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TL;DR
- Google has lastly introduced retail launch dates for the Google Pixel 9a.
- Beforehand, the corporate delayed the retail launch due to a “element high quality difficulty.”
- The cellphone will now hit US and Canada retail on April 10, 2025, with different international locations getting it a couple of days later.
Google formally introduced the Pixel 9a on March 19. Normally, this launch would have seen the corporate reveal the dates that the cellphone would hit retail cabinets. Nonetheless, Google declined to do that on the final minute. Later, we discovered that it had delayed the launch as a result of a “element high quality difficulty.” We nonetheless don’t know for sure what element that refers to or what was flawed with it.
Regardless, Google has now lastly revealed once you’ll be capable of get a Pixel 9a worldwide. Take a look at the dates beneath, which range by nation:
- April 10, 2025: United States, Canada and the UK
- April 14, 2025: Germany, Spain, Italy, Eire, France, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Switzerland, Poland, Czechia, Romania, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and Finland
- April 16, 2025: Australia, India, Singapore, Taiwan, and Malaysia
Notably, Japan continues to be lacking from that listing. We all know Google is launching the cellphone there, however for no matter cause, it nonetheless hasn’t disclosed a retail date. Hopefully, we’ll study that quickly.
Google nonetheless hasn’t made pre-orders out there for the cellphone, although. We will solely assume that, now that official retail dates are right here, pre-orders will open quickly sufficient. You may at all times enroll on the Google Retailer to be notified when the cellphone turns into out there for buy.
What might be attention-grabbing to see as soon as the Pixel 9a is out within the wild is folks taking it aside to try to work out which element had points. Judging by the fiasco surrounding the Pixel 4a battery, it’s possible that’s what they’ll examine first. Nonetheless, it could possibly be something in there, and we could by no means actually know for positive why Google pressed “pause” on the rollout.