Google Pixel 4a vs iPhone XR By Nick Ackerman

So, the Google Pixel 4a burst onto the scene really offering consumers a really great option of a phone with great software support for some time, but the iPhone 10r kind of already perfected this formula a couple of years ago. Yes, it was more, but now you can get it at a discounted price point. The question I want answered here is: is the Google Pixel 4a the better option over the iPhone 10r? So what is up guys nick here helping you to master your technology, google, pixel, 4a or iPhone 10r? Now the price point is still cheaper for the 4a right at around 349 bucks and over here for the 10r you're. Looking at your know, around 400 or so on. The third-party market. Again apple, still sells this phone for a little higher price point, but I mean you still could kind of choose between these.

So I think it's kind of interesting here now we're going to begin by talking about the body of both of these phones now beginning with the Google Pixel 4a 143 grams we've talked about it before makes this thing feel like a featherweight polar back. You know a lot of people will say: well, it doesn't really matter how it feels, because you know you're going to put a case on it anyway and that's true to some extent. But if you want a more premium, feel you have the glass body on the 10r, many beautiful colors, and you also have aluminum edges for this phone now. Of course, you get that classic silent switch, but one thing that the Google Pixel 4a has that the iPhone 10r doesn't have is a headphone jack. So you do have that in the more universal USB 3.1 now over here for the iPhone 10r, you are looking at the lightning port on board, which can definitely do some fast charging, although that's not included in the box, is included for the Pixel 4a now talking about their overall thinness, it's funny, because these are pretty much a similar thickness. The Google Pixel 4a clacks in at around 8.2 millimeters and over here for the iPhone 10r you're, looking at around 8.3, so general thickness feels about the same, but I think overall that the iPhone 10r just feels like a much larger phone than the Google Pixel 4a, which is a much more comfortable feel in the hand. So when it comes to the body, I would give the Pixel 4a the more comfortable feel on the day-to-day now talking about design.

That's where I like to go to the front of these phones, because you can kind of see their differences in design. Now you do have a big notch here for the iPhone 10r. Although it does have a very usable face ID system in there and over here for the Google Pixel 4a, you do have a punch, hole camera which can you know, do some good photos, but no real face unlock abilities on here. You're going to be using this fingerprint sensor on the back now. One thing about their design, though, is that the Google Pixel 4a does give you a square camera bump.

I mean that's more similar to the iPhone 11 Pro max and over here for the iPhone 10r just that single circle. Camera looks more like that new SE, so you know, I think that the Pixel 4a's camera bump kind of looks a little more in line with 2020, but at the same time some people might like that single camera looks very clean as well. You can see the Google logo right there and the iPhone logo right there. Both these are very clean phones. Let me know which one you prefer down below again.

If you want the more premium body, that's going to be the 10r, but if you want the more comfortable body that'll, be the Google Pixel 4a. Now it's easy to talk about the differences in display, because not only do you get a smaller display on the Google Pixel 4a, but you do get a better display. This is OLED quality here um, it's not a better size. If you want more size, though, because again smaller display over here, you do get 6.1 inches of liquid retina marketing aka an lcd with 326 PPI. So this display right here when you're reading the news or whatever is definitely not as sharp as the Google Pixel 4a's display.

So if we go over here on the Google Pixel 4a you're going to get an absolute, crushing, 443 PPI, which what I mean by crushing, is it's crushing the iPhone 10r in that overall density. You will only notice this. If you get really close to the display or your pixel peeper, you will definitely notice it. The iPhone 10r, just not quite as sharp now also with both their displays on the Pixel 4a you have to pinch in and the iPhone 10r you also have to pinch in. There is again a more noticeable cutout in that content for the 10r when watching video- and I think the video just looks better because it's more saturated on OLED for the pixel, but you can see a lot less distraction here for your Google Pixel.

