Latest Google Pixel 7a rumors look to finally fix the Achilles heel of its predecessors - Android Police

Or possibly adjacent Achilles heels, plural

The Google Pixel 7 and Google Pixel 7 Pro mightiness beryllium the newest flagships connected the block, but the rumor rhythm waits for nary one. Just a period aft the company's latest smartphones deed store shelves, we're already starting to look guardant to what's next. After learning immoderate of the earliest details astir the Pixel 8, we're making different instrumentality to the Pixel 7a rumor mill. And with this latest report, it's starting to dependable similar Google mightiness beryllium fixing each of our complaints astir its mid-range telephone from earlier this year.

Let's recap what we cognize truthful acold because, for a instrumentality improbable to motorboat earlier adjacent summer, we've already learned rather a bit. Google is processing a telephone with the codename Lynx, a instrumentality primitively thought to beryllium some benignant of Pixel Ultra. As with immoderate telephone that word gets attached to, it yet became evident that Lynx wasn't what we thought. Despite immoderate intriguing elements — a triple-lens camera array and a ceramic assemblage among them — it seems much apt than ever that this instrumentality is really the in-development Pixel 7a.

To that end, developer (and caller leaker extraordinaire) Kuba Wojciechowski took to Twitter with different thread connected Lynx, having dug deeper into the telephone implicit the past respective weeks. He's learned rather a spot astir the phone, including immoderate facts that negate immoderate of his earlier reporting. There's besides much grounds confirming that Lynx and the Pixel 7a are 1 and the same, arsenic its camera array drivers are labeled "Pixel 22 mid-range."

In fact, let's dive heavy into that camera lineup. That triple-lens strategy didn't marque overmuch consciousness for a mid-range device, and present we cognize why. According to Wojciechowski, Google has removed the GN1 lens from the lineup, leaving conscionable 2 dedicated lenses connected the back: the superior IMX787 sensor and an ultra-wide IMX712. The IMX787 is simply a stand-in for the IMX363 past seen connected this year's Pixel 6a, and portion we walked distant from that telephone impressed with its photograph capabilities, it's each excessively wide that aging hardware is keeping the A-series behind.

We've antecedently seen the IMX787 amusement up connected phones similar the Nubia Z40 Pro and ZTE Axon 40 Ultra. It's besides appeared successful immoderate caller Pixel Fold leaks, providing much grounds that Google is utilizing it connected upcoming devices.

They aren't the lone details Wojciechowski found, though. In what could cement the Pixel 7a arsenic an early contender for the champion inexpensive smartphone of 2023, it looks arsenic though Google is sourcing a 90Hz 1080p OLED sheet from Samsung for usage successful the adjacent A-series device. That would supply a massive, much-needed upgrade implicit the Pixel 6a, and — barring immoderate discounts — mightiness marque the Pixel 7 a tougher merchantability adjacent summer.

Wojciechowski besides re-confirmed his earlier reporting regarding the usage of Qualcomm chips for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth — a archetypal for a Tensor-powered telephone — arsenic good arsenic wireless charging support. Before you get excessively excited astir these enhancements, support successful caput that it mightiness beryllium constricted to 5W speeds. That's awfully slow, adjacent for wireless charging, though it's amended than missing retired connected the diagnostic altogether.

Assuming each of this is true, there's 1 large shadiness hanging implicit the Pixel 7a: its price. These are immoderate large upgrades, but considering ostentation and the deficiency of a terms hike successful the Pixel 6a this past summer, we could beryllium owed for immoderate higher prices. It's hard not to ideate this upgraded instrumentality selling for $499, though with the Pixel 7 acceptable astatine conscionable $599, there's astatine slightest a headdress successful spot to support the A-series from getting excessively retired of control.

Still, each of this is beauteous breathtaking stuff. For a telephone improbable to motorboat immoderate clip successful the adjacent six months, we definite person learned a batch astir it. At this rate, enactment tuned for leaked renders immoderate time present — Google seems intent connected speedrunning the rumor cycle.