Google Pixel 4a - Unboxing, Setup and Review - (4K 60P) By zollotech

Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this is google's brand-new Pixel 4a. This is a budget phone that has from what most people are saying, a really great camera, and so this comes in at just 349. And will come out on August 20th. Now it's available in just one color and that's called just black. So let's go ahead and open it up and see what we've got so Google was nice enough to send this along. So I could take a look at it, and it's not a sponsored review, but they did send the phone.

So let's go ahead and open this up and see what we've got we'll do a size comparison we'll set it up, and then we'll actually see what it's like. As far as its pictures now this year we don't have the XL version, it's just the 4a, so this is a little smaller than I thought, so I'll set this aside, we'll take a look at that in a moment and let's take a look inside the box, so we'll take this out, and we've got a little of documentation here. Let me take this: apart got a sim card tool, and then we also have our safety and warranty and a get starting guide inside we have an USB to USB cable. We also have an adapter that allows us to transfer our information, and then we have a power brick. This is the typical pixel power brick we've seen before, and this supports up to 18 watt fast charging.

So let's put this aside and take a closer look at the phone, so here's the phone itself, let's peel this cover off, and it should be a really nice screen size, the bezels look pretty small, but it's got a matte plastic back to it. It looks pretty good, in fact, it's very similar to the Pixel 4 XL. As you can see, here's a size comparison, so it's not quite as big, but let's go over the outside of it, and then we'll talk about the specs. So on the back, it's all black, and then we have our fingerprint reader. We've got a single camera, we'll talk about the specs in a moment on the right side, we have a power, sleep, wake button and a volume button, and it's got a nice click feel to it, and this button is sort of a bluish green color on the bottom.

It looks like we've got two speakers and an USB jack on the left hand, side there's nothing really other than a sim card tray slot. So let's open that up now inside the sim card, tray slot is just room for one sim card: there's no expandable storage, but for the price you get 128, gigabytes of storage. So that's pretty good and then on the top. We have a microphone and a headphone jack, which you don't see too often so for 350 dollars. You get this.

If you want to wait for a 5g version that will ship this fall for 4.99. Now internally we have Qualcomm snapdragon 730 with six gigabytes of ram and then on the front. We have a 5.81 inch 2340 by 1080 443 pixels per inch, OLED display it supports HDR and uses gorilla glass 3. So it's a step back, but gorilla glass 3 is pretty hard and should resist scratches pretty well on the front we have an 8, megapixel, f 2.0, fixed focus lens with 1080p 30 video and on the back we have a 12.2, megapixel, f 1.7, with optical image, stabilization, dual pixel phase, detect autofocus camera with 4k 30 video. Now, let's go ahead and turn it on, and then we'll talk about some of them, some more specs and see what it's like.

So it's booting up here, you'll see it's a nice edge to edge display and to give you a size, comparison with, say the iPhone SE, which I think is it's going to be its main competitor. It's very similarly sized it's a little bigger. The display has a higher resolution and pixel density, but it seems about the same size. So again, next to the Pixel 4 XL you'll see the screen size. So let's go ahead and get this set up now.

Bluetooth crashed the second. I turned it on, so that's kind of interesting, but let's go ahead and hit start, and we'll get this set up and see what it's like to use, so we'll connect to a Wi-Fi network, I'm going to skip the sim card for now. Next, it says you can transfer your data, so we'll hit next, and we can plug in our old phone and what I want to do is actually transfer data from my Pixel 4 XL to this device. So I can try it out the same way. I would use it there, so let's go ahead and plug it in, so I've got my Pixel 4 XL and let's plug it into the Pixel 4a there we go.

It says, phones connected check, your other phone copy data, verify me we'll hit confirm, and it's copying the account now. It's saying getting account info says checking for data, and then we can choose what we want to copy or not copy so photos and videos. I don't need to copy those and let's go ahead and hit copy, and it will move everything over. So we'll wait for this to finish, and then we'll continue. So now that it's copying I can continue to set this up we'll hit.

Next, I have to agree to their terms. Hit except accept. Now I need to set up a pin. Once I set up a pin, I need to set up pixel imprint, so we'll go ahead and hit next and then touch the sensor on the back to set it up, and it says it's added, and we'll hit continue now. It says your assistant will be right with you, and it looks like the setup is done or copying is done, so we'll hit close on the pixel, 4 XL, and then we'll go over to the 4a and continue.

It already recognizes my voice, so I'll go ahead and hit next, and we'll say no thanks to anything else, and then it's just giving us tips and tricks. So it's going to continue doing this adds some finishing touches, and then we should be able to go to the home screen. Now it's saying I can go home I'll hit next switch apps. It's just telling me how to use this, and we'll swipe up to go home, and now it's completely copied from my Pixel 4a or 4xl rather to the 4a. So it gives you an idea of the display, let's see what wallpapers are available.

So there's no new wallpapers per se, but let's go ahead and switch to this one, or maybe we'll go to for fun. We'll pick a daily wallpaper and set that, so now I'll wait for everything to finish installing it's going to take a while for all of these apps to install once that's done, we'll take a closer look at it, but the battery in this is 3140 William hours, many people that have used it already are saying that it's better than what we had with the pixel 4xl, which is great. We don't have squeeze to activate android assistant, so we have to swipe up from a corner and go into assistant here and then also. I need to install a bunch of updates as well, so I'll wait for this to finish, and then we'll take a closer look at it. Now I have everything moved over from my Pixel 4 XL and all the apps are laid out the same way.

