In case you’ve obtained your eye on a Google Pixel 7 you may need to maintain off for a bit, as a result of Google might quickly launch the Google Pixel 7a, which is more likely to be cheaper, and – if latest leaks are to be believed – may additionally be very comparable.

That impression comes principally from a hands-on video, supposedly of the Google Pixel 7a, posted on a personal Vietnamese Fb group, however noticed and uploaded to Twitter by leaker @chunvn8888 (opens in new tab).

The video exhibits a telephone that appears loads just like the Pixel 7, with an identical digicam visor on the rear, a shiny again, and a punch-hole digicam within the display.

Pixel 7a palms on by a Vietnamese individual on Fb, can affirm 90Hz is therehttps://t.co/YhuCl7kfpe pic.twitter.com/qViNpbWS1EJanuary 3, 2023

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The telephone can be switched on, and whereas not a lot of curiosity is proven on the display, there’s point out of the show being 90Hz – which once more is rather like the Pixel 7, and an improve on the 60Hz Google Pixel 6a.

Since then, the person has returned with a second video – additionally shared by @chunvn8888 (opens in new tab) – by which they present that the telephone has seemingly been remotely locked by Google. However the one display they’ll nonetheless entry on it mentions 128GB of storage and 8GB of RAM.

You’ll be able to most likely guess what we’re going to say right here – these specs are additionally precisely the identical as what you get with the Pixel 7, though there’s additionally a 256GB mannequin of that telephone. For reference, the Pixel 6a comes with 128GB of storage however simply 6GB of RAM.

Remembering the Pixel 7a? The man messaged me a couple of minutes in the past that the telephone is remotely locked by Google.Not less than we now know one other element: 8GB LPDDR5 RAM and 128GB pic.twitter.com/ZRaDUXYSDWJanuary 4, 2023

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We might, in fact, take this leak with a pinch of salt, nevertheless it seems to be convincingly like a Pixel 7a. For one factor, one of many settings screens exhibits that identify, and whereas that would have been edited, the design of the telephone itself doesn’t appear to fairly match up with any present Pixel mannequin.

For instance, the digicam block appears to be barely much less raised than on the Pixel 7, and the design of the lenses differs barely from the Pixel 6a.

Evaluation: why purchase the Pixel 7 when you should purchase the Pixel 7a?

If these leaks show correct, and the 2 telephones are certainly very comparable, then Google might hamper gross sales of the Pixel 7 with this launch.

That mentioned, there are nonetheless plenty of issues that might be totally different, together with the display measurement and the cameras – but when the Pixel 7a is considerably extra reasonably priced then it’d nonetheless make the Pixel 7 a tough promote.

Then again, we’re not anticipating to see the Pixel 7a till round mid-2023, so the Google Pixel 7 may have been on sale for a very long time by then, with the Pixel eight quick approaching. So Google may not be too anxious a couple of new mannequin undercutting it.

The Pixel 7a itself may battle, although, if it’s not priced appealingly. In spite of everything, the Pixel 7 will doubtless be closely lowered by the point this telephone launches, so we’d discover the 2 telephones are an identical value – or that the Pixel 7 is definitely the cheaper of the 2.

That actual factor occurred with the Pixel 6a, which at launch value greater than the Pixel 6 might typically be discovered for. So hopefully Google received’t repeat this error. Nonetheless, the Pixel 7 is without doubt one of the greatest Pixel telephones, and if these leaks are proper then the Pixel 7a might be proper up there with it.