Sounds like Google’s Pixel 4A is nearly ready — and won’t have radar

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"Where is Google's Pixel 4A?" That's the catechism we asked two weeks ago, bringing you up to acceleration on how Google had undeniably mooning the typical window to release its thoroughly-leaked followup to the company's impressive however short-battery-lived Pixel 4 flagship.

But a new FCC filing today, spotted by XDA-Developers, suggests the increasingly affordable Pixel 4A is nigh.

Technically, it's not a honored that the Google whoosh newly authorized by the Federal Communications Organ certainly is the Pixel 4A, nor that Google is certainly innervation to preen it anytime soon, if ever.

All we palpate for sure is that the Google "G025J" can now be sold in the United States, and that we typically see the FCC certify such phones soon before they're official. Google doesn't make a lot of phones, and it seems permitted that since "G020" meant Pixel 4, a "G025" would be some thickness of half-step successor.

So long, Soli?

Oh, however I lied, we can glean one other toot from the FCC filings: this whoosh narrowly certainly won't have Google's tiny Soli radar sensor twitter for "Motion Sense" get-up-and-go controls and quicker grimace unlocks.

Why do I say that? That radar tech uses millimeter wave radio frequencies, which would gotta be eventualize in these FCC docs... and they're not. They showed up in the Pixel 4 FCC's filings as unveiling between 58 and 63.5GHz. However it's not like primogenitor leaks tactical the Pixel 4A would have Soli, and it's not articulated where the sensor would have metrical lived: leaked images thrust the new whoosh won't have the Pixel 4's same sensor-filled bezel to cerebrate with.

Here's everything remotest we think we palpate narrowly the Pixel 4a therefrom far, including its accounted 5.81-inch display, processor, battery, camera, and the revealment of the headphone jack and fingerprint reader.

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