Google Pixel 4a vs Galaxy S10e By Nick Ackerman

So, the Google Pixel 4a has been a hit at just 349 many people loving this offering, but the Galaxy S10e just a year and a half old or so was a flagship phone and is now a similar price, and these phones feel extremely similar. But let's see which one is going to be the better option for you in this video. Let's go so what is up guys nick here, helping you to master your technology, we'll begin with the Pixel 4a's body. We do have a plastic back here. We do have a square camera design, and we do have a mint color green, like a light, color green on the side here, volume marker right here at the bottom USB we do have a microphone hole and a speaker. There is a speaker integrated up here in the earpiece punch, hole camera there and a headphone jack at the top curvy design plastic feel is the name of the game here, but it still feels very well put together now on the Galaxy S10e side of things.

We do have ourselves a very nice aluminum rail around the edges, giving you a more premium feel than the Pixel 4a. Now on the right you can see. The fingerprint sensor is integrated within the body, which is very clean kind of unique. Not a lot of phones. Do that.

So I do like that, but the one is easy to feel out in the Pixel 4a as well. You can see stacking these side by side. They have almost identical dimensions. The Google Pixel 4a is actually just around 8.2 millimeters thick and the s10 is slightly thinner at 7.9, but the s10, because of its glass body, does way more at 150 grams you'll feel it more versus the Pixel 4a's light and stealthy 143 grams, so definitely nice there. I should note that the Google Pixel 4a does have gorilla glass, 3 versus gorilla glass 5 on the Galaxy S10e, not that it means much to you, but it should be a little better at scratch.

Resistance and you know just kind of just overall durability for the Galaxy S10e. Also, the SNE does have ip68 dust and water resistant rating. So more flagship grade specs in that device, although I have to say in terms of their designs, they feel very similar picking these up. They have a similar shape, a similar weight, a similar size if you're looking for a compact phone with basically an all screen, you're gonna love either one of these devices. So when it comes to display I've been checking both of these out, and they're.

Pretty close, however, there's one that's better, we'll talk about which one that is now this text is very sharp, so you have right around 443 PPI, because what the Google Pixel 4a is doing is putting a lot of pixels in a small body 2340 by 1080. , now put 1080 on a larger phone, like the Galaxy Note, 20 ultra, for example, and that PPI does come down when in 1080 you have to put in the who to get that high PPI. Now over here, you have a HDR display now for the Galaxy S10e. This is also a very nice resolution. It's pretty similar to the Google Pixel 4a at 2280 by 1080, but it's slightly fewer pixels, so it does have slightly less PPI um.

It's not going to be that noticeable whatsoever. This is HDR 10 plus display they both have support for always on, but you'll notice. One thing about both of these, the Galaxy S10 does have a bigger punch hole. It's just slightly bigger versus the Google Pixel 4a. Now the Google Pixel 4a the thing with it is it doesn't get as bright.

It doesn't have as much usable brightness. I feel like as the Galaxy S10e, so the s10 just looks a little brighter than the Google Pixel 4a. However, I find the Pixel 4a's white balance to be a little nicer. However, you both have on either one of these. You can get perfect display mode so over here you can do natural or vivid for the Google Pixel 4a.

If we go into the settings for the display panel, we can go here to display and go to advanced, and you can see colors. We do have boosted natural, and you know adaptive modes, so you can tweak the displays to your liking on both of these. So the Google Pixel 4a is slightly sharper than the Galaxy S10, but the Galaxy S10e is slightly brighter. Watching video is going to be a very similar experience on either one of these phones. You just have the punch hole on the left for the Pixel 4a and on the right for the Galaxy S10e.

Okay, so I'm not going to spend too much time here, because when it comes to the software differences, you know with the Google experience you're getting that pixel experience, uh very clean and minimal, and we'll also be able to get software updates very frequently, probably even faster than you'll, see it on the Samsung phone. However, the galaxy s70 is one of those phones that Samsung is promising to support for a long time coming, and you get a ton more features than the Pixel 4a when it comes to just like the extra stuff. Samsung throws on top like all this stuff up here in the quick panels. If you hold down right here, you have a whole more Samsung widget. You have more Samsung themes, I mean it's just so much more features thrown on top of android.

This is a more minimal experience over here, just giving you the essentials, you need it's really like a minimalist phone right here in the Google Pixel 4a, if you like, just minimal software on your device, so that really comes down to your preference. Both are very smooth in their operation, though, and talking about performance. The big separator here is that for a similar price, the Galaxy S10e is going to give you a snapdragon 855 chipsets. Now, depending on, if you're in a different region, you might get an EXE in those chip which some people do not like versus this one right here, but you do get six gigs of ram on both phones again with the GPU. The Galaxy S10e is a better gamer as well with an arena 640 GPU versus a 16 18 GPU for the Google Pixel 4a, so yeah, while they do both have UFS 2.1 storage. The performance on the Galaxy S10e is just going to be better across the board because it has that flagship CPU.

That could be the separator for you right there. But if you don't like the Samsung software, that could also not be the separator for you now. The Google Pixel 4a only comes in an option of 128 gig storage and only in one color, whereas with the Galaxy S10e, you can expand the memory as there is expandable memory up here in the sim card tray. Also, it comes with 128 gigabytes standard. If you want to go up from there, you can get this with 256 gigs, so the storage expandability is much larger for the Galaxy S10e over here.

So that's another win on this phone, but you have to, remember that Google gives you some nice cloud storage benefits uh with using google services, although you can still do that with Samsung services as well, so it's kind of a washer depending on which service you prefer now. One thing I want to talk about a little is the fingerprint scanners. They both have this feature where you can kind of just swipe down on the back and just bring down your notifications. Tray. That's nice over here for the s10e it's in a little better location.

