Google’s Pixel 9A will launch on April 10th

Google has announced that it volition release the Pixel 9A successful the US, Canada, and the UK connected April 10th. The budget-friendly instrumentality was initially expected to motorboat soon aft its uncover connected March 19th, but Google delayed it to analyse a “component prime issue.”

The Pixel 9A volition get passim the remainder of Europe connected April 14th, portion Australia, India, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia volition spot the instrumentality connected April 16th. Google says the telephone is “coming soon” to Japan. You inactive can’t preorder the Pixel 9A on Google’s site, but you tin motion up to get notified erstwhile it’s available.

When asked astir the delay, Google spokesperson Matt Flegal told The Verge that “rumors and speculation regarding this hold are false.” He added, “A passive constituent successful Pixel 9a didn’t conscionable our rigorous prime standards for instrumentality longevity and alternatively than vessel it, we made the hard determination to hold the connected support and instrumentality corrective enactment connected the tiny fig of affected units.”

The Pixel 9A starts astatine $499 and comes with a larger show than its predecessor, an upgraded Tensor G4 chip, and a plan that ditches the Pixel’s salient camera bump for a level back. Despite having enactment for Google Gemini, it runs a much constricted mentation of the AI model, resulting successful it missing features similar Pixel Screenshots and Call Notes.

Update, March 28th: Added a connection from Google.