
Bargain-hunting smartphone shoppers got a bit of bad news this week in the form of the latest Google Pixel 7a rumor, with a pair of prognosticators forecasting a price hike for the upcoming budget phone over last year's model.
Both 9to5Google's Max Weinbach and Front Page Tech's Jon Prosser believe that Google is going to charge $499 for the Pixel 7a. While that's still under the threshold for our best cheap phones rankings — just barely — it would be a $50 increase over what Google charged for last year's Pixel 6a.