Google briefly delays Pixel 9A release to investigate ‘component quality issue’

Google’s marque caller midrange phone, the Pixel 9A, won’t beryllium shipping until sometime successful April. That’s not unusual successful and of itself, but it turns retired you can’t adjacent preorder 1 from the Google Store yet. The second concern is reasonably unusual, arsenic Google usually starts taking orders for caller hardware close aft announcing it. There’s a crushed for this constricted merchandise “launch”: Google primitively intended to get the Pixel 9A retired the doorway successful March, but it’s been held backmost for immoderate last-minute prime checks.

“We’re checking connected a constituent prime contented that’s affecting a tiny fig of Pixel 9A devices,” Google spokesperson Matt Flegal told The Verge by email. Review units of the caller telephone haven’t yet been distributed to media, which is different denotation that Google discovered thing worthy investigating astatine the eleventh hour. We’ve asked Google if it tin specify which constituent is astatine contented here.

The Pixel lineup has a decent way grounds erstwhile it comes to hardware reliability, but determination person been exceptions. In January, Google issued an urgent firmware update for the long-discontinued Pixel 4A to address artillery overheating concerns. (The 5,100mAh battery successful the Pixel 9A is the largest of immoderate Google telephone to date.) Last year, Google extended warranty sum for show defects connected the Pixel 8, and anterior to that, the Pixel 4A 5G suffered from touchscreen troubles aft a bundle update successful 2021. The company’s aboriginal Tensor chips were besides known to tally uncomfortably lukewarm astatine times.

Whatever the occupation mightiness be, it’s reassuring to spot Google playing it harmless here. Pixel 9A buyers volition conscionable person to hold a spot longer than they might’ve hoped to accidental goodbye to the camera bump.