Google Pixel 4a Review: Best One-Handed Phone of 2020! By Slashdot

Hey, what's up guys beau HD here now the Pixel 4a, it was leaked and rumored left and right for months and months, but Google wasn't able to launch it due to world events like covet 19. In fact, for a while, it seemed like Google wasn't going to launch this phone at all, but thankfully they did, and I got one, and I've been using it ever since the tldr version is that this is one of the best budget, smartphones of 2020, and it's worth it. If you don't care about the slightly boring design, the lack of wireless charging and lack of water resistance. If you don't care about those things, get this phone, the Pixel 4a. It strongly resembles the nexus 5 from way back in the day, it has a no frills plastic design. With one camera sensor and a strong emphasis on the software, we do have a headphone port, which is pretty nice to have not gonna lie, uh a rear-facing fingerprint scanner, that's fairly quick and consistent, and is especially nice to have these days since it'll work, regardless of whether you're wearing a mask or not, which you should be wearing a mask by the way.

There's a splash of color on the power button, that's cool! I guess the plastic body does pick up some smudges, but it can take a beating. I've actually thrown it around quite a bit unintentionally. It slips out of my pocket at least once a day, because it's pretty slippery, but it hasn't taken too much visible damage. So that's good and honestly, it doesn't feel too bad. It feels pretty good in the hand considering it's made of plastic, but my favorite aspect of the design is its one-handed usability in a sea of phablets, which I don't even think that's a term anymore, but basically in a sea of smartphones, with massive displays that resemble tablets, the Pixel 4a.

It stands out for being relatively small and there's not a ton of options out there for people who, like smaller phones. So if you're one of those people, I think you will like the Pixel 4a if you're not well you're kind of out of luck, there's not a pixel 4axl variant this year, so yeah, but the display it reaches all four corners of the device with pretty minimal side. Bezels. There's a cutout for the front facing camera in the upper left-hand corner that, I don't think will bother you it's an AMOLED display, which is great to see it supports those really nice contrast ratios and ultra deep black colors, and it supports a high resolution of 1080 by 2340. The downside is that it's a standard, 60 hertz refresh rate other than that this display is fine, nothing special, but definitely not bad.

Where this phone shines, though, is in the software, you get a pure version of google, with android 10 running out of the box and support for future versions of android for the next three years, which is not something to easily dismiss, and because it's so well optimized. It actually runs pretty well despite having a mid-tier snapdragon 730g chip inside. It's definitely not as fast as something like the OnePlus 8 pro that I was using before this, but animations and web pages loaded without much lag or stuttering during my usage, so it remained smooth overall, which is very important. If you do a lot of gaming, I'm not going to lie. This phone is not going to be ideal, I'm just going to put it out there.

The display isn't particularly big. The processor isn't particularly fast, and the speakers aren't particularly good. You can definitely play some of the most popular battle. Royale games, for example, but expect some graphics to be lower resolution than what you'd find on a higher end device, and you know expect some lag. The star of the show, maybe right behind the software, is the main 12.2 megapixel camera. That's the same main sensor found in the premium flagship, pixel 4.

, I've tested it in a variety of conditions, and it's delivered some great results that are a bit on the punchy side of the spectrum, but look great. Nonetheless. Now I was in some situations where I wished I'd had an ultra-wide angle lens, but I could argue that it's worth having an exceptional main camera and no additional lenses than a mediocre main sensor and an ultra-wide and telephoto sensor. Ultimately you're going to have to make that decision, but I'm really impressed with the photos I captured with this phone and this one main camera sensor, the portrait mode that relies almost entirely on software. It did a great job, feathering the edges of my subjects and blurring the correct areas out: it's not a hundred percent, and it still struggles around hair, but when it gets it right, you will think the photo was captured via a DSLR.

Now battery life is pretty darn strong. It lasts throughout most of the day on a single charge. It can get you around five hours of screen on time, which is just above average. So it's not like exceptional, but it's not bad. I will say I really wish it had wireless charging.

There were some early reports that suggested it would, but unfortunately it does not. That would be the cherry on top for someone like myself who has to dust off their USB cables. Every time I use a phone with without wireless charging, so that's kind of a bummer, the dual stereo speakers. They sound pretty good a step above some bottom of the barrel budget devices, but definitely short of the flagships on the market. Overall, Google has kept with the same general formula it had with the Google Pixel 3a, which went on to be our favorite phone of 2019.

This is a very good phone that could absolutely be worth it if you value the software and the capabilities of the main camera, but it doesn't have quite the same appeal as the Pixel 3a in my opinion, and that's really just because it hasn't really upped the ante for 2020 by including, like another highly requested, feature like it did last year when it brought over the same camera as the flagship, pixel 3. I think the one feature that would have really upped the appeal factor for me would be to bring wireless charging, especially for a device that costs 349. Um, but sadly it does not have wireless charging with. That said, though uh they are launching this phone for 349 dollars, which is 50 less than the Pixel 3a when it was first launched. So I honestly can't complain too much.

I think wireless charging would have been great, but I don't know 50 bucks in my pocket is also pretty nice too. So, but once again, this is one of the very best budget phones of 2020, and it's definitely worth it. If you like, I said, don't care about the slightly boring design, lack of wireless charging and lack of water resistance. So if you're interested in this device I'll place a link down below in the description with that said, I'm beau HD from phonedugg. com hope you enjoyed this video.

Thank you for watching, and I'll see you right back here in the next one see ya.

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