I added a couple others, but it's pretty much exactly the same. All of my messages and everything else, and so I've been using it for a little. I had it update and one of the great things about this is: it gets all the latest updates. So the update that actually came out yesterday at the time of recording this video is also out for this device. So if I go into my system updates here, you'll see it has the August 5th update on it, even though it's August 4th, so it seems to be that we're going to get all these updates just like you would expect with a pixel device, but the overall usability of this seems to be pretty good most of the time.

It's really fast, it does feel a little slower due to maybe that slower refresh rate than we have on the 4xl, for example. So if I just scroll through the app drawer here, you'll see it's a little smoother on the 4xl due to that 90 hertz refresh rate, but we have 60 hertz on the Pixel 4a and that's good enough for most. In fact, every iPhone has 60 hertz, so it seems to be doing okay, and then I tried out a couple different apps, we'll take a look at a couple of games in a moment. But if we take a look at the camera, the cameras are pretty interesting. We only have a forward-facing camera.

That's got a fixed focus, so you can see here it's fixed, and maybe I'll go to video, and it will record 1080p. So this is the 1080p video from the forward-facing camera of the Pixel 4a, and so I'm not sure how it sounds, but it's probably not as good as this microphone, but it may sound halfway decent now. As far as the rear facing camera, the rear camera should record in 4k, so we have selfie illumination for the forward facing let's spin it around here. Go back, and you'll see that we've got our different settings. So, let's go into our settings here, and you'll see it kind of lags from time to time, so we've got our grid and then video stabilization, which it has that's built in and of course, we've got 4k like I said so advanced, and then you can do raw plus JPEG control, we'll go back here, go back, and you can do 16 by nine crop.

Now, let's go to video mode and take a look at those settings. Quick you'll see: we've got 4k at 30p, like I said, and again framing, and things like that. So you've got all of those different settings as well as frequent faces, so it will recognize as well. Now, let's take a look at some photos and videos from this camera and see how they look compared to say the Pixel 4 XL, as well as maybe the iPhone SE for a quick comparison now other than the cameras. The display on this phone is actually HDR like I said earlier.

So if we go to one of my videos, you'll see that we have 1080p HDR, we don't have 1440 or 4k, but we do have HDR. So if I rotate this hit play, the speakers are actually decent too. So here take a listen to these and the speakers actually surprised me a bit because I wasn't expecting stereo speakers out of the top, but we have stereo speakers from the top earpiece here and the bottom as well. It sounds pretty decent, and it's better than I expected from a budget phone of this price. Now as far as gaming, I'm sure quite a few people will want to try that out.

So let's go into asphalt, 9 as well as we'll try Call of Duty in a moment, but you'll see we'll resume here, and you can see the frame rate, so I played around with this a little. They do sometimes slow down a little. You'll see as I drift. I had to start this game over a little, but as I drift around this corner or go through this building, you'll see all the action going on, and it seems to be okay, but occasionally it has a little of a hiccup, as you can see. Now, if we go back home and try out a game like Call of Duty, we'll wait for it to load now, I'm in Call of Duty mobile- and I just wanted to show you the frame rates.

It seems to be very playable. I don't really see any issues here, although occasionally it seems to have a slight slowdown, but the screen is vibrant, and you saw the little hiccup there. The screen is vibrant and it's very playable. Now, while playing that for just a moment, I did start to feel the back of the device get a little warm that's to be expected, but it does seem like it's going to heat up quite a bit as you play, so maybe it'll slow down as you have extended gameplay, but it seems to be okay overall. Now the only thing that this phone doesn't seem to have that some people may care about is there's no dual cameras on the back like the Pixel 4 XL there's also no wireless charging, so you will have to use the USB on the bottom for most people, that won't be a problem, but it doesn't have those features.

I wish they would have included that coil, since those are fairly inexpensive from what I understand, but other than that it doesn't have that, and it has 802.11 ABG and ac. There is no Wi-Fi six, so it's not really a bad price for all the other features that you're getting a decent display and everything else, and then, of course, that battery that I mentioned earlier 3140 William hours. I expect it to get at least through a day from what I'm seeing online. Of course, it will take further testing to know that for sure, but you'll see it should last until 1 15 pm that would be tomorrow and so battery usage, of course, has only been used for a little since I've been setting this up and using it for the games. During this video, but it seems like it should get through a day without a problem for 349 dollars.

I would definitely check it out now. You'll also get three years of software updates with pixel devices, and you've got a year warranty. So I would definitely check one out if you wanted a budget phone that actually seems to perform pretty well will run all of your basic social media apps and things like that fairly smoothly and has a pretty decent camera for the money. I don't know that you can distinguish this camera from the Pixel 4 XL. Based on the photos, I showed you, you don't have that squeeze for Google Assistant, but other than that.

It's a pretty good deal, but let me know your thoughts about it in the comments below and if you'd like, to see any further videos, maybe a comparison with the 2020 iPhone SE. I'd love to hear from you in the comments below if you haven't subscribed already, though, please subscribe, and if you enjoyed the video please give it a like, as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll, see you next time you.

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