Exclusive: Google's Pixel 9a Will Have a Much Larger Battery

When it launches next year, the Google Pixel 9a is shaping up to be a pretty impressive smartphone launch from Google. Thanks to a source, we can now provide you with the battery capacity.

Google is upping the battery capacity to 5,000mAh with the Pixel 9a. That’s an increase of about 11%. That’s a wild increase to see year-over-year. Typically, phone batteries only increase around 3-4%, and almost always, they increase under 5%. So, to see this much of a difference is good to see, but a bit unexpected.

The Google Pixel 8a already had some pretty good battery life, as we found in our review. Now, with a battery that’s 11% larger, we’re expecting even better battery life, and it could even break some records in our battery life tests when we get the Pixel 9a in to review next year.

Pixel 9a is also set to sport a 48-megapixel primary camera

As we exclusively revealed last week, the Pixel 9a will also sport a 48-megapixel primary camera, ditching the 64-megapixel camera currently on the Pixel 8a. We believe this would be the same primary camera as the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, which would be larger, and let in more light thanks to the higher aperture of f/1.7.

Google is sticking with the same 13-megapixel ultrawide camera, however, and is not opting to ditch it for telephoto like some other dual-camera phones have done recently.

We have also exclusively revealed that the Pixel 9a is going to launch much sooner than the Pixel a-series has in the past. We are looking at a mid-March release date, which is about two months earlier than the Pixel 8a and even the Pixel 7a, were launched. This lines up with Google moving everything up with the Pixel 9 launch this year. Since the Pixel 9 launched in August, versus the usual October launch date.