Is the $349 Google PIXEL 4a WORTH IT? Google Pixel 4a Review By Seth

This is the Google Pixel 4a it's a 350 budget smartphone, that's surprisingly capable hey, I'm Seth, and I usually unbox anything, but today I'm changing up the channel a little, and I'm doing my first ever phone review. First off. I want to give a huge thank you to google and team pixel for sending over this phone early for me to check out. This is not a sponsored review by any stretch of the imagination, but I did want to let you guys know that I got this phone for free. This review will be unbiased. I will give you guys my honest thoughts of the Google Pixel 4a.

What I liked about it, what I didn't and whether it's worth the 350 price point, the Google Pixel 4a releases on August 20th for a retail price of 350 bucks like I said, and you can actually pre-order this phone right now through Google, unfortunately- or I guess not so, unfortunately, if you like black, this phone only comes in matte black, the one little color accent on the entire phone is actually this tiny little mint green power button. To be honest, I really like that pop of color speaking of the buttons they are super click and feel really, really great, I'm taking pictures of my camera. Damn I didn't mean to do that I'll, just click the volume rocker, but listen how click? That is that's awesome. It feels great, unlike a lot of current smartphones on the market. The entire back housing of the Pixel 4a is made up entirely of plastic, which I guess isn't a bad thing.

It's definitely more budget material, but it doesn't feel as premium as some other phones in similar price points. To be honest, though, I actually think that might make the phone a little more durable because you don't have the chance of shattering the entire back of the phone when you drop it. It also makes the phone incredibly light, which is great, probably shouldn't be throwing it like this, but it's really easy too, because it's so light. In my opinion, if this phone was any more expensive than 350 bucks, I wouldn't be a fan of the fact that this phone comes with an entire plastic back. But let's be real.

It's a budget phone, so they're saving price of materials, and also you're, probably going to put a case on it anyway, so you won't even notice this back material in addition to the Pixel 4a, currently only coming in one color option, it also only comes in one sizing option and one storage capacity option. The AMOLED display measures in at a pretty decent 5.8, inches diagonally, and because of these bezels being so small, it really makes the form factor of the phone feel great and as a man with average man-sized hands, they're, not huge they're, not tiny. The phone fits great in my hand, and I can touch any point of the screen. Unlike with my iPhone pro max, the bezels on the phone are all generally the same size except for the bottom, where it's ever so slightly larger, and because of that, the screen fills out the entire front of the phone really nicely. Of course, as you probably already noticed, instead of having a notch on the front of the phone like an iPhone, you have a whole punch out on the left side for the front-facing camera.

Unlike some people, I actually prefer the hole punch out camera because I feel like it's a little less obtrusive than having this giant notch in the center of the phone, and instead it's kind of off to the side, and it just looks like a little dot on your screen. In fact, on a lot of different websites, I thought it was my profile picture or the place where my profile picture would be, and because of that, I actually clicked on it a couple of times. So maybe it's not the best detail in the world, but I don't mind it especially not as much as a notch. The front-facing camera comes in at eight megapixels and is decent. It's not incredible.

It's not bad though, and the video is definitely not as good as photos. The AMOLED screen comes in at 2340x1080 and has a 60hz refresh rate. It's not an incredible screen, but for the price point it's really not bad and as someone who's used to higher res screens with higher refresh rates, I really didn't even notice that much of a difference, and again it's a 350 budget smartphone and for that price point you're, getting pretty solid performance. No, it's not as good as some of the crazy Samsung's and iPhones on the market right now, but it's really not bad, especially for the price. You can still do everyday tasks like posting on social media, getting email taking calls sending text messages, really anything that you would do on your standard phone.

The only thing it doesn't do amazing at is running really graphically intensive games, which you can still do. They just won't run as well as a premium flagship. The Pixel 4a also comes with six gigabytes of ram, which again isn't industry leading, but it's really not bad. As for storage capacity, the Google 4a comes with a pretty solid 128 gigabytes, which is better than last year's 3a, which only had 64. Like I mentioned earlier, there aren't any other storage options when it comes to the Pixel 4a.

