Last year’s Pixel 5 was a bit of a letdown for most fans of Google phones, as it went for a budget SoC while maintaining the main level price, and the launch of the Galaxy S20 FE didn’t help at all. Now we are seeing for the first time an economical version that should be released in a few months and … it looks familiar.
Steve Hemmerstoffer, better known as OnLeaks, published an allegedly rendered image of the Pixel 5a. No other models were mentioned in the leak, so it’s not clear whether Google will go with a single ‘A’ device this year (like last year’s Pixel 5), or whether this is one of the two phones. Google sold the Pixel 3a in regular and XL sizes and, although there were also two models in 2020, the larger phone had slightly better hardware and was sold as Pixel 4a 5G.
The leaked phone measures 156.2 x 73.2 x 8.8 mm, making it almost identical in size to the Pixel 4a 5G, 9.1 mm higher than the normal Pixel 4 and 4.2 mm shorter than the Pixel 4 XL. It also looks almost identical to the Pixel 4a 5G, even the left-aligned camera cutout, 6.2-inch screen and dual cameras. There is also a headset.
At the moment, it is difficult to say how it differs from the Pixel 4a 5G, but we don’t know anything about the internal hardware or pricing yet. If this is the only Pixel in the A series that we have this year, fans of the smaller Pixel phones will surely complain.
