Google Pixel 3a Complete Walkthrough: Pixel Camera for Half the Price! By TheUnlockr

And, his rising move, Google has released a cheaper version of the pixel 3 and the pixel 3 Excel. Maybe it wasn't that surprising, because it was kind of leaked all over the internet, so we kind of knew it was coming, but it still, it was a surprising move, gear needed in the live video where I tested its camera out against other devices check to see how long the battery lasts and all that other fun stuff. Throughout a day. You can check that out at the link below in this video. However, let's do a more detailed dive on everything the Pixel 3a is and do a complete walkthrough. First, especially it's a pure VPN for sponsoring this video, pure VPN, is one most affordable, VPN solutions out, starting at just three dollars and 33 cents a month, their service installs, seamlessly on Windows, Mac, Android or iOS, and allows you to browse the web anonymously as well as have all your data encrypted.

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It is still this soft touch plastic on the lower section of the back and a glossy or plastic for the top to further resemble the 3 and the 3 Excel style, and I'll say, while the pixel 3 and the 3 Excel back feels great you'd have a hard time telling anyone that the pixel 3 a feels just half as good. We have another even less noticeable difference in the materials. The front glass is not Gorilla Glass like we're used to on most phones nowadays. Instead, it's dragon trail glass, a similar product from a rival company that is much cheaper, presumably, but feels just as much as glass as the monkey variety. Now, of course, we'll have to see how this other type of glass stands up over time, but for now you're, not gonna notice, a difference.

The screen is an 18 point: 5 by 5 aspect ratio, 5.6-inch screen with a 2220 by 1080 resolution. Something to note about the screen is the fact that it will not support daydream, which Google's VR platform as according to Google. It has quote resolution and frame rate issues that make it incompatible above that screen. We don't have two front cameras like on the pixel three and three excel. Instead of the nineteen millimeter and twenty-eight millimeter equivalent cameras we had on those, we have one camera, basically in the middle of all that at twenty-four millimeters, that camera by the way, is an 8, megapixel, f, 2.0, aperture camera with one point, one: two micron sized pixels working around the device. We have our USB 2.0 type, C port at the bottom, along with one of our two dual speakers. The other is in the earpiece.

Now that USB port has support for USB power delivery, 2.0 in the form of 18 watts. We also lose support for QI charging compared to the pixel 3 and the 3 XL on the right. We have a volume rocker and our power button on the left. There is our NATO SIM slot. There is no micro, SD card slot or dual SIM by the way.

At the top, we have a welcome difference between the 3a and the 3, a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack on the back. We have our fingerprint sensor that just like on other pixels can be used to pull down the notification shade, which I love, above that we have the big thing. Everyone is talking about this phone and that's the fact that it has the same camera as the more expensive pixel 3em3 excel that have been praised even to this day is one of the best cameras on a smartphone. Now as a refresher, it's a single lens 12.2 megapixel f1 pointed aperture 28, millimeter, equivalent optically, stabilized camera, with 1.4 micron, sized pixels and dual pixel autofocus. Now they also shoot at up to 4k at 30 frames per second, with some serious electronic image.

Stabilization enabled and can do 1080p up to 60 frames per second weave modes for panorama, portrait mode nitrite, which is Google's version of night mode for brighter low-light shots using a long exposure time-lapse, Google Lens photosphere photo booth and playground, which is there AR lens. Another thing they sacrifice here is water resistance. There is no IP rating or even any equivalent in water resistance. Specs on the inside, we have a Qualcomm Snapdragon, 670 chipsets paired with 4 gigs of ram and 64 gigs of storage. There are no other choices for storage, RAM or chipset.

The only other option you have is the larger screen and more battery in the Excel version that Qualcomm 670 is a mid-range chipset and when compared to the Snapdragon 84 5 on the pixel 3 in 3dmark, the difference is noticeable. Now this means that there might be a noticeable difference in frame rates when playing games and honestly, the games that I played still ran, and I was still able to play them. It doesn't mean that there's actually a big difference in your normal day-to-day activities. Opening apps are a hair, slower scrolling is as well and image processing too, but the truth is thanks in part to the very minimalistic version of Android on all pixel devices. You won't notice it too much, especially if you don't have both phones sitting next to each other.

Like I do for battery. We have a 3000 William battery that performs ok, not amazing, but not bad. It's similar, though, to the pixel 3 and then I. Don't expect this to last me a full day with heavy use, but normal use, it'll dive, probably right before I get home, you can check out again my real-world tests for the battery and how it lasted throughout a typical day. Moving out of the software, we have what you'd expect from any pixel device, while it's technically not really stock, Android and there's not really such a thing anymore.

It's basically the closest thing. We have to anything that would resemble stock Android. That means that it has the basic Android build, which is one of my favorite versions of Android, by the way, with a very minimalistic look, the Google launcher for your home screen, and it's super responsive and very clean, because of that, like all pixel devices, it'll be upgraded to the latest versions of Android, faster than any other device out, since there is no added software that needs to be added on top of Android, like with other manufacturers, it's a lot easier for them to just roll out. The updates and Google I am promises three years of software support. Finally, the crazy thing about this device is the price.

As mentioned the pixel.3A is half the cost of the pixel 3 399, compared to $7.99 and at the time of writing is you can find an extra $1 and credits on so many places to buy it from that. It's basically $2.99, which is even more nuts honestly I'm having a hard time with this device. I feel like it's all the good things and the bad things about the pixel 3 and the 3 Excel, but because of the price being so drastically different and lower I'm more impressed by the good things, and I'm less annoyed by the bad ones. If you aren't planning to game a lot, and again it can handle games just not as well I'm having a really hard time being able to recommend to anyone, the pixel 3 and the 3 excel over the 3a or the 3a Excel, and that it is kind of blowing my mind right now. There guys hope you enjoyed that video.

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