India, March 12 -- If you are okay spending Rs.49,999 now on a new Google Pixel 10a smartphone, probably just because you'd really rather have a Pixel, I'd like to point you to the Pixel 9a from last year. Bristle as much as you want at the fact that it is a generation older, yet it costs less at Rs.39,999 and is very similar to what Google wants us to believe is their newer phone. In Google's Pixel scheme of things, one always envisioned (and that's how it mostly was) the "a" series phone to be a more value oriented spin-off of the standard Pixel. In this case, the Pixel 10a is a marginal refresh of the Pixel 9a, instead of towing Pixel 10 cues.

Let me run you through some key specs, as an illustration. The Pixel 10a runs the same Googl...