Google Pixel 3a and 3a XL unboxing & first impressions By Tech Advisor

Hello and welcome to tech advisor where we have a couple of gifts from Google: the new Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL, I'm, going to unbox, the pair of them, and take a look at what makes these so special and just why these might be some of our favorite phones of 2019. So far from what we've seen so, let's get going ok, so we have both new models of the Pixel 3a. If you're not aware, this is basically Google's new kind of budget mid-range version of the pixel 3 line, if you're anything like us, that's really exciting, because it's kind of like back wanting to do the Nexus phones, which were really nice, affordable, sort of stock, Android, Google phones when they switch to pixel. They went straight up into the sort of you know nearly like thousand-pound thousand dollar pricing. Later we got high-end devices. These are much more affordable, but still do everything you want from a pixel device, including the camera.

So we'll look at the regular 3a first, so there we go okay. Here we have the Google Pixel 3a, peel, that off okay right there. It is now. This looks really familiar if you've seen a Google Pixel 3. This looks a lot like a Google Pixel 3.

It's got the same sort of two-tone finish to the rear. This is a white model. This comes with a sort of orange accent, button I've, actually, a white regular, pixel 3. You can see they're slightly different, but oddly very, very similar. The sizing was real, different we're going to it more we're going to do a proper comparison of the 3 and the 3.

An in a separate video, so there'll be a link to that. So check that out, you can see the colors slightly different, but broadly, like they've kept the style pretty much the same. This looks like pretty much the same sort of fun. Let's look at what else we get in the box before we delve into the rest of the future set. So we have a sim key and user guide.

Hashtag team pixel stickers slap, those on anyone, else Android phones, charging, USB charging as you'd expect and a USB, that's close, can I, give it out yeah there we go use PC to an adapter, and this must be the actual charging brick yeah. So this is also. This is the same charging capacity. This is an 18 watt charger, which is exactly the same as what you get in the regular pixel 3. So exactly the same charging speeds that you would get from the higher end devices now I'll quickly get the XL out.

So we can look at how these two models compare in terms of the sizing. Now the XL is, where we'll start to see a little more difference from the regular pixel 3 XL as we'll see in a sec. So here we go. We got this one in black. It's satisfying peel again! Alright! Here we go so as we can see, the XL is surprisingly enough.

Extra large. It is bigger than the regular model, but otherwise very similar, same sort of design. There's a third color we don't have here, which is the actual brand-new color to the lineup, which is purple is. It's a very sort of light. Lilac II finish.

This is that these two colors are basically the same as what you get with the regular three. The one you're not getting is that you can get the pixel 3 in not pink, so you can no longer get not pink for the 3a, but instead you can get purplish. As you can see, this is like I said this is where you start to see a bit of a difference from the regular pixel 3 line, because if you remember the pixel 3, you have the sort of design for the regular pixel three, but the pixel three XL actually has a notch display much slimmer, bezels that sort of thing, whereas on the three AXL we have the same as old design as the regular pixel three and as the regular three see this one wasn't turning on I'm gone. Oh, this one seems to have come without any charge. That's weird! Huh! Okay, nobody just finished it with some charging.

As you all know, this one is not turning on. Hopefully, that's not broken phone, so I will run through everything else with our Excel model. Okay, so let's put the twee over here. So here we go. We are in with the three Excel I'll just run through setup really quickly, so we can get it going and show you what you get and what you don't get compared to the regular pixel three models.

What's nice is the most important thing the camera is pretty much the same. So this is the exact same 12.2 megapixel sensor that you'll find in the regular pixel three models and all the software is the same as well sort of see with the pixel Hardware. Everyone really loves the pixel 3 camerae, and it was really made a name for itself with a pixel line for its camera, but not from a hardware perspective. It's never been the lenses that they've really pushed. It's always been the software underlying or, and they can use that software to get some of the best photography around.

Even though the actual hardware is just kind of you know, fine, but I mean a 12 point. Two megapixel sensor, you know like you, can buy a phone with a 48 megapixel sensor in it, you can buy ones with three lenses all this stuff. This is one lens relatively low, pixel count, but it does the job, and what's brilliant about this phone? Is its the same lens? It's the same software. This should, in theory, be just as good a camera as you're getting in the pixel 3/4 out half the price, which is crazy, so yep we go in here we go yeah. As you can see, I mean that the downside is design-wise.

This is kind of blocky in terms of the bezels, especially that one at the bottom. That's purely chunky once we're in we're in that kind of familiar pixel design, which is kind of stock Android. But then, with a few extra, it's not really kind of true stock. It's its own sort of special pixel thing that you can't get anywhere else, but it's clean. It's lovely I'm, a big fan of stock OS I know most other sort of tech.

