Google’s Pixel 4 and Pixel XL just launched in New York, but unfortunately, the smartphones are not going to be launch in India. Google has confirmed this news and said the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are not coming to India.
You must be curious to know the reason behind it, the Pixel 4 and 4 XL are not coming in India because the company failed to secure permission from the local authority in India to use the frequency band of 60 GHz mmWave.
The new Pixel smartphone works on Project Soli: Soli is a miniature radar that understands human motions at various scales: from the tap of your finger to the movements of your body. The Pixel 4 and Pixel 4XL uses a certain frequency band of 60 GHz mmWave.
A Google spokesperson said, “Google has a wide range of products that we make available in different regions around the world. We determine availability based on a variety of factors, including local trends, and product features. We decided not to make Pixel 4 available in India. We remain committed to our current Pixel phones and look forward to bringing future Pixel devices to India.”
The radar sensors on the new Pixel smartphones enable support for a number of human interactions, Sabrina Ellis, VP of Product Management at Google, said at the event today. “For instance, Pixel 4 has the fastest secure face unlock on a smartphone because the process starts before you have even picked up the smartphone,” she claimed. “Motion sense prepares the camera when you reach for your Pixel 4, so you don’t need to tap the screen,” she added.
The radar sensor also enables other applications such as rejecting a call by just gesturing at the phone, Ellis said.
This is the first time Google has had to skip the launch of a phone in India, the second-largest smartphone market and where all the Nexus and Pixel smartphones have launched a few days after their global unveiling.
As the Pixel smartphones have failed to receive any substantial acceptance in the Indian market may be due to increased prices over the years not launching the new Pixel smartphones won’t really hurt the company at least financially speaking.
A research firm Counterpoint reports that even as 99% of smartphones shipped in India last year ran the Android mobile operating system, the vast majority of handsets carried a price tag of $200 or lower.