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Google announced its latest budget Pixel, the Pixel 6a, during the Google I/O event on Wednesday.
Even though all of the previous a-series Pixel phones have featured a 3.5mm headphone jack, Google has axed it from the Pixel 6a — and that too less than a year after the company touted the Pixel 5a’s headphone jack in an advertisement while poking fun at Apple for getting rid of it (via The Verge).
At least Google didn’t go back and try to delete the ad (like Samsung).
The Pixel 6a is a $599 CAD mid-range smartphone that has a lot of things going for it, including the same Google Tensor processor that powers the higher-end Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, but a headphone jack isn’t among them.
Google also took a couple of jabs at Apple after the company launched the headphone jack-less iPhone 7 in 2016, only to end up following suit and removing the jack from the Pixel 2 a year later. Google would reintroduce the 3.5mm audio jack to its Pixel line with its first a-series phone, the Pixel 3a, in 2019, and keep it through the Pixel 4a and Pixel 5a. Unfortunately, that streak is now coming to an end with the Pixel 6a.
Google’s new Pixel 6a will be available for pre-order starting July 21 and hit shelves on July 28 in Chalk, Charcoal, and Sage colour options.
At Google I/O, the company also unveiled the new Pixel Buds Pro and gave us our first (official) look at the Pixel Watch.
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Guess the missionaries will have to come up with excuses why the headphone jack is now not worth keeping and why this somehow makes sense now. Again.
Considering Google already has a number of wireless earbuds today. I guess Google feels like its time to promote more of their wireless earbuds, instead of worrying about the backlash from a few that want to make it a big thing that this Pixel 6a doesn’t have a headphone jack. Like Apple did with their iPhones.
The missionary Apple zealots like you have more pressing things to worry about from Apple, but clearly don’t want to touch them with a 10 foot pole. Like Apple and CSAM, and their Nudity Detection software, especially since Apple’s Nudity Detection software is already installed on every iPhone moving forward. I notice you don’t want to touch those articles.
You seem overly concerned about what Apple is doing with CSAM. Guy don’t use iPhones, so that’s really weird. Are you afraid they’ll be able to trace the pics back to you?
Pedos will get caught, one way or another. If Apple helps with that, no one will mind. Except the pedos it seems.
What irritates me is not that all manufacturers are engaged in a race to the bottom and cutting cost on 1000+ phones, but that Scamsung and Google had the ballz to ridicule Apphell for being cheap, only to follow suit and then rush to delete “sarcastic” ads they pushed out a year before.
Man up.