Pixel 3A Unboxing By TWiT Tech Podcast Network

This is tweeted. Let's start by talking about this, because the Pixel 3a was the big announcement at Google, I/o, and I authorized Carsten to run out to the Verizon store, he's been still using, which, like a ancient phone, so we thought we'd get him. A new phone I've still got the OG pixel the oh, oh, oh, that's a long time ago that is yeah, so you deserve a new one. Jeff and I were both puzzled. By can you get a close-up at the back of this box because we're both puzzled by the graphic on the back of the box? There's the phone there's a chair! There's a manila envelope, there's a piece of concrete, it's concrete, and why would you put that in the box to show how tough it is? But it's not plastic yeah, it's better than glass! True! So, let's open it up! Do you mind not Kirsten if I open your new phone at the same time, boxes double unboxing, so a nice little plastic strip here that we were able to easily peel off? Oh, there's two of them that that's a lot better than trying to slit it with your five and how long it says we don't unbox if it's quite a while this, it's kind of boring. Now it's its a new thing on YouTube for kids: let's make a twenty million, so this really feels pretty nice actually does.

This do I mean plastics, a fine material, it's not a well. They gave us cases -. Oh, that's good ?, where they made out of concrete. So the sacrifice you're making here there are a few. It doesn't have the depth sensing camera on the front, just the standard, eight megapixel front facing camera.

The back does, though, have the same 12.2 megapixel sensor. What's emphasized that the software beans it's this is as good as the pixel well, but I'm wondering about that, because it doesn't have the imaging DSP that the pixel, the Big Brother, so it doesn't have the hardware support. But of course, that just means probably does the same things. A little slower, dieter bone in his verge review, said that camera was exactly or almost exactly it's, not it, and that's really what people are buying these pixels for the same fingerprint reader on the back. This is a six-inch screen.

This is the pixel three AXL. They also have a smaller. So oh, really sizable bezel yeah, but you know what you get with that bezel two things: no, not yay so on it to be honest, I think where's, the headphone jack, oh you're, on top it's on the top remember where they used to be there used to be there. They are again it does make sense to me not coming out of the bottom of coming out of the top I'm. Really actually pleased I wonder: do you think Kevin? This is kind of a retreat for Google saying.

Well, maybe that notch thing in the head, flack of the Jack, was a mistake. You follow Apple into your at your peril. Kevin you're hated, oh yeah, I! Think they don't think it's a retreat. I think it's an easy way for them to cut cost in terms of design and special parts. I mean this starts at 399.

Furthermore, I think you guys have the XL's, that's 479 I, don't think it's a retreat at all I think they're trying to get their stock Android devices in people's hands because they just aren't you know selling. They only had one carrier for the last couple of years that were selling in stores now they've got four or five carriers and I don't think it's a retreat, I think it's a smart expansion strategy, yeah I think Evan you're right, you go back, I remember when they introduced Android low many years ago. The whole strategy was get him in as many hands as possible. Yeah! That's why we go open-source. We get them everywhere.

It is a little weird I remember. We were all a little upset that the Nexus phone program, which was a less expensive, pure Google experience, got replaced by the pixel phones, which is still a peer but Google experience, but a feature. Phone price and I thought yeah I thought that maybe was kind of contrary to the whole spirit of the Nexus, maybe they're going back to that. Maybe they will continue to have a low-cost David struck me most about the keynote yesterday and, and the day was shrinking. The machine learning model from a hundred gigs down to half a gig and put making that lot was impressive, it's extremely impressive, and by making that local what's possible in this device is awe-inspiring well and- and that was in general if I were going to pick one thing about the keynote yesterday, it seemed to me that the main point Google was making is well.

Yes, we collect a lot of information about you, there's a benefit to that. Ben Thompson talks a little about it in this sister daiquiri column. Today, Google fights back, there's a benefit for you, and then I loved it that they also said, but we're going to do more and more on your vice. We're going to give you incognito mode, not just in the browser but in maps, I, think it's an acknowledgement that privacy is an important feature and I think that for Google to say we think we can do a great job for you by knowing your information, but we also want to give you the chance to protect yourself. It's not so different from the way Google has always been with it, and they pointed out a show the day, the Liberation Front and the Google takeout, and all that stuff.

It's kind of it's that obligatory, mom and apple pie thing you have to do in every keynote now: yeah privacy, you've got a salute to privacy and ethics Ben says. To put it more succinctly, which I effectively said. Yes, we collect a lot of data, but that data makes amazing things possible.

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