Design and hardware The Pixel 5a is built with an aluminum body and
Gorilla Glass 3 for the screen. The device is available in a single color, Mostly Black. The housing has a thick coating of plastic, while the power button is textured. The back houses a capacitive fingerprint sensor centered below the camera lens. It has stereo loudspeakers, one located on the bottom edge and the other doubling as the earpiece, and a 3.5mm
headphone jack. A
USB-C port is used for charging and connecting other accessories. The Pixel 5a uses the
Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G system-on-chip (consisting of eight
Kryo 475 cores, an
Adreno 620 GPU and a
Hexagon 696 DSP), with 6 GB of
LPDDR4X RAM and 128 GB of non-expandable
UFS 2.1 internal storage. The Snapdragon 765G allows for standard 5G connectivity, however only "sub-6" networks are supported. It is the first Pixel phone not to ship with unlimited storage in high definition on
Google Photos. In October 2021, the Pixel 5a was updated to
Android 12, in August 2022, the Pixel 5a was updated to
Android 13, and in October 2023, the Pixel 5a was updated to
Android 14. == Known issues ==