GOOGLE PIXEL 4A 5G - Midrange Monster! By TT Technology

Today we're reviewing the Google Pixel 4a 5g and that's coming up right after this. If you're new here and want to stay up to date with the latest tech. Please hit subscribe, followed by the bell. You can also keep up on Facebook, Instagram & Twitter by clicking the links in the description. , so after plenty of uncertainty throughout the year, we now have the Google Pixel 4a 5g to review now. This review is for you, guys and after a week of use, it's time to tell you the good and the bad before we get started, though.

Please like the video, if you're a fan of google. Let me know in the comments what device you're watching this video on, but the Pixel 4a 5g is here and, to be honest, it's better than I expected it to be. It's been a very different strategy for Google this year and I think it is actually for the best they're now using the pixel to try and cater for the whole of the smartphone budget range from the Pixel 4a at the bottom end, the 485g in the middle, and then we've got the pixel 5 at the top. Thanks to the changes, though, it's now easier than ever to pick the right pixel for you, and today I'm going to try and help you do that we start off with the unboxing. It's the same packaging that we used to and no different to any of the other recent pixel.

If we open it up, we first get the Pixel 4a 5g and, I have to say it's a great looking device. Although the bezels are slightly thicker than that of the five next we've got the manual along with the sim tool, followed by the power plug USB cable and USB-C to USB-C adapter, the USB-C cable. What makes life incredibly easy is you can connect your new pixel to your old android smartphone, and it's going to transfer over all of your apps, your data and your passwords. All you need to do on your new pixel, 4a 5g is simply put in your Google password. If we take a look at the design first, you can see, we've got a full screen display, and then we've got the punch hole, selfie camera in the top left.

The thing I like here is just how thin the bezels are, although, unlike the pixel 5, there is a larger chin at the bottom than the top, so they aren't symmetrical all the way around. If that is something that bothers you, we get a 6.2 inch OLED display with a full HD plus resolution of 1080 by 2340 and an aspect ratio of 19 and a half. So this gives us 413 pixels per inch. It's a 60 hertz, always on display with HDR support and one million to one contrast ratio and is protected by gorilla glass 3. It's a full 24 bit color depth with 16 million colors, so it provides us with a bright vibrant display.

Experience that we've pretty much grown to expect from any smartphone the punch hole in the top left is for an 8, megapixel selfie camera. It's a fixed focus, 1.12 micrometer sensor with an aperture of f 2.0. It's got an 83 degree field of view, and it's actually the same selfie camera you'll, find on the 4a and the pixel 5, and actually the whole of the pixel range this year has many specs in common on the back. The most notable change is, of course, the return of a physical fingerprint scanner. I'm incredibly happy to see this return, and it just makes unlocking the phone so much easier.

I can press the button, the phone unlocks in seconds and there's no hassle at all with the 3d face unlock and the solid radar chip in the pixel 4 and the 4xl were a good idea in theory. In practice, they just didn't work. No apps really adopted the new technology and all it really did was taken away the biometric security from many of our favorite apps. The fingerprint scanner is indented, so we can find it easily. It works every time and it works quickly.

You'll also notice we're back to a dual camera setup, along with the LED flash now. The main sensor is a 12.2 megapixel and 1.4 micrometer sensor. It's got dual pixel phase, detect autofocus optical and electronic stabilization. It's got an aperture of f 1.7 and also a 77 degree field of view. Now I could praise this camera before I'd even use the phone as it's actually the same primary camera.

We had in the pixel 4 the 4xl, the 4a and even the pixel 5. Now, while many might complain that that's lazy, and they did want to see a new camera. In actual fact, there's not really any need. Compare the pixel phones to another camera phone on the market, and they do still do a great job. They're consistently praised for good photography, so there's no need to change something that works and something that works very well great news for me.

However, is that the secondary camera, unlike the telephoto we saw in its predecessor, is our 16 megapixel one micrometer ultra-wide camera? It's got a 107 degree field of view and an aperture of f 2.2, and this allows us to get our 0.6 times zoom, while some people do prefer the zoom. If much prefer the wide angle, as I think I can zoom in post and to be honest. Zooming on a smartphone just doesn't tend to work full stop. The camera allows for 4k video at 30 or 60 frames a second, and we get 1080p at 30, 60, 120 or even 240 for those who care about dimensions, it's 144.7 by 70.4 by 8 millimeters, and it weighs 151 grams. We get 8 gigabytes of ram with gig storage, which, while it doesn't seem like much google, do give you the option for unlimited photos in google photos as long as you store them at high quality, and this is free for all pixel users.

