WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:02.283 - Who's in the market for a Pixel 5a? 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:07.270 A 31 year old with braces. Just joking, I run a Pixel 4, 00:00:07.270 --> 00:00:11.400 and it's a retainer, 'cause I forgot to put it in last night, and I got to get my straighten on. 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:15.850 5a, it's pretty interesting, except that it's not, because it's the same as the 4a, 00:00:15.850 --> 00:00:18.957 let's take a look at it. It's kind of a weird place for Google to be in, 00:00:18.957 --> 00:00:22.980 because with the Pixel 5, the flagship started sucking, 00:00:22.980 --> 00:00:27.700 and then the A-Series was kind of better. But now, the flagship 6 is supposed to be wicked, 00:00:27.700 --> 00:00:31.280 except that I hate the way it looks. And now you've got the 5a, 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:35.500 which is almost literally the exact same as last year's 4a, 00:00:35.500 --> 00:00:40.170 you hear that lisp? Jesus. But it's like Apple has the SE, 00:00:40.170 --> 00:00:44.240 and they probably would have just not made a refresh every year, 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:49.820 but Google was like, "Hey, why not just refresh it?" It's mostly the exact same, it's slightly larger 00:00:49.820 --> 00:00:54.670 and I think it's metal now. The cameras are the same, the SoC is the same, 00:00:54.670 --> 00:00:58.330 the battery is bigger, though, and that might just be all you need to know. 00:00:58.330 --> 00:01:03.640 Because I've had a Pixel 3 and a Pixel 4, and in both cases, I've had battery issues. 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:08.330 The 3 I had to RMA because the battery was so bad, it couldn't get through, like, one game of Catan. 00:01:08.330 --> 00:01:12.000 And then this one, which I've had for maybe a year, 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:16.317 just in the last couple of days, I've noticed, I'm plugging this thing in like twice a day. 00:01:16.317 --> 00:01:21.477 It's hard for me to measure 'cause I'm already a grazer, not like a plug-in-over-nighter. 00:01:21.477 --> 00:01:25.807 "Welcome to your new Pixel. Tap for tips." Hmm, we love tips around here. 00:01:25.807 --> 00:01:31.590 "Learn the essentials." Okay, look at this tutorial, it's great. I think I should know everything in here, right? 00:01:31.590 --> 00:01:35.900 That's my job. Let's compare it to this flagship. One of the things I like about the Pixels here is 00:01:35.900 --> 00:01:39.050 that they're very small. They're one of the smallest phones you can get, 00:01:39.050 --> 00:01:43.240 especially if you don't get the XL. This is actually way bigger than this Pixel 4 00:01:43.240 --> 00:01:46.870 and slightly bigger than the 4a. And it's quite a bit heavier, 00:01:46.870 --> 00:01:49.173 even though this is like more metal and glass. 00:01:50.060 --> 00:01:55.300 Scale, scale please. There he is, there's my boy. 00:01:55.300 --> 00:01:59.373 Pounds? What use is that? Only 164 grams. 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:04.040 Only 175 grams. So it's only 10 grams more, I guess, 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:07.442 but I think it's 15 grams more than the last 4a. 00:02:07.442 --> 00:02:13.270 Honestly, I think more people should just buy these. I think we don't need to spend $1000, or 1200, 00:02:13.270 --> 00:02:18.040 or $2,000 on a phone. I think for most people, you're not gonna notice. 00:02:18.040 --> 00:02:21.390 The camera on this thing is great. The screen's only 60 Hertz, but hey, 00:02:21.390 --> 00:02:25.280 that's all we had like two years ago. Are iPhones still on 60 Hertz? 