According to Kamila Wojciechowska, Google’s Pixel 8A may feature a 120Hz display (up from the Pixel 7A’s 90Hz) and a brighter screen. The Google I/O 2024 conference will take place on May 14, where the company will likely be talking up AI again. The company may also announce the Pixel 8A by then.
Writing for Android Authority, Wojciechowska said the next entry in the line of affordable Pixel phones will have a peak brightness of 1,400 nits, up from the 7A’s 1,000 nits, and will have limited support for DisplayPort output over USB-C. These may all be improvements over the previous generation, but if this leak is accurate, it won’t have a better camera system than the Pixel 8 like the 7A, as Google is said to be using last year’s camera on the 8A .
Past leaks have suggested that the Pixel 8A will feature the Pixel 8’s updated rounded corners, a Tensor G3 chip, and will continue to be a 6.1-inch phone like the 7A, and today’s leak from Wojciechowska confirms it all. Taken together, all these rumored changes may make the Pixel 8A feel more like a smaller and cheaper version of the Pixel 8, with a nice discount thrown in for good measure.
Compared to the Pixel 8 Pro, Google provides fewer AI features for the Pixel 8. Wojciechowska says the Tensor G3 in the new 8A will be slightly thicker and warmer than the G3 powering the Pixel 8, so the big question is how many AI features will be available to owners of the budget phone.
