While many have their eyes assail the more premium Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, Google are going to be getting its mid-range offering out of the way first. Considering what proportion it’d have in common with the Pixel 5, however, it’d not even be accurate to label the Pixel 5a as a mid-tier phone. No matter specs, however, it’ll be the worth that will determine where it slots in, and, supported an early sighting on Google’s Fi MVNO network, it fits the bill.
Unlike its predecessors, the Pixel 5 utilized a mid-tier Snapdragon 765G employed by the Snapdragon 4a 5G. Although its performance wasn’t necessarily bad, and it did have an ample 8GB of RAM, the Pixel 5 unsurprisingly carried a stigma of not being a worthy member of Google’s main Pixel family. Unfortunately, Google still slapped a comparatively higher tag that soured its image further.
In that context, the Pixel 5a better fits the bill of being the affordable Pixel phone for 2021. Its name briefly popped abreast of a Google Fi promo banner, just each day before the phone’s rumoured announcement. This promo gives the phone a proper “Pixel 5a (5G)” name (the Pixel 4a 5G skipped the parentheses) and is seemingly the substitute for the non-5G Pixel 4a within the same promo slot.
Google Fi says that subscribers will save $233 once they get the Pixel 5a (5G) for $15 a month for 2 years. The majority likely includes an equivalent $144 Device Protection ($6 a month for twenty-four months) because of the Pixel 4a that it replaces. As 9to5Google computed, that puts its full retail price at $449, $50 cheaper than the Pixel 4a 5G.
That tag might be the point of the Pixel 5a (5G) for those still within the marketplace for a reasonable 5G Pixel phone. Another potential attraction could be the 4,680 mAh battery that’s significantly larger than any Pixel phone thus far, including the higher-end models. Google is predicted to announce the Pixel 5a (5G) on August 17, and, hopefully, it’ll have more to mention to draw in buyers.
