Google teases August 3 as Pixel 4A release date

We think we know quite a bit about Google’s upcoming flagship smartphone, presumably the Pixel 4A – but we didn’t have a firm idea of ​​when the thing would arrive. That changed Thursday, thanks to an ingenious provocation posted on Made by Google’s Facebook and Twitter feeds that points to a launch on August 3.

Remarkably, both accounts exchanged their header images for a mysterious text block with locked words and a telltale puncher in the upper corner, apparently in line with the Pixel’s camera design. The Twitter account bio links to a Google landing page with similarly locked text, a paragraph of placeholder text “lorem ipsum” and a rectangular placeholder where the image of a phone should be.

Here is the smart part. Click or tap those blocked words, and the color of the block will change. Change them to align with the order of colors in the Google logo: blue, red, yellow, blue, green, red, and the words are revealed to read, “Introducing to Google what Phone has been waiting for.”

Just below it? A big blue date: August 3. Consider our marked calendars.