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Google leaks Pixel 6A name in, of all things, a coloring book
A Google-produced coloring guide could have simply supplied the primary official point out of the Pixel 6A, the rumored inexpensive followup to final 12 months’s flagship Pixel 6 and 6 Professional, Droid-Life reviews. The coloring guide was despatched out alongside a Nest Audio good speaker to members of Google’s Pixel Superfans group, which was launched final 12 months to offer a “VIP expertise for Pixel lovers” together with entry to “limited-edition swag.”
Photos of the coloring guide shared by Droid-Life present a wide range of black and white sketches of Google gadgets like telephones, good shows, and safety cameras in want of some colour. A table-of-contents lists a “Pixel 6A,” a telephone which Google has by no means publicly talked about. Sadly, turning to pages 6 and seven doesn’t present the telephone.
This wouldn’t be the primary time an unreleased Google telephone has been talked about in an uncommon place. For instance, a reference to the Pixel 5A (itself an inexpensive followup to the Pixel 5) appeared within the metadata of a photograph posted to one in all Google’s R&D weblog posts. Google typically has an uncommon strategy to asserting its telephones, tweeting photos and confirming particulars months forward of their official launches.
In fact, it’s completely attainable {that a} point out of a Google Pixel 6A is only a typo. However as leaks have began to emerge in regards to the unannounced gadget, it appears protected to imagine that such a telephone is on the way in which, particularly given the Pixel 3, 4, and 5 have been all adopted up with extra inexpensive A-series gadgets.
As for what kind the Pixel 6A might really take, leaked renders from November counsel it’ll have an analogous general design to the Pixel 6 with a black digital camera bar on its rear, however with a smaller general design. It’ll reportedly use the identical Google Tensor processor because the Pixel 6, however will function a lower-resolution 12.2 megapixel important digital camera, in comparison with the 50-megapixel sensor on the 6. There’s additionally no signal of a headphone jack, which is a disgrace given the function has been a staple of Google’s earlier A-series telephones.
Google didn’t instantly reply to The Verge’s request for remark. If you happen to’d prefer to check out the Google Pixel-themed coloring guide (missing the Pixel 6A point out), Google has a web-based model you’ll be able to check out proper right here.
