Google Pixel 3a / 3a XL one-month review: The People's Pixels By Android Central

A common complaint in Google's pixel phones is that they don't do enough to justify their high price tags. So what if you get most of what makes a pixel great for significantly less cash I've, been using the Google Pixel 3a and 3a Excel for the past months, and I've got to say outside of one or two relatively small areas. This has been a really faithful recreation of what I enjoyed so much about the regular pixel, 3 and pixel 3 excel. In fact, depending on your priorities, there are a few good points for buying these instead of the more expensive Google phones. So this time we've got a 5.6 inch, Pixel 3a and a 6-inch pixel 3 AXL both run a snapdragon 670 processors, which is basically an under clocked version of the higher-end snapdragon 710, with 4 gigs around 64 gigs of storage. Both are plastic, though you wouldn't really know it from the hand feel compared to the metal and glass pixel threes.

The biggest towel actually is the weight going from the humungous 190 gram, 1 + 7 pro the Pixel 3a XL feels almost comically light. It's kind of a refreshing change, oh, and you get a real actual 3.5 millimeter headphone jack ? I'm, mainly using wireless headphones these days, but I know this will make a lot of people happy. Just don't hold your breath this feature to carry over to the pixel for later in the year. As for audio visuals, the lack of front-facing speakers makes these phones large bottom bezels that little tougher to justify, but the volume and richness of the sound from the bottom firing speaker and the earpiece tweeter is pretty decent. You won't be able to fill out an entire room with the sample of 3 all 3 XL, but it's also not as tinny as you might expect from a cheaper handset.

The displays they're fine, nothing special in direct sunlight, but perfectly serviceable 1080p panels in both models and no not, though that does come at the expense of larger bezels on both sides. The something else these phones have the regular pixels, don't bigger batteries, the Delta with a smaller pixel 3, a versus the pixel 3, isn't huge less than a hundred William hours, in fact, but with a less power-hungry chip. The 3a is able to last longer and the 37 hundred million power in the 3x L is almost 10 percent, bigger than that of its Big Brother again consider these are running well power chips, and it's not surprising that I'm getting pretty great battery life out of both them, noticeably better than the more expensive pixel siblings for both sizes. It's around an hour of extra use for the way I use them. I wasn't exactly getting terrible battery life out of the pixel 3xl, but I do appreciate the extra safety net.

The 3/8 XL gives me what I'm, using it out and about both pixel three A's ship with the same 18, more USB PD charger as the high-end models for reasonably quick refills, though unfortunately, there's no wireless charting included the bigger deal with these new pixels is what isn't different compared to the three and three XL going back to using. This is a very familiar experience. All the Google features like assistant now playing for finding songs. In the background and, of course, the pixel launcher are exactly as I expected to find them. The Pixel UI is still great, and it's still my favorite way to experience Android.

It's also important is that these phones come with Google's three-year update promise, you're, guaranteed speedy platform updates until the middle of 2022, which is pretty much unique for phones in this price bracket. Another thing largely unchanged, is the exceptional pixel camera experience. These are basically the pixel 3s cameras were the same HDR+ goodness. That makes that camera. So damn good, you do lose the optional wide-angle selfie camera, but the single front-facing camera has a focal length.

That's right in the middle of the pixel threes, regular and wide-angle front faces, so you kind of get the best of both worlds. I don't need to tell you that the pixel 3 takes phenomenal photos, even in low-light, with the still excellent night sight mode. The same processing is running on these phones only because the process is slower and there's no dedicated pixel visual core. That processing takes a little longer, and it means it's easy to get the pixel 3 a to kind of throttle down when taking a bunch of pictures in quick succession. It also means that computationally intensive things like portrait shots and nitrite shots do take a little longer and because you're still limited to just four gigs of RAM, the Pixel 3a will quickly dump apps out of memory in the background when you're using the camera, so the pixel 3 A's camera isn't exactly the same.

It is slower and frankly, the fact there's only one camera front and back is a compromise in itself these days, plenty of other companies are quite happy to sell you a dual camera phone around the same price point. So there are a couple of things at play here. First, these new, cheaper pixels are able to faithfully recreate much of the pixel free experience, because so much of what makes those phones great is the software and not the hardware. On the other hand, it's kind of always been the case that high-end pixels have targeted higher price points in the hardware alone could justify pixels whenever the greatest value phones, never the best in terms of raw speed, storage capacity, battery life or the like. Google has always liked to pretend the normal rules of hardware.

Specs didn't apply to them so whether the pixel three A's unique combination of strengths make it the best phone for the price is certainly debatable for think it depends on where you are in the world in markets like India, you can get a one plus seven with higher specs fast software updates and a comparable camera for much less with me. Personally, though, if I was in the market for something around the 399 mark in the US I'd have a hard time recommending anything besides the Pixel 3a Series. That's it for now hit the subscribe button for more pixel and Android Q coverage coming soon and head to android central. com for a full written review. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time, you.

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