Journalists tend to be if you're coming from an iPhone, it can be a bit jarring, it's very different, but if you're a fan of Android, this is for our many kinds of as good as Android gets. Let's get into the camera, which is really the cell, so yeah, you know we go in, and it's exactly the same camera app. We should be getting exactly the same quality. The other thing we have contra show you here because we're not in Iceland lip studio space, but nitrite is here as well, so that was the sort of dark shooting mode again entirely. Software driven the Google introduced on the pixel 3 since been imitated a lot with night modes now popping up on various other phones.

It's basically using sort of multiple exposures to try and get the lighting perfect for night shots. It means you don't need the flash. Furthermore, it means I mean it's basically magic. If you look at the shots, you can take in an almost pitch-black room and still the phone somehow finds enough light there to catch a detail in color and again that is here in this phone. Even though this foam is yeah about half the price, the 3a is 399 pounds of dollars.

The XL is 469 pounds $479. So considering that, if you want to get one of the regular threes you're in that, like eight hundred nine hundred pound dollar range, that's a huge difference and given that most people buying those phones are buying it for the cameras, but the cameras here, it's almost seeming like it completely undermines the main pixel three line, because it's really hard to recommend buying one of those. Now that you get this, so what else is different between the two? There are some things: the 3/8 don't have that the regular threes do the big ones are waterproofing and wireless charging. Those are still in that kind of flagship, spec space that you aren't going to find on a phone, a low 500 pounds below $500 by and large and Google has stuck with that. So you lose those they're nice to haves for me, they're, not essential, maybe you're totally used to wireless charging, and you can't imagine giving it up.

Maybe you're constantly dropping your phone in the bath, so you can't imagine giving up waterproofing, but for most people probably fun to live without the other thing. You're missing is on cameras is one difference. Is there's no group selfie cam, so the regular pixel three's have two selfie lenses. They have a regular one, and they have a wide-angle for if you want to do group selfies. This just has the one forward facing camera, so you won't be able to do this sort of big group.

Selfies, but again I mean it's a nice thing to have. Is it essential? Probably not one nice thing you get them here, you don't on the more expensive phones, there's a headphone jack, always nice to see ya and me. Think the fact is that the body is ever so slightly thicker on these phones. Maybe that's. What's allowed them the space to fit that headphone jack back in I'm, not entirely sure, either way it's nice to see, and so again this might be another reason that actually for you, this might be a more compelling purchase than the three even not taking into account the price, because you get this camera and a headphone jack, which is your know the dream between the two three-a models: there's not a lot to pick if you're sort of trying to decide which one you want to get like I said, unlike with the threes you're, getting the same design on the front this time previously.

So if you have to pick well, you get bezels on the pixel three, and you get the notch on the XL this time, the Front's the same. It's this big, bezel, II design, either way, if there's no choice there. Essentially it comes down to just two factors which is screen size. It's five point: six inches on the smaller one, six inches on the larger one and a battery capacity, 3000 William hours or 3700 William hours. This one, the XL, needs a slightly bigger battery for the bigger display.

Even so, it should see a better battery life than the small one, so yeah battery and bigger screen is what you're getting internal specs are the same they're, both 64 gigabytes of storage, 4, gigabytes of RAM and then running a Snapdragon 670 processor, so that is sort of the big hardware downgrade from the original 3s, which run the Snapdragon 805. That's a flagship chip, not the absolute latest Snapdragon, that's the 855, but still it was sort of last year's flagship. The 670 is very mid-range, but for most people that will do it will mean that some camera stuff might take a bit longer sort of all that software processing side will run a tiny bit slower than it does on the regular pixels, probably not enough to really notice the quality you'll get at the end of it will still be the exact same, no matter what so and they both come in the same set of three colors white black purplish, so yeah. If you're, trying to pick between the two basically screen size is the main thing and maybe bad for your capacity, if that's going to be a big driver view, but they've both got a team of fast children, so you can keep them topped up pretty quickly. So I said really it just comes down to do you want it to be smaller or bigger, and that's the choice you've got to make if you're trying to pick between these two and, if you're, trying to pick between these or the pixel three check out a rather video.

But, to be honest, like you know, the TLDR is yeah, buy one of these, my unless you're really desperate for a group, selfie, cam or waterproofing, like these look really great, as you can see, we just unbox them, so we're going to go and test them out more thoroughly for next couple weeks. We'll have full reviews up at some point. Hopefully some more videos v2 but yeah. These are the Pixel 3a and three AXL so far, I'm a real fan like and subscribe check out the pixel 3 comparison, video and yes stay tuned for more, thanks. You.

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