https://wccftech.com/pixel-3a-sales-google-shipments-doubled/

Since three generations, Google just focused on the upper-tier pricing segment of the smartphone market, not realizing the potential of the lower bracket, which is dominated by the likes of Xiaomi and Huawei. With the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL launch, Google finally understood what that market may have meant. During Alphabet’s Q2 2019 financial results, the search giant admitted that Pixel 3a sales is what helped it garner twice as many smartphone shipments in this quarter.

Pixel 3a sales have not just helped Google realize that there’s an entire market left for grabs, it has also motivated it to introduce successors down the road. During its Q2 2019 earnings call, Google specifically mentioned how well its smartphone division did.