In my opinion, it's right there, where your thumb would rest so right there, but on the Pixel 4a, it's right where your index finger would rest so pretty nice on both. You can just do that. Little neat feature right there, all right. So, let's get to an area where a lot of people seem to care a lot about with their phone, and that is the cameras. Now the Google Pixel 4a gives an excellent single shooter.

This is a pretty simple. You know conclusion here: you have a simple shooter with portrait modes and night sight modes and very good 4k 30 video with a pretty solid front-facing camera. However, with the Galaxy S10e, it automatically wins, in my opinion, due to having an ultra-wide angle camera now. Why is that important? Because the ultra-wide angle camera gives you so much more space with your shot? So if you need to back out- or you can't step back and get that photo, you can get it. However, I think some people are going to prefer the Google Pixel 4a's photos to the s10es, but the s7e takes a little brighter photos, and they turn out very nice.

Also, it's getting a lot of those features from the newer Samsung phones. You do have a pro mode right here. You have a night mode on this phone, any pro video on this phone as well. So I think it's a little more feature packed and then also on the front. This does give you a 10 megapixel camera on the front versus the Google Pixel.4A is eight megapixels, so you can definitely get a perfect photo on the front. In addition, I got to say that the video resolution that you could shoot on the front is also higher for the Google or for the Galaxy S10e.

So if we go to video size here, you can do up to 4k 60 on the front. You can't do that for the Google Pixel 4a. In addition, on the rear video, you can do up to 4k 60, so this has got more pro level. Video features than the Google Pixel 4a, and for that reason, if you want more features in your camera, and you want that ultra-wide, the Galaxy S10e is clearly the better value here if you're going to find these at a similar price point. However, if you don't care about camera like that, and you just want a really fast, simple point-and-shoot, shooter you're going to love the Pixel 4a.

I think it does a better job at just pulling out your phone taking the photo and getting the best result. I think it's funny how these are so similar, but they're kind of opposites like they have the buttons on the right for the pixel buttons on the left for the Galaxy S10e. They have the camera on the left for the pixel camera on the right for the s10. Let's go ahead and play an audio sample, see how this does sound, but the real reason why I won't be able to switch to this phone is because the video quality is excellent on here as well, and if we go to more, you can see, you have live, focus video. You have pro video, but not only do you, so you've seen right there that the audio quality from the bottom speakers got much better on the Pixel 4a.

It should be pretty similar on the Galaxy S10, giving you more of a loudspeaker on the top or on the bottom versus the top uh aperture on this phone, very good both on this one, and you do have the ability to change between 108 megapixels 16x9. So you can hear that just deeper, more bass, just a better speaker on the bottom of both of these phones, but they both have stereo speakers. So for me, the audio quality is pretty much equal. I wouldn't pick either over the other, just based on the stereo speakers. Now, when it comes to the battery google managed to cram in a 3140 William hour battery in this body, that's actually pretty good size for the size of this phone.

If you go any bigger you're going to get a little more weight on the phone, Samsung managed a 30 100 in here now. What's interesting to note is that the charging is faster on the Pixel 4a at 18 watts in the box, 15 watts for the Galaxy S10e in the box. Again, you could get bigger chargers if you want to go third party, but just wanted to note that out also the Galaxy S10e is capable of reverse wireless charging and wireless charging uh in general, whereas the Pixel 4a is not another flagship feature over the Pixel 4a. Now I do want to mention one thing about the battery life, though the Pixel 4a is a better standby phone. If you leave it in your pocket, you leave it sitting.

It doesn't really drain much the s10 drains a little more when in standby, but with an actual usage, I found the s10 to be a little better than the Pixel 4a in actual usage. So that's something to note they're pretty close to the same size battery and I would say as a whole. Both these will get you through the day, medium to light use a heavier use. You should still make it, but it's going to be really tight, you're going to be almost dead by the end of the day. If not, you might even kill the battery and have to charge seven eight o'clock at night.

So these are not your road warriors. They will require some charge throughout the day. If you're going hard on these phones and the last thing we're going to wrap up here is the phone call quality. Now, in the past, I've had issues with pixel phones and phone call quality, but these days this one's doing excellent, as does the Galaxy S10. Both of these have connectivity of 4g LTE no 5g on either.

So you have to live with that on these devices. However, what I will state is that one of these phones, the Galaxy S10e, actually has the Wi-Fi six versus ac on the Pixel 4a. So definitely a little faster Wi-Fi over here both have Bluetooth 5.0, so they both connect very fast to Bluetooth. Overall, you do have pretty great connectivity on both these, however you're, not on the bleeding edge of 5g, okay, so which one is the better pick. We basically broke them down in detail, and I have to say I think in terms from a pure spec standpoint.

Clearly the s10e is the better pick. It has the more superior specs, better cameras. It does have a little better battery life in usage. For me also, I do find that the Galaxy S10e just offers a more premium feel with the aluminum rails. On the whole, if you want more spec, you also get headphone jack.

I didn't mention that on this 10 you get headphone jack on both. I think it's in a better location, as well as the wire doesn't kind of hang over your screen um the s10. If you care more about spec flagship design, you'll like this more but if you hate Samsung software, but you love the size of the s10e, and you just want a minimal phone with great software support. You don't care about all the extra features. The Pixel 4a is a far better choice than the s10e for you, as it's pretty much a similar phone with a little of a cheaper body and a little slightly worse, specs, not really that big of a deal.

Let me know which one you would pick between: the Google Pixel 4a and the Samsung Galaxy s10e down below in the comments section. If you found this video helpful entertaining and forming click. The like button for me subscribe. If you haven't already nick you're up, and you're to master your technology be sure to be well and peace.

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