GOOGLE LAUNCHES PIXEL 4a 5G SMARTFONE

Google will launch its new smartphone ‘Pixel 4a’ in the Indian market in October. However, the company will not launch its 5G technology based Pixel 5 and Pixel 4A (5G) in India and Singapore. In October last year, the company did not even launch its ‘Pixel 4a’ and ‘Pixel 4 XL’ in the Indian market.

Google said in a blog post that ‘last year’ Pixel 3a ‘gave people the opportunity to use the good features of Pixel at a cheaper price. This year the ‘Pixel 4a’ will give them the opportunity to use the incomparable camera and many other features that will make their phone better over time. It will be launched in India in October. Google said about the price of the phone that it will make its announcement around its release.

Google said that the ‘Pixel 5a’ and ‘Pixel 4a (5G)’ coming this year will not be available in India and Singapore. The company has also announced the Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 5G. Although Google has clarified that it will not launch the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G in India, the company said that the decision was taken keeping in view different factors like local market and trend. Speaking of the Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 5G smartphones, these phones have just been launched in the US, no announcement has been made as to when they will arrive in India. As 5G is not available in India at present. Talking about the price of the Google Pixel 4a smartphone, the first variant is 4G, priced at 34 349 (approximately Rs. 26,250), and the second variant is 5G, starting at Rs. 499 (approximately, 37,534). 

The smartphone will be available in India from October. In the market, this phone will compete with OnePlus Nord, Samsung Galaxy A51 and Samsung Galaxy A71. The Google Pixel 4a smartphone has a 5.8-inch OLED display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G chipset, 6GB RAM and 128GB storage space. It has a 12.2-megapixel camera and an 8-megapixel front camera. It also has a 3,140mAh battery with rear-mounted fingerprint sensor fast charging technique.

This is Google’s first 5G smartphone, with 5G variants available in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan and Australia. Pre-order bookings have begun in the US. The 4G variant of Google Pixel 4a will be available in India in October 2020. This will be sold on Flipkart in India.