Google’s Pixel 9 collection could also be fairly crowded already, with the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Professional, Pixel 9 Professional XL, and Pixel 9 Professional Fold, but it surely’s not full. Not but, anyway. There’s yet one more member that should be a part of, and that is the Pixel 9a.
This would be the successor to the Pixel 8a which launched again in Could, and immediately a bunch of CAD-based renders of the 9a have been outed to your viewing pleasure.
The Pixel 9a is anticipated to launch within the spring, so there’s nonetheless loads of time to attend till its debut. Whereas the general design of the telephone does scream “Pixel!”, there’s, as you will have certainly observed, one factor that units this one aside from all of the others.
There’s barely any digital camera bump. There appears to solely be a small raised ring across the oval-shaped glass housing, and that is it. It is humorous how the opposite Pixel 9 fashions have one of many hugest digital camera humps within the trade, and the 9a goes with one of the vital diminutive as an alternative.
Maybe it is meant to suggest its mid-range standing, beneath the others within the pecking order? We’ll in all probability by no means know what Google’s intentions had been. Anyway, the telephone has considerably thicker bezels than the remainder of its household, flat sides, an influence button within the flawed place (however that is a given with Pixels), a hole-punch within the prime middle of the display for the selfie digital camera, and never a lot else.
In contrast to all the opposite Pixel 9s, the 9a will launch operating Android 15 from day one. Just like the others, it too will obtain seven years of software program help from Google. It is anticipated to make use of the Tensor G4 chipset that is powering the remainder of the Pixel 9 household, however paired with a downgraded modem with a view to reduce prices.