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:29.280 It's fine, it's fine for most people. Look, it's snappy, yeah, it's brand new, 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:33.400 but I think people are just, their phones are like their genitals at this point, 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:37.750 instead of having a nice car, you don't have a car cause you live in a city and you're a millennial who can't afford it. 00:02:37.750 --> 00:02:41.463 So you just buy a nice phone. Look how cool my phone is. Stop it. 00:02:41.463 --> 00:02:45.780 That's right, David, there's a headphone jack on the top. - [David] What? - Again, so stupid. 00:02:45.780 --> 00:02:49.156 This phone has a way bigger battery than last time 00:02:49.156 --> 00:02:53.130 and a headphone jack, it can be done, and, guess what? 00:02:53.130 --> 00:02:56.130 It has greater ingress protection than the last one too. 00:02:56.130 --> 00:02:59.404 It has all three, the trilemma has been solved. 00:02:59.404 --> 00:03:00.553 Imagine that. 00:03:02.780 --> 00:03:08.240 This is exactly like my current Pixel, I mean, that makes sense, it has the same software. 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:11.300 You know, it's a lot nicer to look this way. 00:03:11.300 --> 00:03:14.960 This part of the studio is kind of uggo, I mean, you guys are handsome. 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:18.580 The stabilization is great. It's high enough resolution. 00:03:18.580 --> 00:03:22.000 This is fine, stop buying iPhones, save your money. 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:25.630 Remember that ING Direct guy? So, display-wise compared to the predecessor, 00:03:25.630 --> 00:03:28.880 it's just 0.2 inches more screen. 00:03:28.880 --> 00:03:32.130 It's fully wrapped round, it's got the hole punch up here, it's all OLED. 00:03:32.130 --> 00:03:36.620 It is 60 Hertz. Also, they dropped the facial recognition from the flagship 00:03:36.620 --> 00:03:41.790 and in the A-series, starting from the 4a to now, they have the fingerprint, which is back, 00:03:41.790 --> 00:03:45.780 Wish I had had that during the pandemic wearing masks the whole time, this sucked. 00:03:45.780 --> 00:03:50.456 I've been using my pattern, like a peasant, for a year. 00:03:50.456 --> 00:03:53.970 And you know, the fingerprint's always been faster because you can actually unlock it 00:03:53.970 --> 00:03:58.820 while it's still in your pocket on your way to your face. The next one on the 6, 00:03:58.820 --> 00:04:02.820 it has like a belt that goes across, which I hate the look of, but maybe that'll prevent rocking. 00:04:02.820 --> 00:04:06.710 Also on the 6, they're using their new Tensor silicon, their in-house silicon. 00:04:06.710 --> 00:04:10.620 So, this could be the last Pixel phone that has a Qualcomm Snapdragon. 00:04:10.620 --> 00:04:14.610 And I don't know if that's gonna be a good or bad thing, but if we're looking at M1s, 00:04:14.610 --> 00:04:17.710 it seems like vertical integration in that realm is a positive. 00:04:17.710 --> 00:04:21.410 All right, let's listen to the speakers of this baby. But before I do that, 00:04:21.410 --> 00:04:24.333 it's time for Jono to throw something at me. Ah, ha ha! 00:04:26.238 --> 00:04:27.623 Oh my God. 00:04:30.644 --> 00:04:34.993 Oh my God. I'm so glad I'm not Linus. 00:04:36.237 --> 00:04:42.260 This is awesome. It's a dbrand grip case with an unflattering screen grab 00:04:42.260 --> 00:04:48.030 from WAN Show. Oh, that's rough, man, he just looks like super stoned and pixelated. 00:04:48.030 --> 00:04:52.890 At least his beard was trimmed that day, they could have done worse. He's got the dad hat on backwards, 00:04:52.890 --> 00:04:56.520 which actually kind of matches those headphones. This is such a light case. 00:04:56.520 --> 00:05:00.070 Did they change it? This feels like (phone case smacking loudly) 00:05:00.070 --> 00:05:03.420 slaps the roof. This thing will fit so many phones. 00:05:03.420 --> 00:05:08.410 Oh, now it feels very safe. Sorry, was this a brand new phone? 