The Google Pixel 5a is $449, adds a bigger screen and water resistance

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  The Pixel 5a. [credit: Google ]

Google has officially unveiled its next mid-range phone, the Pixel 5a . The particular big news today (and always the main selling point of the Pixel A-series) is the price, which is $449, or $100 more than the Pixel 4a. Google’s blog post has a phone comparison sheet showing its lineup as the particular Pixel 5, Pixel 5a, plus Pixel 4a, so hopefully, typically the $349 Pixel 4a is sticking around?

Part of the reason for the cost increase is that the Pixel 5a is a bigger phone, with a 6. 34-inch display and 73. 7 mm width compared to the Pixel 4a’s 5. 8-inch display in addition to 69. 4 mm width. Another big change is the addition of IP67 dust and water proof, which means the phone should survive submersion in 3 feet of water (1 meter) for 30 minutes. Like the Pixel 5, the body is metal coated in plastic instead of this pure plastic body of often the Pixel 4a. We did not really see the appeal of this in your Pixel 5 , but presumably, the phone is stronger now.

As usual, we’re getting a no-frills design that just takes care of the basics. On the exact front, there’s a slim-bezel OLED display and a hole-punch camera in the top right, while on the back there are two cameras (main and wide-angle) and even a capacitive fingerprint reader. Specs include a Snapdragon 765G (that’s a 7nm chip with 2 Cortex A76 cores and six Cortex A55 cores), 6GB associated with RAM, 128GB of storage, and the biggest battery of any -pixel: 4680 mAh. The main digital camera is 12. 2 MP together with looks like the same Sony IMX363 sensor that Google has used with regard to the past four years. There’s a 16 MP wide-angle and an 8 MP front camera. Oh yeah, the headphone jack is adhering around for at least one more year.