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Google on Wednesday unveiled a pair of new phones: the $699 Pixel 5 and the Pixel 4A 5G, the search giant’s first foray into 5G devices. The Pixel 5 is Google’s follow-up to last year’s last year’s flagship, and the other new phone is a companion to the Pixel 4A, a budget device introduced last month. The main theme of the release was affordability, a world away from where Google stood four years ago. 

In 2016, the tech giant’s newly appointed hardware chief, Rick Osterloh, stood on a stage in San Francisco and unveiled a product that many people in the industry never thought would come: a…