Google Pixel 3a Review // AN AMAZING VALUE By The Search For Awesome

Google had some interesting words when describing the new Pixel 3a. Let's talk about that headphone jack. We debate it on this headphone jack, but we really felt that consumers at this price point and this price tear really needed. Flexibility well, I felt a little condescending, please, my lord may we have a cheaper phone. Fine here, yeah hey! This is the Pixel 3a. It's for $1, don't bother them anymore.

First off a headphone jack, isn't exactly a budget feature. It's just a feature that people like and Google wireless headphones. Aren't that expensive in the description below I have two that are reviewed recently: they're, both under 20 bucks, and they're, pretty good all the information below, but is the pixel 3/8, really a poor man's phone nope MMM nunu? It's like this. The pixel 3/8 is a cake where the Baker focused more on the icing than the actual cake, but hey I. Like icing hi, there I'm Titus.

We talk tech around here, and today we are checking out the Pixel 3a. The design of the Pixel 3a is not bad at all. Actually, mostly plastic I went with the purplish option, but there are two other colors black and white, but with their own unique names. The glass on the front felt a little different to me, like cheaper yeah, cheaper, almost like a plastic kind of feeling, but it's not. It may not be Gorilla Glass, which is the standard these days and high-end phones, but it's still a shy dragon true, which, admittedly, is a pretty sweet name.

A shy dragon trail nice. According to phone arena, it's pretty good glass, but maybe a touch below Gorilla Glass, but still nice enough. Overall, the build definitely doesn't feel premium, but it doesn't really feel cheap either, but there were some corners cut here. The processor inside is the snapdragon 670, the storage is slower, and it just has 4 gigabytes of RAM I did a benchmark on Geek bench and in terms of speed from the snapdragon 670. This phone is a good bit slower than the previous year's pixel 2 and just a tad bit slower than the galaxy s a two-year-old phone.

But despite this, the experience is still good. I, like the speed of mine, 1, +, 60 more but still I'm impressed. So the cake here is decent. It may not be the most delicious and moist cake I've ever had, but it's a decent surface for some delicious icing and that's where the Pixel 3a shines. It's got some good icing.

The screen looks perfect to my eyes. It's crisp with nice colors, it's Sleds, so I sort of expect that, but I don't normally see a no LED screen and a phone of this price and the camera packed in the Pixel 3a is the exact same camera. That's in the pixel 3, which pixel 3 is known to have one of the best cameras around and yeah the shots. Look really nice and my opinion. The pixel camera isn't trying to produce the best image possible necessarily but trying to create the most accurate one.

They may try to touch up the image a little here and make the colors pop slightly there, but again I think it's really about the accuracy. Well, I have to take a picture, and then I look at what I was taking a picture of I. Look back at the picture, and I'm like huh: they nailed it. It's just true to what I'm, seeing with my eyes- and it looks pretty great. Even the video is great at up to 4k 30 frames per second and the audio quality isn't bad at all either.

So this is the pixel 3 A's camera 4k running at 30 frames per second air-conditioning run behind me and, as I mentioned before, the Pixel 3a has a headphone jack, which was an odd addition. Considering it just made peace with the death of the headphone jack late last year and I have to say it was refreshing being able to plug my headphones directly into my phone again, but because of that headphone jack I actually found out that this phone is a decent bit durable, yeah, I sort of got used to not having a wire attached to my phone anymore, and this isn't I didn't know going into trying this phone out. The pixel 3 actually has stereo speakers, sure it's a wonky setup with the front speaker firing at you and the bottom speaker firing away from you still I have to, say: I, love, serious speakers. It's nice to have it back, and they sound pretty good and loud yeah I'm, not perfect I mean they still are phone speakers, but pretty good for a phone I. Also like the size of the phone.

It's really skinny, and it's clearly designed with one hand, use in mind. Furthermore, it's been a long time since I've used a phone that is this small and I kinda miss it, maybe not enough to make a small phone mine daily driver, but anyway notice, skinny width, wise, but it's also nice and tall. So videos and games play really nice. Also with this slower processor, you really shouldn't worry about the gaming experience so much, because what I've seen it's pretty good I played several games that had pretty strong graphics that played smoothly the room asphalt, nine dead trigger to forward not even of those fortnight struggles, the most, but it's playable is. The other games play fine, but I will say that I've seen better game performance on more powerful phones and all the features that are still exclusive to pixel or here on the Pixel 3a, which I have a video talking about.

Why I? Don't think that's necessary good idea right here, but these are perfect exclusive features like call screening the pixel launcher and squeezing to activate Google Assistant, I have to admit it is really nice getting to use those cutting edge features straight from Google I'm, not quite used to pixels approach to Android, with just the one home button and the one back button. So I went to go, try to switch it to a more traditional Android setup and from what I've seen you can't at this time switch it I did some research and on the previous pixel 3, it's a pulse to have an option under gestures to change this, but as it stands today, it's just not there, but on the bright side, I did find this sick tutorial on the Google Pixel help page okay, so it's laid down then I just pick it up. That's nice I did use to the pixel tax bar and here's a really cool feature on it. That I just discovered. If you set your phone to not automatically rotate when you rotate your phone, there's a nice little button that pops up letting you switch the rotation when it senses it.

I love that, to be honest, there really isn't much that I don't like about this phone I guess. My only real concern with the Pixel 3a is how it's going to age in the future. Now I'll give Google credit, maybe the Google software engineers out there can work their coding magic and keep this phone bumping for years, but with that four gigs of RAM, which is also what the pixel 3 has by the way that just feels a little low this day and age. When my phone I bought nearly three years ago, the OnePlus three had six gigs of RAM. From my experience, Ram is definitely something that can impact how a phone ages over time, but it's not just the RAM.

Also, the pixel three has a slower type of storage called an MMC which is also a concern. The original pixel 3 had a faster storage option and experienced slowdowns just a few months into use and Google seemed to think that it was related to the storage fees. Admittedly, they've seemed to have patched this issue, but with this slower storage, let's just say, I'm a little concerned, but with that said right now, it's a great phone I think a year from now it'll still be a great phone, but beyond that, it'll probably still be a good phone. I'll just say this. If Google came to me and told me that they were gonna, make a new phone with an awesome camera, a great screen and a smaller price tag, but with a significantly slower processor I would have said guys.

Are you sure about this? But after using it, it seems like Google has cut the right corners, because the experience is perfect. Using a pixel 3, a has kind of made me rethink, buying premium smartphones, because if I can get a phone of this quality at half the price I mean he's just getting tougher, justifying that premium price tag that clip I showed earlier was from an interview with a Google rep talking about how they are positioning. The 3, a and I just think it's some wrong to say that this phone is for people who can't afford a much more expensive phone I get that that wasn't the exact words that they used, but the insinuation was there. I mean I think that this phone is really for anyone. It's a good phone.

Can you get a better experience for more money, I mean sure, but for a lot of people, this phone is so much more than just good enough? Thank you so much for watching. Let me know what you thought with a like or a dislike and subscribe, because I have more quality tech videos coming up very soon, I think the next one is going to be the one plots bullets Wireless too and I'm still working on my studio, chair, I'm I'll. Try that out as soon as I can, but thank you so much again, and I guess: I will see you next time.

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