The Pixel 8A is powered by Google’s Tensor G3 chipset with 8 GB of RAM, similar to the Pixel 8 collection. Meaning it will be able to a lot of the identical software program 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’ll be able to transfer topics round and have the software program generate a background to fill within the house; and Greatest Take, which might change an individual’s face in a photograph by clipping it from an identical picture, which is beneficial in case somebody blinked and ruined an in any other case good shot.
This cellphone may also have the ability to faucet into Google’s Gemini Nano giant language mannequin. To allow Gemini Nano, you may have to enter the Pixel’s developer settings and examine a field that claims you conform to run experimental options that will or might not work completely but. When enabled, Gemini Nano helps you to entry particular on-device AI options, like summarize in Google’s Recorder app and Sensible Reply in Gboard. Gemini Nano shall be out there in a future software program replace, however Google confirmed that whereas the default assistant on this handset stays Google Assistant, you’ll be able to change it with its Gemini assistant simply out of the field, similar to you’ll be able to on most different Android telephones right now.
Talking of, similar 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 operate too. The gadget comes with 128 GB of storage, and there is now a 256-GB choice, although that is restricted to the Obsidian colour. The Pixel 8A’s different colours embrace Bay, Porcelain, and a beautiful new Aloe.
