Pixel 4a 5G Full Review with Unboxing: The Best Value of 2020 By TechSpaceCowboy

So, so okay, I've been using the Pixel 4a 5g for about a week, is now and uh. This is my full review. First off. Let's talk specs and pricing. Now, right now on Amazon, you can get this for 380 U. S.

, so that makes an incredible price because it's got a snapdragon 765 g processor in it that's the same one from the pixel 5. , six gigs of ram and 128 gigabytes of storage for 380 refurbished and again I trust, Amazon's refurbished models. I got a refurbished pixel 2 uh back when that was the current phone and I had no problems with it. So, let's just I'm just throwing that out there, those specs for that price in a Google product so already looking good now. The first thing we'll talk about is the camera, the rear camera.

You got your same camera that you have in the pixel 5 uh, the 12 megapixel ultra-wide and standard camera bump is the exact same. The front-facing camera. You got a little hole, punch camera, which appears to be around the same size. The camera performs the same. It's got the same processor.

It's got the same software made by the same company and the same hardware. So it's the same camera, but one of the things that uh I just super, super happy about with the pixel is the battery life. It's got a 3 800 William hour battery and that lasts me all day, sometimes two days, depending on what I'm doing it's a phenomenally long battery life- and I absolutely love that about this phone's battery. It supports 18 watt fast charging, but sadly there's no QI wireless charging with this. If you're in a position like mine, where you review a lot of phones, or you review a lot of techs, I have wireless chargers about the house and I really would like to be able to just plop this down on top of one of those when a phone doesn't have it, I seriously notice it and uh it's like it just it hurts all right.

No QI charging big downside, but the rest of what you're getting is pretty sweet. Now. Another thing to note: it also does not have an ip67 or 68 rating part of what comes with cheap phones is they have to cut a lot of corners now. This may very well be nearly waterproof, but they can't give it that rating because it costs like six or eight bucks per phone or something like that. It costs google a ton of money to give the rating, and they figure that the type of person who's buying around this budget price point isn't going to be as sensitive to that effect, or they're.

Just not going to know about that fact, but I'm telling you now: it's not technically rated for it. Now it is relatively waterproof, don't go swimming with it, don't go boogie boarding or scuba diving, but um. You know I've, I used wet hands on it, and it was fine, of course, just be responsible. With your phone uh, the body is kind of one solid piece of plastic, so you know there are fewer cracks to get things in there, but it's something you have to note now uh speaking of waterproofing, since this was one of the reasons stated for removing this feature. There is a 3.5, millimeter, auxiliary, headphone jack. It's a thing that a lot of people you know miss on their phones.

I think it's mainly tech reviewers that care. I personally, as a tech review, don't care that much! Furthermore, I have wireless headphones. Furthermore, I've got plenty of different types of wireless headphones. Furthermore, I don't need a headphone jack and I won't use this headphone jack, but if you're the type of person who wants to spend 380 on a phone and then have it last three years, you also might be the type of person that doesn't want to pay for wireless headphones. So I'm glad they included it.

It's its something that I think people who want a budget phone want an option to have they want to plug their phone in. They don't have to have an extra adapter or a dongle or whatever. So good call on that part. It probably does make it less waterproof. I mean I don't know, but I'm guessing it does, but I think that's a proper compromise for this phone.

Besides that the overall look and feel of this thing, it's really light. It's really, really light all right. It's its super light. Furthermore, it's got a plastic back or polar. Whatever the fancy words, google uses to say plastic, it's got that on the back, it's thin uh! I don't I mean it's, it's a simple phone it.

It feels good in the hand it feels good in the hand it's got a 6.2 inch display and it and the display looks great getting real close here. You can't really see pixels, I'm I'm not seeing any pixels. So what's the point of going any higher resolution than that, we don't need to. If you can't see the pixel stop going higher resolution takes more processing power. We get nothing out of it all right.

It looks perfect with that hole. Punch, front-facing, camera, it's something that when I'm on my iPhone, I just, although I don't actively notice the notch. I think I subconsciously notice it because, when I use the pixel it's just, I just feel like I've got more breathing room more screen real estate. This is a 6.2 inch display. My 12 pro max is a 6.7 or 8 inch display. This still feels more spacious.

