Pixel 4a 5g - 6 Month Review! | Still Google's Best Pixel in 2021? By Technically Speaking

So you're still wondering whether you should get the Pixel 4a 5g or not. Well, I'm here to tell you I probably should have already picked up one. What's up everybody. This is Scott. Welcome back to another video, I am going to record this entire video on the Google Pixel 4a 5g and tell you that you probably should buy this. This is kind of a long, terms six-month seven-month-ish review of me having the device now full disclosure.

I have not used this device as my primary driver. I've actually used this as a secondary device for the most part, because I used the pixel 5 as my primary driver. However, I use this fairly exclusively on a lot of things that I do from a side, content perspective or backup content or b-roll content. So, needless to say, the 4a 5g still gets a lot of work. Now, let's talk about the 4a5g real, quick from a spec perspective.

This is rocking the 765g chip and, with a couple of the pixel updates, we've noticed that it's actually gotten a little faster when it comes to gaming I'll just flat out, say I am not a person who games a lot. I play among us and Roblox, and things like that, and I've had no problems at all. When it comes to the 4a5g missing a beat. I predominantly use my phone as basically a social media, machine, slash content creation, machine and the 4a5g has been no slouch at all when it comes to that 765 g has been more than enough and also the same amount of storage that I have is actually more than enough. Also, the ram that's actually in the 4a 5g has been no problem at all when it comes to making sure that I can do all the things that I need to as well as multitask.

So from that perspective, if you're a little hesitant on buying the 4a 5g, because it has that lesser mid-tier chip, or it doesn't quite- have the ram that I need- or it doesn't have all the storage that I want. I'm here to tell you, even as a secondary device, I'm barely even scraping the surface, but as a primary device. When I used it, yeah didn't have any issues at all. Now when I use it as a primary device check up here, and you can see in the cards when I use it as a primary device way back in December from the display perspective and everything else about the phone, I highlighted it in my first video. This device is exceptionally slick, you're, definitely going to want to have a case on it and, as you can see in some of these shots, I'm using the pixel fabric case, because it provides just enough of that friction that I need to make sure that this thing doesn't slide completely.

Out of my pocket does have the ever present fingerprint scanner. That's on the back, and I absolutely love it. But another thing that I really like this way more than the pixel 5 is the fact that it has stereo speakers. Now. Let's talk about those stereo speakers for a second, they get exceptionally loud way better in every way, pretty much possible compared to the pixel 5.

You all know that I love the pixel 5. I have been a staunch supporter of the sound that comes out of the pixel 5 as being okay, but when you compare it to the 4a5g, doesn't even hold a candle doesn't even come close. It is the 4a 5g 10 out of 10 times when it comes to the sound that comes out of the stereo speaker pair. That front firing speaker at the top, rather than being under glass from the pixel 5, is a huge, huge differentiator in the game. Let's talk about battery life for a second again, even as a secondary device.

I go literal days, the better part of a week before I actually charge this up, even when it's on standby, so it's more than enough as a secondary device, but when it was my primary device- and I had my sim card in it, I was getting routinely six and a half to nine hours of screen on time. That is an unbelievable amount of battery life out of a device that costs no more than 500. There have been lots of times that I have seen in the past several months when you could pick up a 4a 5g for like 350 bucks, which is the only other deal. That's as good as that is the Pixel 4a. This is a pixel after all, so that means exceptional point-and-shoot camera.

But what about the video like I've mentioned? Everything here has been shot. Rear-Facing camera, 4k 30 frames a second out of the 4a 5g. Now the front-facing camera is definitely only 1080p when it comes to that, and you can tell a huge difference, but I decided that I was going to film everything basically facing away from me, so hopefully I'm actually in shot for this entire video, as I'm walking around showing you. This is what the stabilization looks like. These are what the microphones sound like.

This is what 4k 30 frames. A second looks like again just held out of a 500 device, my friend Juan Carlos Parnell, whom I will leave a link for everything that he has challenged a lot of us to go out and basically use our phones way more than we already are. The majority of us are using our phones at a fraction of the rate that it has the capability to do so. I want to show you a couple other things that I've done just strictly editing inside the pixel 4 a5g, I'm going to use the Google recorder app plug in an external microphone inside my studio record, a very quick podcast-like experience edit it using the Google recorder app and then export it and put it in this video. Just so, you all know what it sounds like literally all the editing will be done inside the 4a5g exported output on my MacBook.

Only because I need to get it in a final cut for this particular video so enjoy this one particular shot that I have from a photo perspective with a bit of an overlay of audio that all was done through the magic of the 4a 5g. When my belly starts a rumbling, and I'm Jones for a treat, I close my eyes for a big surprise: the tender crisp bacon, cheddar ranch. I love the tender, crisp bacon, cheddar ranch, the streams of bacon ranch dressing flow right up to your knees. There's tumbleweeds of bacon and cheddar paves the streets. Folks, don't French it because you got the juice there's a train.

Elise, never get in trouble, never need an excuse. The tender crisp bacon cheddar ranch. So there you go everything done here. This is my long-term review of the 4a5g. Is this something that I think you should buy? Yeah? Absolutely no question? This is probably the best current pixel that you can buy again.

Arguably, outside the pixel 5. , there's some nuance differences. Of course, you got the wireless charging, but then you have the three and a half millimeter headphone jack and the 4a 5g, but the wireless charging it's in the pixel 5. A little smaller of a footprint in the pixel 5. This is the bigger version uh when it comes to the 4a5d there's a few other little Nancy things, but the camera experience is exactly the same.

The battery life is basically exactly the same. The performance of the device is effectively the same thing too, so it really comes down to the preference. Do you want a bigger device? Do you not want a bigger device again? This is one of those great things about the Google Pixel line. The way that google has done it is the fact is they're just shoving all the updates into all the pixel lines, regardless of what you choose. So it gives us consumers the power of choice.

I absolutely would buy a 4a 5g again for 500 bucks. If you can get a deal out there to get it for, like 400 or 350 to me, it's an absolute no-brainer. So that's it! That's all. I have thanks for watching and, as always as, share subscribe thumbs up, leave a comment below we'll see you next time. You.

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