Google on Wednesday introduced its newest entry-level Pixel smartphone. The $499 Pixel 10a launches with new AI software program capabilities and minor {hardware} updates. The smartphone is out there for preorder now with shipments beginning March 5. It is available in Lavender, Berry, Fog, and Obsidian.
The Pixel 10a contains a fully flat again, which suggests the digicam bar blends with the again of the telephone and lies flat once you place it down on a floor.
Google notes that the smartphone’s 6.3-inch Actua show is 11% brighter than the Pixel 9a. It additionally has quicker charging than its predecessor, with greater than 30 hours of battery life and as much as 120 hours with the “Excessive Battery Saver” setting turned on.
The Pixel 10a comes with the identical Tensor G4 chip that powered final 12 months’s Pixel 9a. It contains a 48MP foremost digicam, which Google says is the perfect digicam on a telephone below $500, together with a 13MP ultrawide digicam.
After first debuting on the Pixel 10 sequence final summer season, Google is bringing a set of AI-powered digicam options to the A-series telephone. The “Auto Greatest Take” function captures a number of frames in a single shutter press and mechanically selects the perfect model so everybody appears good in a gaggle photograph, whereas the “Digicam Coach” function provides customers step-by-step steering on lighting and composition.
Moreover, Google is bringing Satellite SOS to the A-series for the primary time, permitting customers to attach with emergency companies even once they don’t have Wi-Fi or mobile service.
As with latest Pixel telephones, the Pixel 10a will include seven years of software program and safety updates.
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It’s value noting that the Pixel 10a doesn’t have the “PixelSnap” magnetic Qi charging function on the Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Professional, and Pixel 10 Professional Fold.
The smartphone’s arrival comes simply forward of Apple’s upcoming new entry-level telephone, the iPhone 17e. The gadget is predicted to price $599, like final 12 months’s iPhone 16e.
Google additionally introduced that it’s launching Pixel Buds 2a in two new colours, Berry and Fog, to go together with the Pixel 10a.
