Google has finally confirmed that a Google
Pixel 4a would be arriving on August 3 and even teased the device on Thursday.
On Friday, 9to5Google’s own Dylan Roussel spotted a mention of Google’s Pixel
5a. This was spotted in a code change on Google’s Android Open Source Project
or AOSP.
We are still waiting for the Google Pixel
5, which may not be released until later this year, but now we know that the 5a
is now in development. The code change mentions devices since the Pixel 2,
along with the version of Android they (launched/will launch) with.
The Pixel 4/4a are listed with “Q” for
Android 10. However, a 5G-varaiant of the 4a will launch alongside the 5 later
this year, both with the new Android R. But when will the Pixel 5a come out? We
don’t know, but our guess is that Google might launch it halfway through the
Pixel 5’s launch cycle like it did with the Pixel 3a.
We barely know what the Pixel 5 will
actually look like, and its still too early to know what kind of hardware or
features the Pixel 5a will have. Let’s wait for the Pixel 5 to arrive first,
then we’ll talk.
