Google Will Produce Much less Than a Million Pixel 5 Smartphones This Yr: Report

Google plans to supply lower than 1 million Google Pixel 5 smartphones this 12 months, as per a report. This can be a modest objective for the tech large to set for the flagship Google Pixel 5 that has simply been launched. Google Pixel 4A (5G) was additionally launched alongside Pixel 5, and the Pixel 4A a couple of months again. Preliminary manufacturing for all three fashions is about at simply three million models, the report added, as Google’s complete handset gross sales final 12 months fell under the corporate’s goal, and market demand had additional been hit by the pandemic.

Citing sources, the report by Nikkei Asia claims that manufacturing for the flagship Google Pixel 5 might be as little as round 800,000 models. Google has reportedly given a comparatively conservative forecast for the flagship cellphone this 12 months as Google Pixel 4 didn’t promote properly final 12 months, and the market demand this 12 months has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

Nevertheless, the manufacturing quantity is topic to adjustment relying on how the market reacts after the telephones are launched, Nikkei Asia added.

Alphabet’s Google shipped 7.2 million Pixel smartphones final 12 months as per analysis firm IDC, falling wanting the corporate’s goal of eight to 10 million models, acknowledged the report. For the primary six months of 2020, Google shipped simply 1.5 million smartphones, a pointy drop from the identical interval final 12 months, when Google bought four.1 million models, confirmed the information.

The sources additionally instructed the publication that Google’s plan additional suffered as COVID-19 brought on a delay in manufacturing of the Pixel 4a. Though lower-priced fashions just like the Pixel 4a have smaller margins, they assist increase cargo volumes.

The coronavirus pandemic additional disrupted Google’s diversification plan to supply all handsets, together with the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4A collection, in Vietnam this 12 months. Individuals acquainted with the matter instructed the publication that to this point solely the Pixel 4a collection had entered manufacturing there; Pixel 5 was nonetheless being manufactured in Shenzhen, China.

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