To me for how I guess it's the screen to body ratio thing, it's whatever if it's what it is. The display is gorgeous, though 10 out of 10 for the display as well. Now something that this has that and a lot of other phones don't have anymore, is a rear, fingerprint reader, which you know a lot of people might see that and think that's old tech like who cares? I love it all right. It's fast, it's stupid fast! I haven't used any of the super modern ultrasonic fingerprint readers recently, but I do know that they're slower than the ones that are on the back. The only disadvantage I have I see with this is that if it's laying on a surface like on a table, yes, you have to pick it up to unlock it with the fingerprint.

That's annoying, and I see why you'd want to in display one for that, but besides that this is stupid fast, and it works with a mask on just to give a little demo all right, locked unlock. It's just a tap right. I cannot do it slow enough to to not work as long as the right registered finger gets on there, it unlocks. So I love it. I think that you know this should stay for quite a while.

It works really well, it's its natural, and then they have the swipe gestures, where I can literally open my phone with a tap swipe down to see my notifications swipe down again. If I want to adjust right, whatever it rears fingerprint reader, keep it there's a lot. We didn't do wrong with this model that we've we changed. We fixed a lot of what Wayne broke. What Wayne broke? Now another thing: you're getting with the pixel 4 a5g and the pixel 5 is guaranteed software updates for three years.

Um, that's huge! If you're on iPhone, like many of us, and I've, been on iPhone, and you're used to just things. Just continuing to have updates for a certain number of until you don't really want to use them any more anyway, like the last update you get for your iPhone. That it'll accept you already we're like yeah I'll get the update, but, like I want a new phone already, because it's super, it's just slow, it's old everybody else has got one. That's got a know a doodad on it now, and I want to do that on my phone. So that's how it works, I'm glad google's guaranteeing that.

I think that's something that really lacks in the android space. That's been a huge competitive advantage for apple, and I think, honestly, it's going to continue being a competitive advantage until they can get people in the mindset of like oh yeah. Actually, these lines of android phones have guaranteed software updates. It's something that we need to put into consumers minds more about. You know.

This is something you need to be aware of when buying a phone. If you want it to not just be your phone for the year, if you want to continue having this same phone for years and years and years, you need to find one that that has enough horsepower to continue getting software updates, and then you need the companies to guarantee they're going to give you those software updates for those years. It's kind of an unspoken thing with iPhones that this is going to work for the next three years, minimum usually closer to five six. Overall, I think the pixel 4 a5g is a phenomenal phone, and I think that pretty much anybody looking to get a budget phone or looking for the best value you can get out of a smartphone right now should be at least considering this. There is one dealbreaker about this phone, and that is the lack of wireless charging.

That alone gets a guy like me to opt for the pixel 5. If I'm going for a pixel phone, I need it, however um if that's something you can live without, I would say this is the best value smartphone. You can get this year that I've seen, and you can expect this uh sentiment to be echoed again in a future upcoming video. Anyway. That's that's what I have to say about it.

Google well done more of this. You know, keep uh, keep doing what works. You know, don't innovate for the sake of innovation. Furthermore, you know you keep going with things that are doing. Well, don't take away stuff.

You don't need to take away. We already get enough of that from apple and at least when Apple does it they stick to it. They're like hey, we're getting rid of the headphone jack, and they don't bring it back the next year. It's gone, it's gone forever. I want to be able to trust google again to to to do something.

Otherwise, it's really hard for me to buy a phone from you say the Google Pixel 4 that had the sole chip and be like hey. Maybe I got you maybe I was one of the two people in the world that got used to waving your hand over your phone, and then you find out Google's just abandoned that technology. It's not gonna, be any future phones. Well, you screwed me, google, all right! Don't do that stuff, bring me reliable technology that works well and keep doing it. If you ditch something, ditch it for good.

If you say that you don't like wide-angle cameras, then don't just add one next year and take out the like. Stick to your word, all right: people like honesty, people like a company, that's committed to something and that they know what that company stands for and that's why Apple is worth 2.2 billion dollars right now and Google's worth like half of that, google you can get back on the horse if you keep doing this stuff all right and rant on that anyway. I want to hear your thoughts in the comments. Uh. Do you have a Google Pixel, 4a 5g 5 4 any of the pixels? What do you think of it anyway? If you're new here um, you know- and you made it this far into the video you should subscribe to the channel because uh you made it this far.

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