The Pixel 8A is powered by Google’s Tensor G3 chipset with 8 GB of RAM, identical to the Pixel 8 series. Meaning it’s going to be able to a lot of the same software wizardry Google confirmed off final 12 months with the debut of its flagship, together with Audio Magic Eraser, which helps you to erase undesirable sounds in video clips (like sirens); Magic Editor, the place you may transfer topics round and have the software program generate a background to fill within the house; and Finest Take, which may substitute an individual’s face in a photograph by clipping it from an analogous photograph, which is beneficial in case somebody blinked and ruined an in any other case excellent shot.
This cellphone may also be capable of faucet into Google’s Gemini Nano massive language mannequin. To allow Gemini Nano, you may have to enter the Pixel’s developer settings and test a field that claims you conform to run experimental options that will or might not work completely but. When enabled, Gemini Nano permits you to entry specific on-device AI features, like summarize in Google’s Recorder app and Good Reply in Gboard. Gemini Nano will likely be obtainable in a future software program replace, however Google confirmed that whereas the default assistant on this handset stays Google Assistant, you may replace it with its Gemini assistant simply out of the field, identical to you may on most different Android telephones immediately.
Talking of, identical to the Pixel 8 collection, Google is promising seven years of software program updates on this cellphone. That makes the Pixel 8A one of many solely sub-$500 units to get such an extended software program help window. Google’s additionally providing the identical built-in VPN perform too. The machine comes with 128 GB of storage, and there is now a 256-GB choice, although that is restricted to the Obsidian shade. The Pixel 8A’s different colours embody Bay, Porcelain, and a beautiful new Aloe.
