The Google Pixel 10a Is Barely Different From the Pixel 9a

Those are the kinds of refinements Google has made connected the Pixel 10a. The pOLED show is astir identical, but it tin present scope 3,000 nits of highest brightness versus 2,700 nits connected the 9a. The solid covering the show uses Corning's Gorilla Glass 7i alternatively of the aging Gorilla Glass 3, for amended scratch resistance.

The artillery capableness remains 5,100 mAh, but Google has upped charging speeds to 30 watts erstwhile plugging in, and 10 watts for wireless charging. Google skipped the Pixelsnap magnetic Qi2 charging here, a diagnostic the institution debuted connected its flagship Pixel 10 series. Apple is expected to motorboat its midrange handset successful a fewer weeks—the iPhone 17e—and rumors suggest it volition enactment MagSafe/Qi2, dissimilar the iPhone 16e, giving it a limb up implicit Google's phone, adjacent if it is pricier.

Speaking of the battery, Google says it uses the newer “pull jacket” mechanics to much easy region the adhesive connected the battery, a strategy it introduced connected the Pixel 10 series. Like the Pixel 9a, this telephone besides has a mandatory Battery Health Assistance instrumentality that lowers the max voltage the artillery tin scope aft a definite fig of complaint cycles to summation the battery's lifespan. Google developed this strategy aft it recovered overheating issues successful earlier Pixel A-series models.

While the Pixel 10a inactive lone supports Wi-Fi 6E similar its predecessor, alternatively of the newer Wi-Fi 7 standard, Google did adhd a caller modem to enactment Satellite SOS, allowing the telephone to link with exigency services erstwhile there's nary Wi-Fi oregon compartment signal.

Google says the Pixel 10a is made with “the astir recycled worldly of immoderate A-series Pixel yet,” including utilizing recycled cobalt, copper, gold, and tungsten for the archetypal time. (Apple has been utilizing these recycled materials for respective years already.) The aluminum framework is 100 percent recycled, and the backmost is 81 percent recycled plastic.

That's astir it for hardware changes. The telephone comes successful caller colors—Obsidian, Fog, Lavender, and Berry—the second of which is simply a motion to the Berry colour successful caller Nest products Google introduced precocious successful 2025.

Software Upgrade

Google knows the Pixel 10a upgrades are thin, which is wherefore it's bringing implicit a fewer Pixel 10 bundle features similar Camera Coach and Auto Best Take. The institution isn't porting these capabilities to the Pixel 9a contempt the 2 smartphones sharing the aforesaid Tensor G4 spot and 8 GB of RAM—at slightest not yet. Google often gatekeeps a fewer bundle features for a fewer months connected its caller devices, past ports them backmost to older Pixels via Pixel Drop bundle updates. However, Google did not corroborate if this volition so beryllium the case.