The Pixel 8A is powered by Google’s Tensor G3 chipset with 8 GB of RAM, similar to the Pixel 8 sequence. Meaning it will be able to a lot of the identical software program wizardry Google confirmed off final yr 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 area; and Finest Take, which may change an individual’s face in a photograph by clipping it from an analogous photograph, which is helpful in case somebody blinked and ruined an in any other case good shot.
This cellphone may even be capable of faucet into Google’s Gemini Nano massive language mannequin. To allow Gemini Nano, you will have to enter the Pixel’s developer settings and test a field that claims you comply with run experimental options that will or could not work completely but. When enabled, Gemini Nano permits you to entry particular on-device AI options, like summarize in Google’s Recorder app and Good Reply in Gboard. Gemini Nano might be accessible in a future software program replace, however Google confirmed that whereas the default assistant on this handset stays Google Assistant, you may change it with its Gemini assistant simply out of the field, similar to you may on most different Android telephones at this time.
Talking of, similar to the Pixel 8 sequence, 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 a protracted 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 possibility, although that is restricted to the Obsidian colour. The Pixel 8A’s different colours embrace Bay, Porcelain, and a beautiful new Aloe.