Google Pixel 5a pricing, release date and specs leak

(Pocket-lint) - Google precocious confirmed immoderate details regarding the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro that are owed to beryllium released aboriginal this year, though it didn't connection immoderate further details regarding the Pixel 5a, which has besides been confirmed arsenic coming.

The Pixel 5a is lone launching successful the US and Japan - arsenic antecedently revealed by Google itself - though a caller leak has fixed america an denotation arsenic to erstwhile it volition launch, however overmuch it volition outgo and immoderate of the specifications it volition offer.

According to Jon Prosser - who has a so-so way grounds though was 1 of the archetypal to uncover the Pixel 6 redesign - the Pixel 5a volition motorboat connected 26 August and those successful the US and Japan volition lone beryllium capable to bargain the mid-range instrumentality online oregon successful Google Stores. It's claimed the Pixel 5a volition diagnostic the Pixel 5's camera and outgo $450 successful the US.

Other specifications listed by Prosser see a 6.4-inch show with forced 90Hz refresh rate, Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G, 6GB of RAM and nary wireless charging. It is said to connection IPX7 h2o and particulate resistance, a headphone jack and connection a 4650mAh battery. 

For now, thing is official, though Google antecedently said the Pixel 5a would beryllium "announced successful enactment with erstwhile past year's a-series telephone was introduced." The Pixel 4a was released successful August 2020, truthful 26 August 2021 for the Pixel 5a is surely plausible. You tin read each the rumours surrounding successful the Pixel 5a successful our abstracted feature.

Writing by Britta O'Boyle. Originally published connected 6 August 2021.