00:05:08.410 --> 00:05:11.580 That's why you get this case and you can see that it actually comes off a little bit 00:05:11.580 --> 00:05:15.230 from the face so if it lands like this, you've got some protection, I mean, 00:05:15.230 --> 00:05:18.339 you could still land on a pebble or something like that. Oh, oh, whoa. 00:05:18.339 --> 00:05:22.860 The buttons are definitely different. Oh, so tactile, y'all. 00:05:22.860 --> 00:05:27.470 All right, dbrand, thanks for the money, thanks for the case. It's kind of annoying to me when you buy the flagship, 00:05:27.470 --> 00:05:32.300 because you're an elitist, and then the mid range is better, like it has a headphone jack and also, 00:05:32.300 --> 00:05:36.170 look how slim that speaker is at the top there now. See that up there? 00:05:36.170 --> 00:05:41.640 It's just very skinny like you see on a Samsung phone. Back in my day, we had a huge forehead 00:05:41.640 --> 00:05:45.470 with a little speaker. Whoa, is this the default size? 00:05:45.470 --> 00:05:50.335 This keyboard is huge. (electronic music) 00:05:52.620 --> 00:05:57.930 You mean you got double the speakerage at the bottom so you can do the handcuff thing and point it at yourself. 00:05:57.930 --> 00:06:04.180 The test for me is how annoyed would I be if someone was using this as the speaker at a party, 00:06:04.180 --> 00:06:07.840 if I was like playing cards or something like that, and this is all we had, or I'm at the beach, 00:06:07.840 --> 00:06:11.763 how awful would that be? Not the worst, not the worst. 00:06:13.041 --> 00:06:17.330 You don't want to hang out with those people. You definitely don't want be that guy. 00:06:17.330 --> 00:06:20.530 If you're at home and you can't find your headphones, you just want to share a quick video on the couch 00:06:20.530 --> 00:06:24.470 with your loved one like on TikTok or some other app that I would never use, 00:06:24.470 --> 00:06:28.340 then sure, they're fine. This phone actually did lose a couple of things. 00:06:28.340 --> 00:06:33.930 It has 5G, like the predecessor, but it doesn't have the millimeter wave 5G, 00:06:33.930 --> 00:06:37.050 but no one really cares because it's not broadly available. 00:06:37.050 --> 00:06:41.890 And as Linus showed on the last Tech Tips, if someone stands in front of you, it doesn't work. 00:06:41.890 --> 00:06:45.160 But there's also some mid-band that it doesn't have, which is a more of a loss. 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:50.530 How much does this thing cost? 450? The previous one was 50 bucks more than that. 00:06:50.530 --> 00:06:53.630 This is awesome. 450? This is gonna be my phone again. 00:06:53.630 --> 00:06:55.423 I used to have a Nexus 5X. 00:06:56.950 --> 00:07:00.950 Yeah, that one was cool 'cause it had like a nice colored back. But at least this one has a feature button, 00:07:00.950 --> 00:07:04.530 like the button is a different color. I like the little, I don't know if you guys can see that, 00:07:04.530 --> 00:07:09.657 but it's got like this knurling on it. It's ribbed for my pleasure. 00:07:09.657 --> 00:07:13.880 "Wayne's World" guys, have you seen it? If you're the type of person who runs their phone naked, 00:07:13.880 --> 00:07:18.060 this isn't so bad 'cause even if you're careful with your phone, one thing that happens, 00:07:18.060 --> 00:07:23.350 is it just falls out of your pocket. You put it in your shorts, you sit in the car and then it's so slippery 00:07:23.350 --> 00:07:28.015 that it just like works its way out and then suddenly, it's fallen onto the movie theater floor 00:07:28.015 --> 00:07:33.540 which was covered in sticky pop. This feels not that slippery, it's not as bad as glass. 00:07:33.540 --> 00:07:38.502 It has the kind of a soft touch, you wouldn't actually know that this is metal. 00:07:38.502 --> 00:07:41.535 It does have like a rubber kind of soft touch coating on it. 00:07:41.535 --> 00:07:46.940 I think it looks really cool and clean the way that it dips for that fingerprint reader 00:07:46.940 --> 00:07:50.810 then it comes back up, it looks pretty awesome, seamless. 