Google’s Pixel 9a With No Camera Bar Could Be as Flat as a Pancake

The Google Pixel 8a was each the champion things astir the Pixel 8 shoved into a acold cheaper package. It adjacent looked similar a Pixel 8, with a reduced camera barroom lodging less-capable sensors. Google’s adjacent phone, supposedly the Pixel 9a, could beryllium the astir important departure from Google’s plan connection since the Pixel 6. Simply put, the adjacent Pixel 9a telephone could prevarication perfectly level against your desk.

OnLeaks, a regular render leaker that bought america close archetypal glimpses of devices similar the Pixel 9 Pro Fold and the Pixel 8, shared yet different aboriginal glimpse of Google’s adjacent telephone via Android Headlines. First and foremost, the renders amusement there’s nary camera barroom astatine all. There’s nary camera bump, either. Instead, it’s a level sheet backmost with duplicate inset lenses and a flash successful what appears to beryllium a tiny housing. At most, determination could beryllium a tiny bump wherever the lens array meets the backmost panel.

The Pixel 9 models went from a barroom to a pill-shaped cutout for its cameras. Each camera pill was the aforesaid size, but the sensor cutouts were smaller oregon larger based connected whether you opted for the regular oregon the Pro version. The Pixel 9a fundamentally looks similar the basal Pixel 9 but without the extended conception for the lenses.

It’s a just conjecture that this telephone volition vessel with Android 15, thing the Pixel 9 bid primitively didn’t. The Pixel 8a besides shipped with a promised 7 years of updates, which could proceed with the sequel budget-end phone, according to Android Headlines. If the adjacent telephone besides updates the 8a’s archetypal 64 MP wide-angle and a 13 MP ultrawide to thing adjacent to the Pixel 9, it would marque an already solid, somewhat cheaper telephone adjacent better.

We tin glean a fewer details from a batch of renders, but Android Headlines pointed retired we could spot the aforesaid 6.1-inch surface arsenic the Pixel 8a. Since the past cheaper-end telephone utilized the aforesaid Tensor G3 spot arsenic the Pixel 8, it would lone marque consciousness if Google keeps the inclination going with a Tensor G4 connected the 9a. The past telephone had 8 GB of RAM, which seems to beryllium the minimum for handling AI-based tasks. If Google wants to support promoting Gemini connected mobile, it volition request to support that consistent, too.

Google first announced the Pixel 8a during this year’s I/O developer conference successful May. Google mightiness make the aforesaid determination astatine I/O successful 2025. If they support up with the basal $500 terms tag, it volition stay a coagulated enactment for those who don’t caput lacking storage.