Google’s Pixel 9 series can already be quite busy, with the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XLAnd Pixel 9 Pro Foldbut it is not complete. Not yet anyway. There is one more member that needs to join, and that is the Pixel 9a.
This will be the successor to the Pixel 8a which launched in May, and today a number of CAD-based renders of the 9a have been released for your viewing pleasure.
The Pixel 9a is expected to launch in the spring, so there’s still plenty of time to wait until its debut. Although the overall design of the phone is “Pixel!” shouts, as you’ve surely noticed, there’s one thing that sets this phone apart from all the others.
There is hardly any camera bump. There just seems to be a small raised ring around the oval glass casing, and that’s it. It’s funny to see that the other Pixel 9 models have one of the biggest camera bumps in the industry, and the 9a instead has one of the smallest.
Perhaps it is meant to indicate his middle-class status, below the others in the pecking order? We’ll probably never know what Google’s intentions were. Anyway, the phone has significantly thicker bezels than the rest of its family, flat sides, a power button in the wrong position (but that’s a given with Pixels), a punch-hole cutout at the top center of the screen for the selfie camera, and not much else.
Unlike all other Pixel 9s, the 9a will run Android 15 from day one. Like the others, this one will also get seven years of software support from Google. It’s expected to use the Tensor G4 chipset that powers the rest of the Pixel 9 family, but paired with a degraded modem to reduce costs.