So what you see is what you get you're going to have to go with the 128 gig unless they come out with a larger version later on down the road, but I think it's fine, and it should last you a long time. The one downside, at least for some people, is that this phone does not come with expandable storage, so 128 is really all you get, but I have to be honest. A lot of people, including myself, never really used expandable storage and I think really only android power users will be using that and most of those people will be buying higher end phones anyway. So TL, Dr 128 gigs, is what you get with this phone and, if you're buying this phone anyway, it should be enough for you, speaking of call quality. When I got this phone, google give me a free month of google five, which is what I've been using for this phone, and I got a say when it comes to the actual call quality itself.

I've not been overly impressed. I didn't have any connection issues, but the sound really sounded tinny compared to other smartphones on the market. Now, to be honest, I'm not sure if that's because of google, PHY or because of the actual phone itself, but the more that I use this phone and the more that I call people on it. I'm really starting to think that it's a phone issue and not so much a Google phi issue that said, calls sounded decent. They weren't terrible, but it wasn't anywhere close to what I'm used to on other premium flagships, but that's actually sort of a perfect lead-in to the speakers on this phone.

They're. Fine, but they're, not great. There is one speaker on the bottom of the phone and one speaker on the top of the phone and when you're listening to things like YouTube videos or calls on speakerphone, they sound fine, they're, a little tinny, and they don't have a lot of bass, they're still workable. You can still totally hear everything that's going on. It just doesn't sound as full as it would have if it had stereo speakers in the bottom of the phone.

One kind of standout feature- I guess if you're into this- is that this phone still has a 3.5, millimeter headphone jack, which a lot of phones right now don't have. I always thought that I would be sad when phone companies got rid of the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, but the newer phones that I got and the fact that I kept getting wireless headphones really made me not miss that detail at all, but I know that there are a lot of people out there who still use the headphone jack and would love the fact that this phone still has that option. Then moving around to the back of the phone, like the other pixels currently on the market. You've got your fingerprint sensor in the top middle of the back. I love fingerprint sensors for me, they're, so much easier to use in like face scans, because you don't have to hold the phone at a weird angle.

You can just press the back of the phone, and it's unlocked to be fair. The fingerprint sensor on the back of this phone is not as fast as touch ID, but it wasn't ever too slow to where I noticed it being a problem plus. I love the placement of this fingerprint reader on the back of the phone, because your finger is already resting there anyway, and it's super easy to unlock, but moving on to the standout features of the Google Pixel 4a. First off the battery in this phone is a 3 140 William hour battery and this phone lasts all day. I've been thoroughly impressed with the battery life on this phone.

I'm a very heavy user, and this phone lasted me like a day and a half on the first charge. Now to be fair, it could be because the phone doesn't have the craziest screen or processor, so they're not draining the phone as much as like a flagship phone would have, but it's still a solid battery life, and you definitely won't be disappointed. The one thing that did kind of bum me out about the battery overall is that this phone doesn't have wireless charging. You can only charge the phone through the USB on the bottom, which don't get me wrong is faster, but I have a wireless charger. Next to my bed, I like to drop my phone on the wireless charger and be good to go the next morning, but unfortunately, you do not have this option on this phone.

Definitely not a dealbreaker, though, because most people charge their phones using the cable that comes with it and then the final standout feature that really makes this 350 dollar phone stand out. The camera, the Pixel 4a, comes with a 12.2 megapixel camera, which takes incredible photos, unlike the pixel 4. However, you only have one lens, but to be fair, you don't really ever need that second lens or probably ever use it even without the extra lens the zoom and the portrait mode on this phone are excellent because of Google's powerful digital processing and from what I can tell the camera on. This phone is one of the best cameras you can get on pretty much any phone and this phone is only 350 bucks. I was especially impressed with the night mode on this phone.

It takes great photos at night, and it's better than a lot of other phones in even higher classes, and to give you an idea of how the back camera looks and sounds when it comes to video, it's definitely workable, and if you want to grab a cheap vlogging camera that also works as a phone, you can grab the Pixel 4a. The Google Pixel 4a is a pretty simple phone, and it's simple because it only costs 350 bucks, but there are some standout features on this phone, like the battery life and the camera that really make this phone a very compelling choice, especially if you're very budget conscious know it might not be as powerful as other flagship android phones, but it's a third of the price, and you really get a solid phone overall. So if you want a solid everyday phone that takes excellent pictures and has great battery life for a 350 price point, the Google Pixel 4a is a great way to go. But with that we wrap up my review for today. Now I would love to know your thoughts on the Google Pixel 4a and whether it's a phone that you would consider picking up.

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Source : Seth