Pixel 7a India launch on May 115 things we already know

By Ankita GargThe Pixel 7a is coming to India on May 11 and it will be available for purchase via Flipkart. The mid-range 5G phone will first be announced globally on May 10 at Google’s I/O developer conference. Ahead of the launch, Google has confirmed a few details by releasing a teaser image of the phone. Here are five things we already know about the upcoming Pixel 7a smartphone.

Pixel 7a India launch on May 115 things we already know

-The Pixel 7a will retain a dual camera setup at the back, as per the teaser image. The back panel will continue to have a horizontal camera module, which is a design that we have seen on many Pixel phones. It is similar to the Pixel 6a as well. It seems that Google avoiding experimenting with the design as the old design is working well in its favour.

-There is no doubt that the mid-range 5G phone will ship with Android 13 OS out of the box.

-The Pixel 7a won’t ship with a charger because the company doesn’t bundle one with its premium phones.

-The leaks so far suggest that the Pixel 7a will use Google’s Tensor G2 chipset under the hood, which is not surprising because the company started using its home-brewed chip with the launch of the Pixel 6 series. The company uses one-year-old flagship chipset for its Pixel A series phones. The Pixel 7 was launched with Tensor G2 and so, the new one will likely use the

-You can expect to see a punch-hole display design on the front because this is something that we have been seeing on all the Android phones for the past few years.

Pixel 7aExpected price in India

The price of the Pixel 7a will likely be high in India when it will launch on May 11. The price is expected to fall under Rs 50,000 segment. To recall, the Pixel 6a was announced in India with a starting price of Rs 43,999.

Price plays a big role in deciding a new phone’s fate and its sales numbers. The Pixel 6a seemed like a pretty expensive phone because of the features it was launched with, but it got sold like hotcakes when Google dropped its price in India by a big margin. Flipkart sold this 5G phone for less than Rs 40,000 and later, the price dropped to less than Rs 35,000 just a few months after the launch. Google itself revealed that its Pixel 6a smartphone along with the Pixel 7 series helped gain a lot of revenue.

It is being said that Google could either offer it at the same old price in the US or increase the price by $49. The Pixel 6a was announced in the global market for $449 (around Rs 36,700).