A common complaint about the Pixel 9 is the poor benchmark results for the Tensor G4. It’s not able to go toe-to-toe with chipsets like the Snapdragon 8 Elite, but that wasn’t Google’s intention. The Pixel phones are designed to provide the best user experience possible,

Also on the design front, we’ve also heard that the Pixel 9a’s colors might include Porcelain (off-white), Obsidian (black), Peony (pink), and Iris (bluish-purple). Of those, only Iris would be particularly new for the Pixel line.

Certification filings suggest Google appears set to launch its next mid-range smartphone, the Pixel 9a, as early certification filings reveal promising new specifications.  The device, listed under the GTF7P model number on Singapore’s IMDA certification website,

From these images, we can see that the camera location and shape on these phones appears to be almost identical. The lozenge-shared area in the top left-hand corner of the rear presents the phone’s cameras, with Google offering two, while Apple only has one.

Google Pixel fans who don’t wish to break the bank often look to the more affordable A series of Pixel smartphones. The successor model of this series, the Pixel 9a, hasn’t been released yet, but at this point nearly everything important about the handset has been leaked.

Google issued its February security update with a warning that “CVE-2024-53104 may be under limited, targeted exploitation.” Exactly one week later, Apple issued its own security update, with a warning that CVE-2025-24200 "may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals.

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