brighter 1,400-nit show.

The identical leak suggests the Pixel 8A can have the identical digicam array because the Pixel 7A: a 64-megapixel most important digicam, 13-megapixel ultrawide digicam and 13-megapixel selfie digicam. On paper, these sound higher than the premium Pixel 8’s 50-megapixel most important digicam, 12-megapixel ultrawide and 10.5-megapixel selfie digicam. When CNET Senior Editor Lisa Eadicicco pitted the Pixel 7 (which has comparable cameras because the Pixel 8) in opposition to its cheaper Pixel 7A counterpart in a digicam take a look at, she could not discover a lot distinction in digicam functionality. 

Shifting on to colours, a current April rumor from leaker TechDroider confirmed purported pictures of the Pixel 8A with a matte end on the again in three hues: blue, porcelain (beige) and obsidian (black). By comparability, the Pixel 8 is available in obsidian, mint (inexperienced), hazel (a greenish grey, as my colleague Ian Sherr describes it) and rose (a peachy pink). 

One other set of pictures posted by leaker Evan Blass on social media website X purportedly exhibits a number of in another way coloured instances wrapped round Pixel 8A telephones in the identical hue. The five-color assortment does present an identical array of blue, beige and black in addition to the mint coloration from the Pixel 8, plus a ultimate orange-ish coral — one hearkening again to comparable hues within the Pixel 4 lineup.

Pixel 8A worth

The Pixel A telephones have elevated in worth over time, and the Pixel 8A might observe in that route. The unique Pixel 3A launched in 2019 for $400, whereas the Pixel 4a adopted a yr later with a worth lower to $350. The Pixel 5A and 6A jumped to $450, and the Pixel 7A prices $500. 

A rumor by German website WinFuture cited by 9to5Google means that the Pixel 8A may elevate the worth additional to $550. Given the Pixel 8 prices $700, the Pixel 8A would nonetheless be a cut price compared (relying on which options it inherited). One other rumor by PassionateGeekz cited by GSM Area discovered listings by a Canadian retailer with the Pixel 8A’s worth beginning at 709 CAD (which at present converts to round $518). 

One other leak from on-line persona OnLeaks revealed on Smartprix suggests the Pixel 8A will begin at $500 for a 128GB storage mannequin and $560 for a 256GB storage configuration. If any are true, it will nonetheless be a gradual improve in worth in comparison with older A-series Pixel telephones. 

All instructed, the Pixel 8A looks as if will probably be a barely watered-down model of the Pixel 8. That could possibly be a very good factor for Android followers searching for an reasonably priced Pixel telephone. We’ll doubtless know extra as soon as Google I/O takes place subsequent month. 

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