Pixel 3A and 3A XL: Unboxing and review By CNET

Google is pivoting to a whole new price bracket. It's new phones, the Pixel 3a, which you see here and the Pixel 3a Excel may have last year's names, but they're new, more affordable models of the company's current flagships, the pixel 3 and 3 excel at 399 and 479 dollars, respectively. The Pixel 3a and three AXL are cheaper because Google's stripped down many of the original pixel threes key features. The Pixel 3a doesn't have wireless charging, it's not water resistant, it doesn't have that 2nd wide-angle front facing camera, and it doesn't come bundled with Pixel Buds, ear buds. It also has a less powerful processor. So what does it have? Well, it has the same camera as the pixel 3, which is saying a lot, but we'll dig into that later.

It also has a headphone, jack and Google introduced a new color, a shade. It calls purplish. Lastly, you can get it at more carriers. Verizon T-Mobile, Sprint and US Cellular will sell the phone. The phone also works on 18 C, but you can get it directly from the carrier, because the pixel three and three AXL have the same camera photo quality.

Is still excellent, one new feature is time-lapse video on the Pixel 3a I, like that you can set your frames to record at certain time intervals, and you'll see exactly how long your video will be in real time. The phone still has top shot, which helps you choose the best image out of a series and, unlike other phones at its price range, the Pixel 3a still has its own dedicated low light mode called night sight. It's incredibly impressive and works very well to brighten up dim settings. Oh, and a recently rolled out feature in photo booth, which Auto recognizes kisses or duck faces, come on a Pixel 3a to its important, to note that Google changed its Google photos, storage policy with the Pixel 3a, unlike pixel 2 and pixel 3 owners who can save pictures to the cloud at original resolution. Pixel 3a users have unlimited storage only at high quality.

This should be enough to satisfy casual users, but if you take image quality seriously, or you want to back up all your 4k videos, the pixel, through a only has 64 gigs of onboard memory, with no option to expand the foam, runs Android Pi, and we'll get an update to Android cute later this summer. One new thing on the phone is a nifty an are walking navigation tool in Google Maps. This will roll out to other phones later, but I was able to test an early version of the feature. The AR mode is particularly useful when I first start navigating and have to orient myself if I hold up the phone for too long. The app also reminds me to put the pixel down the pixel.3A does have a less powerful, Snapdragon 670 processor, but because Google reoptimize, the software to work with the chipset I, didn't feel any slowdown in speed or performance. Don't get me wrong.

The benchmark scores are still lower than the original pixel 3, but during my brief time, with the phone, day-to-day usage appears about the same and photos that required extra processing. Time like HDR+, enhanced or nitrite, felt like it took about the same amount of time as for the battery Google, actually bumped up the capacity in the new pixels. Preliminary testing so far showed that the phones had a slightly longer battery life than the premium counterparts, with continuous video playback on airplane mode. The pixel 3 a lasted over 16 and a half hours, while the pixel 3 AXL clocked in a bit over 17 hours, so the Pixel 3a and the 3a Excel doesn't have as much high-end software as the original pixel 3s Google's still managed to make an affordable and excellent phone compared to the budget options of its competitors like the iPhone 10 R and the Galaxy S 10 II, the Pixel 3a doesn't have wireless charging or water resistance. But if you want the latest software from Google and you want to take fantastic photos all at a few hundred dollars less than the other phones, the Pixel 3a is your top choice.

Source : CNET