What’s going on with Google’s Pixel 5 launch?

[Chris Smith]

• The Pixel 5 release date is yet to be decided, but Google already announced the markets where its most expensive 2020 handset will be available later this year.
• Google's Pixel 5 will launch in the US, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, and parts of Europe, but the company will be ignoring several other major smartphone markets.
• Google confirmed India and Singapore aren’t going to get the phone, and the Pixel 5 will not launch in most of the European Union.

Google did something different with the Pixel phones this year, and it’s all because of the novel coronavirus health crisis. The Pixel 4a saw a three-month delay, and the handset will only reach consumers later this month. That’s probably why Google also soft-launched two other Pixel phones the other day, the Pixel 4a 5G and the Pixel 5. Google confirmed all the recent rumors that said it would have three new Pixels in stores this year, including two Pixel 4a flavors and the Pixel 5. COVID-19 pandemic aside, this wasn’t going to be the year of the Pixel 5. Reports in the first months of the year said the Pixel 5 would not match the hardware of other 2020 flagships, and all the rumors that followed confirmed the first 5G premium Pixel phone Google ever made will be a mid-range device that could still be quite expensive. Google is yet to confirm those rumors, but Pixel rumors usually come true. The company’s Pixel 4a announcement does reveal an unexpected detail about the Pixel 5, however. Google won’t even try that hard to sell you one.

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