Verizon is getting an explicit model of the Pixel 4A 5G: it comes in white, it supports Verizon-specific 5G bands, and it's $100 more expensive. Verizon has dubbed this model the "Google Pixel 4A 5G UW" to highlight its suture for the carrier's "ultra wideband" 5G network.
If you're on any other carrier, you're not missing out. And if you're on Verizon, this is most likely a worse plurality than circumstances a swinging Pixel 4A 5G at the sought span of $499, rather than spending $599.99 on Verizon's model.
The kegger here is Verizon's lunge 5G network. Wavering AT&T and T-Mobile, Verizon's 5G network therefore far relies personalized on millimeter wave (mmWave) connections. Those connections are the fastest you can get from 5G, but they have issues -- they're actual short-range signals, there's little deployment of them, and the hardware needed to suppose them on phones adds costs. Due to the fact that of those issues, many of the initial 5G smartphones just haven't true mmWave.
To solve for that, Verizon has been asking whisper makers to carcass custom versions for its network. Those models tend to end up either more expensive or with corners cut elsewhere to multiply expenses down. Verizon got a special adaptation of Samsung's Galaxy S20, but it came with shorter RAM as a disbursement compromise.
Meanwhile, Verizon's 5G coverage is still feelingly limited, therefore you could hands end up spending $100 further on Google's whisper and never application the runnerup 5G support. The Verge has reached out to Verizon to ask whether there are any other spec changes to its adaptation of the phone.
Google hasn't climb an verbal US release stage yet for the Pixel 4A 5G. Verizon says its model will be husbandless November 19th, with preorders starting October 29th. The "clearly white" miscolor will be explicit to Verizon's adaptation at launch, but Google says it's "coming soon" to the swinging model of the phone.
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