So definitely you know you got to consider. Do you want the bigger display a little less quality here, or do you want more quality, a little less distraction with the cutout on the Google Pixel 4a? When it comes to media consumption overall, both of these displays do have good usable brightness. I could see both of them pretty easily in sunlight. I should mention that the 10r does give you true tone. You can't do that for the Pixel 4a, but within the Pixel 4a.

If I go to display settings advanced, I do have things like adaptive brightness the night light the dark theme you have some customizability here. You can also change the colors to different modes like adaptive, natural saturated again, if you dig around in accessibility, you'll find even more display options for the iPhone 10r as well. So there's a lot going on with both these displays. Overall, I would probably pick the Pixel 4a, though, for just the sheer OLED and moving on to software, so the iPhone did get the latest 13.7 just yesterday, so we go over to general software update. You can see we're on the 13.7. It might have been a couple of days ago.

Actually, but you know you're going to get software support even for a couple more years here for the 10 hour. Maybe three more years, maybe four we'll see a12 CPU in here- gives this longevity, like you wouldn't believe, so the 10 are definitely going to give you that nice clean software. Of course, it's going to get iOS 14 in a couple of weeks here, more than likely so 10 are super up-to-date, still nowhere near behind at all when it comes to its overall software. Now the Google Pixel 4a is a similar story, and this is what really makes this phone exceptional. Is that the have the ability to just go ahead and get the latest software whenever for this phone versus other android phones? It's just not going to happen quite as quickly now there's some out there that are now offering three years of support, but the Pixel 4a really just gonna, get those quick updates, because it's google's phone so really do like this about the Google Pixel 4a gonna, get lots of system updates, going to be one of the first in lines for android 11 as well.

When it comes to the general software overall, you know these are actually quite close. If you don't start customizing the pixel and you just kind of leave it the way it is, you know they're, both very just simple software. You have an app drawer here, of course, you're going to have the app library when iOS 14 comes to the 10r. Officially so they're going to be even closer, then on the whole, you know it's just really down to do. You want the apple experience or do you want the Google experience, because really, these are just both the duopoly of the smartphone game, and you really have no issue with either you're going to have the best apps in the world on either platform.

Now, if you do care a lot more about privacy and security, google seems to your know, track a little more things, especially if you don't go and mess around with the settings, and you know tweak it yourself. You'll probably feel like you're, just getting personalized ads a lot on this phone. So you might like this if you care a little more about privacy in the iPhone 10r now one area, at least technically speaking, that the Google Pixel 4a is no match for iPhone.10R has got to be performance now in the actual real world, you're not going to notice much of anything in just day-to-day usage between both of these phones, because the Pixel 4a is equipped with a fast enough processor for daily usage, but the iPhone 10r. When we talk about benchmarks, when we talk about overall performance, it's going to be faster, especially when you start pushing it hard, video, editing, video, rendering you know playing extensive games on this phone. The 10r has the more powerful CPU, but where the 10r chokes up is three gigabytes of ram, pretty annoying.

Considering when that phone came out, it was 800 bucks this one right here, six gigs of ram. Why do I say? That's annoying, you might say well, iOS is so optimized, because even with you know that a12, if you have multiple apps open, and then you go back to another app, what it will do is it will reload that application and that's kind of annoying, especially if you're trying to copy and paste something like you got a security code. You got to go copy and paste it. Then it reloads it's just kind of annoying, whereas with the six gigs of ram on the Pixel 4a, even though it's not quite as fast you're, not going to find this phone kind of just reopening applications on this phone, it just holds them a little better in the background. So there are some pros of the performance here with the 730g.

But if you want the boss, chipset the 10r, definitely squashes on the Google Pixel 4a and battery life, guys so the iPhone 10r. You know it has a pretty sizable battery, it's around 2, 900, Williams or so, not quite as large as the Google Pixel 4a's battery life, which is 3140. This one to be exact, is 2942. However, even with the larger battery, the 10r is a longer lasting phone. It just gets a couple of hours more.

