Exciting details person emerged revealing plans for Google’s next-gen mid-range smartphone, the Pixel 7a, including a monolithic camera upgrade.
According to the leak which comes, once again, courtesy of Android developer and noted leaker Kuba Wojciechowski, the Pixel 7a volition travel with a superior camera upgrade implicit the Pixel 6a.
Google's Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro (pictured) volition soon look a caller lower-priced challenger.
GOOGLETaking a heavy dive into Google’s camera operator code, Wojciechowski discovered references to an unreleased instrumentality going by the codification sanction “Lynx” with the statement “Pixel 22 Mid-range”. The existent Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro are referred to successful the aforesaid codification arsenic “Pixel 22 Premium”, meaning the caller instrumentality volition astir apt crook retired to beryllium the forthcoming Pixel 7a.
Google’s caller smartphone is described successful the codification arsenic offering a dual rear camera setup featuring Sony’s immense 64-megapixel IMX787 (main) and 13-megapixel IMX712 (ultrawide) sensors.
If the Pixel 7a truly does travel with an IMX787, past this would correspond a monolithic betterment implicit the Pixel 6a, offering an adjacent higher main camera solution than Google’s flagship Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro models with a sensor of a akin carnal size. This could beryllium to beryllium a flagship-level camera without a flagship price.
Wojciechowski besides expects the Pixel 7a to travel with a 90Hz Samsung-built 1080p display. That outpaces the 60Hz show of the existent Pixel 6a by offering the aforesaid creaseless framework complaint recovered connected the Pixel 7.
No accusation has been provided connected the surface size oregon facet ratio, nevertheless “1080p” is usually assumed to specify a 16:9 display. This would people a departure from the taller 20:9 FHD+ displays of the Pixel 6a and Pixel 7, perchance hinting astatine a much compact Pixel 7a. While immoderate mightiness beryllium excited astatine the imaginable of a smaller handset, FHD+’s 1080 x 2400-pixel solution could besides technically beryllium considered “1080p” successful that it inactive offers a short-side solution of 1080 pixels, contempt its longer shape.
If these specs crook retired to beryllium true, the Pixel 7a volition beryllium precise pugnacious to bushed astatine its expected terms of astir $449.
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