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The latest Google handset is now for sale and there are some deals which make it cheaper to buy on contract, so much so that at the end of the deal, you still haven’t paid the full price.

That’s according to Soniya Jobanputra, a product management director for the Pixel series. Google’s new blog post highlights some of the behind-the-scenes thinking on the Pixel 9A’s redesign, and there are some interesting tidbits in there about the new camera bar and iris color option,