Google Pixel 4a Unboxing and First Impressions! It's Finally Here! By TechOdyssey

Hey everybody welcome back to tech odyssey, so I'm here with a really cool surprise today, and it is the Google Pixel 4a. Yes, I got my hands on one. They added me to team pixel, and now I'm here to share this wonderful pixel, goodness with you in this unboxing and first impressions, video lots of cool things going on here, 5.8-inch screen, they bumped up the battery gave a little more juice there. It's got a snapdragon 730 processors, and it's six gigabytes of ram and still has the best in class single camera setup on it. So lots of cool things in here, and it's 350 bucks, which I think is one heck of a deal, especially since it has 120 gigabytes of storage. But before I tell you everything about the phone, and completely you know wastes the entire purpose of watching video.

I do want to say if this is your first time stopping by the channel. I appreciate you being here if you enjoy the video please hit the like and the subscribe button and the little notification bell. If you want updates, when new videos come out now, let's take the sucker out of the box all right here we are with the Pixel 4a, the just black model, that's the only color. It comes in, unfortunately, no other fancy colors, but that's totally cool, because it's only 350 bucks. It's got a 5.8 inch, OLED screen on it, 128 gigabytes of storage and these little sticker pull tabs on the sides of the box. So you don't need to worry about using a knife or scissors or anything like that real easy to pull apart, and then you just take the box off, and you get to the phone now.

It does have a plastic finish to it. It's not really frosted, but it doesn't feel like glass for certain, and you can see the fingerprint sensor on the back. There looks like the selfie camera is in the top left corner, I'm actually, okay with that, I really don't mind: peephole cameras or cutouts or punch outs or whatever in the world. The industry wants to call them this week. I don't like the teardrop one, so I'm, okay with this we've got that mint green power button over on the side with the headphone jack.

On top. So that's a nice thing. People will be happy about that USB on the bottom, along with the downward firing speaker, so you're good to go there. The phone itself is actually really, really light. It feels balanced which I'm happy about.

It doesn't feel cheap by any means, but it definitely doesn't feel like Uber premium, like it's made out of glass or anything crazy like that, go ahead and press the power button and fire it up here, we'll set it off to the side. While we finish going through the box, so here we are with the ever popular documentation which nobody cares about. But on the back side of that, you can see the sim removal tool, which is important, so you can put your sim card in. We have an USB to USB cable, which is fine and dandy. We've even got in there the quick switch adapter, which is totally useless with this cable, because you have to have an USA to USB uh.

To do it, uh yeah, so anyway, we got the adapter in here as well. So you got the power brick straight out of the box. It is 5 volt, 3, amp, so you're perfectly taken care of when it comes to quick charge, which you shouldn't need to worry about too much, because it does have a 30 140 William battery, which is perfectly good for the snapdragon 730. It's not the most powerful high performance processor in the world. So it's not using too much of the battery and then there's the uh there's the quick switch adapter that I was talking about as well go ahead and set up the fingerprint sensor on here.

It is very, very responsive. It's very accurate as well. You just tap your finger on the back when you get it set up, and you're good to go so no facial recognition, but at least they have this on here- and I like that, it's on the back here we are with the Pixel 4a we've got out of the box. I've had a little of time to use it and I have to say its kind of refreshing and every time I get my hands on a pixel device. It is refreshing because it's basically as bare bones as you get, but it has all of Google's implementations like the call screening, which I totally love, I'm actually glad they got rid of one thing, though it doesn't have the little squeeze feature on the sides anymore to activate the Google Assistant.

I never liked that and quite honestly, I ended up activating it too many times just holding on to the phone. So I don't I'm not losing any sleep over that, but at 350 bucks a lot of great things going on here. Of course, it's running android 10. It's going to get android, 11 android 12, all that stuff when it comes out on it because they support their phones for basically forever. It comes in only just this black color, which I guess maybe they did to keep the cost down.

I'm totally fine with that you're going to put a case on it anyway and then their little cloth cases they have they're. Actually, really nice, I have one on my Pixel 3a 3a XL, totally love it, and they hold up pretty well. We've got the headphone jack on the top. We've got the USB on the bottom, it's quick charge, so you can get recharged pretty quick. It's got a 3140 William battery.

