Google Pixel 4a Review: The Best Phone of 2020 (For The Price) By ReviewTechUSA

The, Google Pixel 4a may be the best smartphone deal ever, and it may be one of my favorite phones of all time. Let's get into it, there is a catch, though. So, if you remember about a year ago, I reviewed the Google Pixel 4 XL and for its price. I wasn't a fan, it was a cool phone, it had the high refresh rate screen, 90 hertz. It could take good stills, but the video quality on it was mediocre for the price anyway, and the battery life was atrocious. It was bad and there's no way.

I could justify recommending that phone when you could have gotten an iPhone 11, even the 64 gigabyte, one which offered a much better camera better night mode and was all around just a much better phone. But now google has come out with the Pixel 4a and for 350 bucks. You get six gigabytes of ram 128 gigabytes of storage, a 1080p OLED display, which I think is gorgeous. You get a 3140 William hour battery and a whole hell of a lot of phone. It even comes with a fast charger, no wireless charging, but it actually comes with a charger that'll charge, your phone quickly, apple, alright.

So anyway, let's talk about the 4a's design. It's plastic! It's not glass! Furthermore, it has like a sanded plastic on the back or brushed plastic, feel it isn't that soft touch rubbery plastic, but it feels nice. Furthermore, it doesn't feel cheap to me, like some other reviews, I've seen have said, has a fingerprint sensor in the perfect spot on the back: it's not very tactile. Sometimes you will miss it because unless you have a case, there really is no way to feel, but I would say, 98 of the time. My finger just naturally goes where the fingerprint sensor is, so it's not really a big deal.

You have a super click power button and volume rocker. They feel perfect and on the front screen, you have a hole punch for the front, front-facing camera and I think it's perfect. I like it better than a notch. It's small! It's in the top left corner, not a big deal and, last but not least, look at the top of the phone. There's a headphone jack, a headphone jack in 2020, even on budget phones, those are becoming a rarity.

The front-facing camera is an 8 megapixel sensor and the rear-facing camera is a 12.2 megapixel sensor. There's one camera back there, no telephoto lens, no wide angle shot lens. That's it all the magic is done in software with Google phones and this phone takes some pretty damn good pictures and some decent video decent. So I want to bring up the elephant in the room with the Pixel 4 XL and that's performance. I've seen a lot of other reviews on this phone saying that 3140 William hour battery it's mediocre and battery life, and- and I don't agree with that- I could beat the crap out of this thing.

Play games do whatever, and I still have a ton of battery left at the end of the day. I think the battery life on this phone is incredible, and I think that's due in part to the low res 1080p screen and due to the fact that it is a Qualcomm, snapdragon, 730 g, which also I've seen quite a few complaints about, and I'm confused now a lot of reviews. I've seen now, I'm coming from an iPhone 11 Pro max, and that is the fastest phone in the game. The a13 bionic chip in the iPhone 11 Pro max beats the even new snapdragon 865 plus from Qualcomm in benchmarks, the fastest phone out there, that's what I'm coming from with the iPhone 11 Pro max. I went to this I didn't feel like I was being hindered with performance.

I was video face chatting with someone on Facebook. While I was getting notes for videos for the next day, while I was doing a bunch of other things, had a bunch of tabs open going on websites. There was no hesitation I didn't feel like. I was on a budget or mid-range processor. Now I will agree with reviewers that maybe in two or three years that may become a problem, but I'm not seeing the same slowness, and I'm coming from a flagship phone that other reviewers are seeing.

Maybe there's something wrong with their phones. I don't know, but this thing runs great to me, and you also get other niceties that you wouldn't expect at this price point. It actually has front facing stereo speakers a lot of times. You just get a mono speaker on a phone. That's 350 bucks compared to the starting price, iPhone SE the 2020 version.

This has doubled the storage for 50, less, which is impressive and, from a stills' perspective, the camera quality on here due to a lot of the post-processing that Google does with their pixel phones, I wholeheartedly feel is superior to the SC. Now video is a different story. If you're more of a video head- and you want to spend around this price, I would go with the iPhone SE, but you're getting a lot of phones for the dollar and let's talk more about the camera because, from a stills' perspective, the 12.2 megapixel sensor on the back here, combined with Google software for the price. This is the best camera in the game. Hands down without question.

Video is a little different of a story, but we'll get to that in a second. You get google's amazing night sight mode, which I still like the iPhone 11's night mode. More. A lot of people disagree with me on that saying. iPhone 11's night mode looks a little unnatural.

I like the unnatural look. I think it does a better job with a night mode, but the night sight mode on the Google Pixel 4a is great. Taking shots in very low light scenarios. You can still get a great image and still images like you're, seeing here just come out, super clear and crisp a lot of contrast, a lot of color a lot of detail. You don't usually get this quality camera at this price point and video honestly isn't that bad now the rear sensor, the max that it could do for video is 4k.30 would be nice to have 4k 60fps like the iPhone SE, but I'm sure that's a limitation of the Qualcomm processor that google decided to use the 730g, but as you're seeing here, the video quality is solid. You get 4k 30.

The image stabilization software and iOS together is fine. It doesn't look overly aggressive when I was walking here. I was purposely jiggling the phone and not holding it super steady to see how the image stabilization handled that- and it looks great it's serviceable, 4k 30 video. I just wish it had a 4k 20 fps mode. On top of it too, you get cool things like call screening that Google phones have built into them the audio caption, where it'll literally have captions for any audio coming out of your phone.

You have the recorder software, which will turn the audio that you record into the phone into text, which is great hello, everybody. This is rich of review tech, USA, and I am testing out the audio recording software on the Google Pixel 4a. You could literally make a transcript out of your voice recordings and then email them to yourself. If I had this in college, I would have crapped my pants. There is only one catch to the Google Pixel 4a and to me, it's a big one that may turn some people off zero water resistance, none, not even splash proof now look! I understand they want to cut cost and not have an ip67 or ip68 rating, but just do what Motorola does make it that if you know a splash of water gets on the phone, you don't have to worry about it.

I feel like I'm back in 2014 with this phone again. Oh, it's in my pocket. Am I getting sweaty walking outside because it's been 90 degrees? I don't want my sweat juices getting on the phone. I got to make sure I don't have the phone near my sink. If I want to wash my hands, these are things that, with the water resistance, which I don't treat my phone like, I could go in the bath with it.

I actually know some people that actually do that. I just like having that peace of mind and with this phone you don't get that, and I know for some people that may be a dealbreaker and I don't know why Google just didn't make the damn phone splash proof, no ip60 rate 7 rating 68 rating just make it so little water gets on it. There's nothing to worry about Motorola. Does it so, at the end of the day, with the great performance from this phone, I think the phone performs great with the snapdragon 730g even Call of Duty mobile runs great on it with the incredible camera, the fact that it includes a fast charger and a decent amount of storage, 128 gigabytes for 350 us dollars, minus the fact that it has no water resistance. This is the best budget, slash mid-range phone on the market, and I was not paid to do this review.

Google did not have to review this video before I put it up. I just think it's awesome, and I may actually put my iPhone 11 Pro max to rest for a while and use this as my daily driver. That's how good it is. This is richer review. Tech, USA, signing out have a good one.

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