It's all powered by a snapdragon g, which is slightly better than the 4a 730. Now the 765g is a fully capable chipset, and it's plenty powerful enough for general use and, of course, all of your photography and for those casual gamers, you're still able to play all the latest 3d games, and it just helps bring the cost down for Google, which makes a cheaper phone for you. Well, it is a little faster than the Pixel 4a chipset. To be honest, there isn't really that much in it. Apart from, of course, this chipset has the advantage of 5g onto the 5g.

It supports sub 6 gigahertz bands, but it doesn't support millimeter wave and it, of course, will support the usual LTE bands and lower now, while I would have loved to have given you a 5g speed test at this point. Unfortunately, my network doesn't give me 5g, so I cannot do it now. Battery capacity for this is 3885 William hours, and it supports 18 watt fast charging, but there's no wireless charging. Personally, I was hoping for a little bump in fast charging us. This is the same as the predecessor, but we've also got extreme battery saver on the Pixel 4a 5g.

So you've got a normal battery save and then, if you need it, you've got the extreme battery save which basically stops most of your apps, and it even slows down the processor. Now this can supposedly deliver up to 48 hours battery life, but I haven't had a chance to fully test it. Yet we've got stereo speakers thanks to a cool speaker and a bottom firing speaker here, and I actually prefer the speaker on the 4a5g than I do to the pixel 5. If I listen to them both side by side, then they are very similar, but the Pixel 4a 5g actually sounds slightly better than the 5. Now there's not much in it and I think what it's actually down to is the Pixel 4a 5g has a larger body than the five and this might be helping with sound production.

It's going to be interesting to see if anyone else shares this opinion, but, to be honest, as I said, it's very close, and I would say they're just average mobile speakers- they're not bad, but they're. Also, nothing special. The Pixel 4a 5g has dual microphones for video recording and calls, so the additional microphone helps to get better audio and also helps with noise suppression. We've of course got Bluetooth, 5, dual-band Wi-Fi and the pixel 5. It comes with android 11.

When it comes to general use. It's great. It gives us the stock android experience we're used to in a much improved body, it's fast and responsive, although it is only a 60 hertz display, and it's great that we don't get all the bloatware that you would find in many other manufacturers firmware for your general use in even gaming. Furthermore, it's going to work very well and because it's Google, we get at least three years of software updates, and that is guaranteed. Now most of you watching.

This video have probably used stock android before so. You know the good experience it brings, but the most important thing to most people here is going to be the camera and, as you might expect, it's incredible, it gives us the beautiful pixel photography that we're used to, and it's no surprise that, given the same primary cameras, of course, software updates do continue to improve that performance. So we will be taking a look on here. We can go from 0.6 times, zoom, all the way up to seven times zoom using the slider in the camera app, and this works for both picture and video. Now, as we've got an ultra-wide instead of a telephoto.

This is, unfortunately, all digital zoom. As most of you guys that know that watch a lot of my videos. I hate digital zoom, so I won't be using it. But if you want to see why this is the reason we zoom in, we lose all detail, we get camera shake, and it looks more like a painting on the other side of that I am a huge fan of this 0.6 times ultrawide. Personally, I always need more in the frame, while other phones out there are giving you three four five or even six different cameras.

I think pixel have the right idea, give us two cameras but make them good. Now. I've only had this phone for about a week, but, as you can see, the quality of the photos is great and no different to any of the others. We get great dynamic range. We've got more natural, color tones and incredible sharpness and detail.

I've taken loads of photos in daylight and night, and you can see the high level of detail and colors, and they're actually true to form. As in what I saw in real life and not over saturated, as I've said, I stay away from the zoom and personally, if you do want to use some zoom, then I'd suggest doing it in post as it's no different to using the digital zoom on the pixel 4 a5g we've got the live, HDR plus with exposure controls. So this means that what we see in our viewfinder is exactly what the image is. Gonna look like, so we know before taking the photo. I've even tried some close-up shot for those of you that may be missing a macro lens and, as you can see, it's even done a great job.

Here, we've got great focus all round, although there is a little of loss away from the center when it comes to the portrait both shots. It's also done an incredible job here and really found at the edge of the subject. We've got all of our in focus and a nice clean, cut blur background. The great thing about the pixels is that, as well as giving us this both image, we also get the standard, blurred image and can switch between the two. Next, we move on to the nighttime photography and Google's night shot mode is incredible: it really brightens up the images and gives us better qualities than we'd even be seeing with our eyes.

The downside is, it takes a little longer to shoot the photo, but only a few seconds now the light mode really does make it look like you've taken a picture with a huge flash, or you're holding some sort of huge light, and it brightens things up without noise. This video here shows you the area I was in, and actually the light level that I was seeing, and you can see it is very hard to see you can see from all the night sight photos, though, there's a huge difference between normal and night mode, and it brings in so much light in detail and, surprisingly, there's not really any noise that you'd expect from adding this much brightness when it comes to video. It also has great performance here. It gives us incredible detail: natural, looking videos and great stabilization. Best of all we've now got 4k videos at 60 frames a second even on the 4a 5g, but you can see from the video that everything stays nice and in focus.

