Well, we have a Pixel 9a release date now. The phone launches in the U.S., U.K. and Canada on April 10 before rolling out to 23 European countries on April 14. In Australia, you'll be able to get the Pixel 9a on April 16, with the phone eventually coming to Japan. (Google didn't list a date for that country.)

Google is debuting the new $499 Pixel 9A phone, breaking from the company's history of releasing the lower-cost Pixel A phones closer to the company's I/O conference. Instead, the phone's reveal is here in March, and Google says the phone should be available for sale on April 10.

The thinner display also left more room for the battery—Google probably could have made the phone body thinner and left the cameras to stick out, but instead, the 9a has the largest battery ever put in a Pixel. Yes, Google actually did the thing we always chastise OEMs for not doing.