I know there are some people that are complaining about the battery size, but the Pixel 4a had a 2800 and change William battery, and they had a 90 hertz refresh rate on it. So I'm fairly certain that, with the snapdragon 730 in here with the 1080p resolution and no extra improvement on the refresh rate, you'll probably be pretty good with that six gigabytes of ram, which I think is totally fine, 12.2 megapixel camera on the back. I'm going to take some pictures. Of course, I'm going to make lots of content with this phone I'll. Do my 72-hour impressions, video, I'm going to do a camera review all those good things, but today is just the unboxing and first impressions.

It is made basically out of plastic body, gorilla glass, 3 screens on it. It seems pretty durable though I don't have any real issues with it. I do like that. They move the camera up to the top left for the 8 megapixel selfie camera. I did take a selfie um.

I don't really do a lot of that, but uh yeah. Furthermore, I did go ahead and take a selfie and it really it did a lot. It makes me look good, but it can't do anything about my hairline, so I think that the picture turned out pretty good, though I have no complaints there. It's very light. Furthermore, it's very well-balanced.

Furthermore, it does have, of course, this camera bump on the back here. Even for one camera, I don't know why they decide to take up so much space other than just to make it uniform. Looking with the other pixel 4s like the 4 and the 4xl, I do like that they bumped it up to 128 gigabytes of internal storage. That's fantastic straight out of the gate, because a lot of people are going to compare this to the iPhone SE, whether that's fair or not. I mean go for it sure, but the iPhone SE has 64 128 256.

, I'm glad to see that they started it off at 128, even though there's no 256 option. Thank you for not doing a 64 gigabyte storage model. Six gigabytes of ram with the processor- that's in here I think, is totally fine. I know I've made some complaints about other phones only having six gigabytes of ram, but google and their pixel phones are as good as it gets when it comes to memory management and all the stuff that they do with their very, very bare bones, basically native version of android. I have a lot less concerns there, especially since Google is the one that's handling it and not some third-party manufacturer with their own software implementations.

So if it were a flagship phone, I would say yeah it needs at least eight, but for a budget 350 dollar phone, I don't have a problem with six gigabytes of ram. The screen actually looks really nice, I'm glad it's an OLED and not an LCD. If it were an LCD I'd, be like I'm just a big fan of OLED, even though CDs are perfectly fine, I just like ole duh. It is 1080p which is nice. It's funny the phone feels so small, but in reality it's the same size screen as the iPhone 11 Pro or the iPhone 10 or the iPhone 10s.

So having a 5.8-inch screen, I think, is totally doable whenever it comes to a 350 dollar phone, and if you want to do, if you want to compare to the iPhone SE, it's got a 4.7-inch screen with a much smaller, less impressive resolution on an LCD screen. So there are some nice things here and, of course, the headphone jack on top. If you want to plug in your headphones earphones whatever, even though they didn't come in the box but whatever that's fine, it does have the fingerprint sensor on the back. There's no facial recognition, there's no IP rating, there's no wireless charging, but I'm totally cool with those things for 350 bucks. If they were to charge more money for this, and we're talking 450 500, I would be more concerned with some of those compromises.

But when you look at the landscape of 300 to 400, android phones and what you get with the camera in this, it's got a really nice screen. It's got a great price on it, and it's got google, and it's going to be taken care of with software and security updates all the time for years. I like it, so I don't really have any problems with it. I think that it's good, and I've had pretty much all the pixel devices I had started with the pixel 2. Furthermore, I had the pixel 2 XL.

Furthermore, I had the pixel 3 XL. Furthermore, I had the pixel 4 and the 4xl and the 3axl. So I've had lots of these phones plenty of experience with them and each time you get them it's just it's really nice refreshing experience. You don't have all the extra stuff that's on there, like you do with like a Samsung or a lg, or some of the other android phones that just like to throw everything on there. So that's all on my unboxing and first impressions of the Pixel 4a looking forward to spending some more time with it, looking forward to making my other reviews and videos for you guys to check out here in the near future.

So I can give you all the information that you need prior to when it comes out where you can buy it. Well, you can buy it now, but it's not going to be out until August 20th, so hopefully, if you're on the fence about it, I can give you some of the information you need to make a decision on whether you're interested in picking one up or not. But that's all I've got if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them down in the comment section I'll get back with you. If you enjoyed the video, please hit the like and the subscribe button and the little notification bell, so you get updates when new videos come out. As always thanks for watching.

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