When I power up a Google Pixel 7 Pro in 2025, it feels like a different company made the phone. Google used to frustrate me, seemingly ignoring legitimate user complaints year after year with its smartphones. Pixels were plagued with the same issues every year, and it was difficult to recommend a Google smartphone.

Google has announced that it will release the Pixel 9A in the US, Canada, and the UK on April 10th. The budget-friendly device was initially expected to launch shortly after its reveal on March 19th, but Google delayed it to investigate a “component quality issue.”