There was not much mystery after weeks of leaks, but a surprise in the announcement he has made today Google of your next smartphone, the Pixel 9a. Google has sent the press release to the media and has uploaded the mobile to its store … where you still cannot buy or, what is unusual, reserve. Nor has a specific launch date facilitated, but only a generic ‘April’which could be in a couple of weeks or six. The usual in Google and the rest of the manufacturers, when they present a new model, is to open the reservation immediately and start delivering the device in one or two weeks. Why this lack of concretion in the 9A plans?
According to The Verge, the company planned to put it on sale this March, but It has been delayed to perform some last minute quality controls. Matt FlegalGoogle spokesman, has pointed to the environment that ‘We are reviewing a quality problem of a component that is affecting a small number of pixel 9a’ devices’although it has not specified which one was referring.
Google smartphones are usually very solid, although the company once You have had to take measures to possible malfunctions. Last January, the firmware of the Pixel 4a launched in 2020 to solve battery overheating problems and, last year, extended the cover of the defect warranty on the screen of the screen Pixel 8due to the appearance, in some cases, of a vertical line.
A model of extra small extra to be able to run locally with only 8 GB of RAM
With the 9A Pixel, Google completes the Pixel 9 phones family after the launch of the models 9, 9 pro and 9 pro xl. The variant ‘a’ is always The most economical of each generation and usually remains quite close to what their older brothers offer.
It has the same soc G4 tensionerthis time accompanied by 8 GB of RAM that, taking into account the Google approach with AI in the Pixel, which are the mobiles in which the company shows what it is capable of, a scarce figure seems like. In fact, when executing the AI locally, It will not use the Gemini Nano XS (extra small) model from the rest of the Pixel 9 range, but another called Gemini Nano 1.0 XXS (extra small extra). Nor will it work in the background constantly, but only when the user activates it and is not multimodal, only text.
The 8 GB of RAM are The minimum standard to run AI models on the device itselfand also the one who has adopted Apple. Last year, the 8th initially left without that capacity, but before the complaints Google decided to enable it through the developer mode. That was the first deployment of the Nano 1.0 XXS, according to Ars Technica, which now Google says it’s ready to use.
A new design for the Pixel to
In this generation, the 9th dares with a radical change in design and Suppress the bar feature at the back with the camera module. Adopt flat sidekeep aluminum in the frame and replace the glass from the rear, in the rest of Pixel 9, by plastic.
The screen, in relation to the 8th, grows to 6.3 inches And it is put in a maximum shine of 2,700 nits, With a panel P-Oced of 120 Hz and resolution 1.080 x 2,424 pixels.
As for its cameras, Google continues to presume to offer The best photograph in the range below 600 euros. In 9A we have a main 48 MP sensor, a great angle of 13 MP and also 13 MP front camera. In any case, this excellent reputation of the Pixel in photography is not based so much on the hardware, but on the postprocessing that the device performs, supported by AI.
Unlike Apple, which has risen its ‘cheap’ iPhone, the 16E, up to € 709, Google maintains the price of the previous generation, € 549. When can you buy? That is what Google still has to tell us.