There's no camera shake, even while I'm walking and again, while recording videos that we can change between 0.6 to 7 times zoom, and it's great that we can switch between lenses while recording, and it does it in a relatively smooth fashion. Unfortunately, for those that wanted to in the standard camera while you're recording you can't then switch to the selfie camera, you do have to stop. The video first. Give it away now when it comes to the 765g chipset many seem to think that you're not going to be able to game, but they're. Actually, wrong phones have become very powerful these days and while you won't see the same high scores in synthetic benchmarks, and you'd get for something like an 865 in real world use, they're great.

Even for gaming, I first tested it with PUBG. Mobile, went straight into settings, turned up the graphics and the frame rate to high, as that's all the game supports at the moment, and there would no need to make any changes from this as when opening it up. It plays perfectly. As you can see, it runs perfectly smooth runs great. This is expected, because I did this on the 5, and it's the same.

Chipset again. I installed Call of Duty mobile put it on max detail. There was no need to change anything as the game looks great, and it runs buttery smooth. I, like the punch, hole camera being in the top left again because it's not noticeable my hands actually covering it up most of the time, and it just makes it for a pleasant experience. Finally, we head to asphalt 9, where again it worked perfectly in full detail, but I have to say there was a little of frame drop and I had this on the pixel 5 and the 4a as well.

So I was expecting this when I drop it down to medium. It runs much better. This frame rate is higher, but again it was a little different. As I just come off a 90 hertz display. You do notice that 60 hertz experience now for those of you who do care about synthetic benchmarks, I ran it through geek bench 5, where we got a single core score of 598 and a multi-core score of 1 623.

To put that into perspective, the 5 scores 585 single and 1563 multi, the 4a got 551 single and 1651 multi and finally, the Pixel 4 XL gets 706 single 2, 354 multi. Now, of course, the Pixel 4 XL going to top the list because of the snapdragon 855, and some of you may be wondering why this 4a5g gets a higher score than the 5. Well, I think the reason is that they're both the same resolution, they both got the same chipset, but this is a 60hz display, whereas the pixel 5 is 90, so I'm assuming the pixel 5 is needing more power for those frames and where it's losing its score now. Battery life for the phone is great. Some worry about smaller batteries, but it easily lasted me the day with general use and with 18 watt, quick charging.

It doesn't take long to charge back up when I go walking. As I always tell you guys, I use two separate apps one to guide me one to record my walk and both are using GPS. On top of that and taking lots of photos, I haven't needed to use battery save or extreme battery save, but I'm glad that there is a backup now, overall, it's an incredible device, and while I do like the Pixel 4a 5g, I think the pixel 5 is the right choice. For me, I like the size of the Pixel 4a 5g, and I actually prefer it to the 5, but I've just gotten so used to 90 hertz displays and wireless charging that I would be stuck without it. Of course, it's now great that there really is a pixel for everyone.

So if that's not the case for you, it doesn't matter we're now at a stage where there are so many pixels, and they are all quite similar. So while it may get confusing, I'm going to quickly break it down. If we look at the Pixel 4a, the 4a 5g and the pixel 5, they will have the same primary sensor, so they're all going to take very similar photos and the only difference is the 4a has the single camera, whereas the 485g and the pixel 5 have the dual cameras. Now the 4a is at the bottom pricing at 350 pounds or 350 dollars, but its incredible value for those who want a cheap phone that still takes good photos. We've then got the Pixel 4a 5g at 499 pounds or 499 dollars, and then finally, you've got the pixel 5, which is 599 pounds or 699 dollars.

Now between the 485 g and the 5, there are only a few differences while there are a few creators dismissing the 5. As I said, I do quite like it. The 485 g has the 6.2 inch display over the pixel 5 6 inches, and that is an advantage for me. But apart from that, the pixel 5 you get a 90 hertz display. You've got gorilla glass 6.

Instead of this gorilla glass 3 you get wireless charging and reverse wireless charging, and it's also ip68 water resistant, whereas the 485g is not. That being said, especially in the USA, with 200 cheaper, it is a big saving going for the 4a5g. So if those features don't appeal to you, then definitely go for this, so that's pretty much it. For today's video I mean the links to this. Are down in the description below but as always I'd like to know your thoughts in the comments who out there is going to order a pixel and if not, what phone are you waiting for? But thanks for watching the video, if you liked it smash the thumbs up, if you didn't hit the thumbs down twice, and I'll, see you guys in the next one you.

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