Google will launch Pixel 5a 5G this year, but not in India

Pixel 5a 5G is not cancelled, Google has confirmed. The confirmation comes in response to a bevy of speculations that started to pile up late last night following a media report that suggested Google had scrapped the Pixel 5a 5G due to the global semiconductor shortage.

Google is surely not immune to this shortage, though. The Pixel 5a 5G will be available in select markets – US and Japan only – and just like last year, Google isn’t planning to bring a 5G Pixel phone to India again (we do not have a confirmation on the Pixel 6 at this point of time).