I think, on the day-to-day. In terms of my usage now the Google Pixel 4a is an easy day phone for, I think the target customer for this device, but I think, if you guys do want to really have a little better longevity a bit better standby time, although the Pixel 4a is pretty darn good in standby. I think that the iPhone 10r is the pick for battery life. But again the Pixel 4a does include a fast charger in the box, and neither of these are really going to give you much of an issue unless you're a super heavy user. So does the 10r went out in biometrics and the answer to that question is: it depends on if you prefer face ID or if you prefer, the fingerprint, unlocking abilities of the Pixel 4a.

Now personally, right now with the masks, the Pixel 4a is more convenient but uh. Some people, like the convenience of unlocking applications, banking applications, the security of using their face because no one's really going to match their face, and you're not going to fool it with a picture either so face ID. I think if you want the more futuristic feel you'll like this a little more but again the convenience of the fingerprint sensor on the back of the Pixel 4a, pretty much in the perfect location for your finger where it rests, is also pretty awesome, and it also works with third-party applications. So biometrics is really down the preference here, okay guys. So when it comes to the audio quality, you have a speaker down here and up here honestly, the Pixel 4a sounds pretty good.

It doesn't sound, really tinny at all. Now. The iPhone 10r is also a pretty good audio of weeks now and performance ready. It actually sounds a little louder than the Google Pixel 4a. Give you guys my full review on this device.

You know it really. If you want the better speakers, I think the iPhone 10r has those but again headphone jack here, and you know it's not that much worse for the Pixel 4a. Now when it comes to the cameras. I like this comparison, because it's pretty simple, we have a simple camera on the back of the pixel. You can zoom in digitally, and you have no wide angle here for video.

You can do up to 4k at 30 for the Google Pixel 4a. I would still like to see google eventually start putting 4k 60 on their phones. That would be pretty. Nice haven't done it. Yet both have portrait modes, and you have night sight mode here now for the iPhone 10r.

You do have a single camera. Once again you can zoom in, and you also have good video quality. You can do up to 4k at 60 on this phone portrait mode on front and back square modes panoramic modes. These are very comparable even on the front facing cameras here for both of them. They both are pretty similar.

You have a 7 megapixel for this iPhone 10r and then over here for this Google Pixel 4a, you do have an 8 megapixel. Both can do 1080 on the front, but the 10r can do 1080 60 on the front. So again, I think if you want better photo quality, the Pixel 4a is where it's at it does this AI stuff? That just really makes it. You know really amazing. The 10r does have smart HDR as well.

So if we go over here into the camera settings for the iPhone 10r, you can see down here. Smart HDR also does some AI stuff to make the camera quality look even better, but I would say pick the 10r. If you care more about taking videos, if you care more about taking photos, pick the Google Pixel 4a you're going to be happier here: okay, guys and connectivity, I'm talking phone call, quality, LTE performance, 5g, there's no 5g on either of these. The Pixel 4a actually has better connectivity than the 10r. The 10 are, you know just not the best in the world here when it comes to your know, mobile performance call quality.

Even wasn't call quality was fine, but it sometimes I just didn't- have as much signal on this phone. So in this area you want the Pixel 4a, it's the better phone here overall, so at the end of the day, you're getting 128 gig storage to start here for the pixel 4, it's actually the only storage capacity. You have more colors here for the 10 hour, so that's a better option but less storage to start at 64 gigs and if you're looking for this on the most banging deal, it's probably going to be that 64 gig version at the end of the day answering my question from the beginning, for you guys does the Google Pixel 4a do enough to take down the 10r and I would say in many areas? Yes, if you can live with some downsides of the Google Pixel 4a like no 4k 60, you know having a little of a cheaper body here and a slower chipset than the 10r. You might really love this device, but if you want an iPhone on the low, I think this actually does pretty well against the 4a. Even though this phone came out a couple of years ago now so 10 are still doing very well.

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