00:07:50.810 --> 00:07:55.003 It only comes in one color, they're calling this, almost black? 00:07:55.003 --> 00:07:58.040 Because they have Just Black, last model was Just Black, 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:01.420 I think this is almost black or blackish. It looks actually kind of green to me, 00:08:01.420 --> 00:08:04.713 kind of like how in "The Matrix" everything's green even when it's not. 00:08:04.713 --> 00:08:08.260 Subscribe to Carpool Critics. Another reason to get a Google Pixel phone 00:08:08.260 --> 00:08:12.927 rather than maybe even like a cheaper, or more feature complete Chinese phone, 00:08:12.927 --> 00:08:18.414 is that you get the Google features, so you got the Recorder app, which actually is useful. 00:08:18.414 --> 00:08:23.550 Basically, it just records audio but while it does it, it types out a transcript. 00:08:23.550 --> 00:08:27.850 And maybe that's not the most reliable transcript ever, especially if there's multiple people in the room, 00:08:27.850 --> 00:08:30.971 but what it does allow you to do is easily search your audio recording. 00:08:30.971 --> 00:08:35.350 And be like, what was the part where we talked about birthday cake? You type it in, oh, that's what they said about the cake. 00:08:35.350 --> 00:08:40.660 That's awesome, that's a Google First-Party App. They also have, and this is a lifesaver 00:08:40.660 --> 00:08:44.960 in today's spam-filled world, they have the Screen Call button. 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:49.340 If someone calls you, you hit Screen Call, Google Assistant answers the phone and talks to them. 00:08:49.340 --> 00:08:53.800 And then when they respond, it types out what they're saying on the screen. Most scammers, as soon as I hit that button, 00:08:53.800 --> 00:08:58.110 they just leave and I don't even have to mess with that. And sometimes, when it is a number I don't recognize 00:08:58.110 --> 00:09:02.350 that turns out to be the dentist, you get to answer because I don't even have voicemail. 00:09:02.350 --> 00:09:06.850 Get rid of voicemail, get a Google phone. You are set, your life is way better. 00:09:06.850 --> 00:09:11.030 Let's take some pictures. Oh yeah, the depth. 00:09:11.030 --> 00:09:15.630 What the hell is going on here? Is this a bug? 00:09:15.630 --> 00:09:19.940 What the hell is happening? Are you seeing this? 00:09:19.940 --> 00:09:24.340 I've never had this before. Yeah, I do get some aliasing and lose some detail 00:09:24.340 --> 00:09:28.520 when I zoom all the way in. But when I go, even to like times two, 00:09:28.520 --> 00:09:31.680 it still looks very sharp. This is still a good camera. 00:09:31.680 --> 00:09:36.931 Oh, Linus! That is probably like 12 feet away from me. 00:09:36.931 --> 00:09:40.990 (imitates lens zoom) Still decent. 00:09:40.990 --> 00:09:44.770 I think this is pretty good, I mean, it's not like a gimmick, like, it's got a periscope on it, 00:09:44.770 --> 00:09:51.000 you can zoom into the moon, 50x. It's just very workable, especially considering the price. 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:54.860 And you know, you're gonna get security updates for a long time and you're gonna get updates first. 00:09:54.860 --> 00:09:59.200 You don't have to wait for Android to release it to LG, doesn't exist anymore, 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:02.790 and then for them to finally give it to your phone like months later, you're gonna get it right away. 00:10:02.790 --> 00:10:08.439 So, I think I might stick with the Pixel family for longer, 00:10:08.439 --> 00:10:12.660 especially if they're making the batteries bigger 'cause unfortunately, on this puppy, 00:10:12.660 --> 00:10:15.880 this is the one where they introduced a higher refresh rate screen and 00:10:15.880 --> 00:10:21.066 they introduced the radar thing where you're approaching your phone and it like lights up and crap, 00:10:21.066 --> 00:10:24.340 and they have like swipe gestures. I had to just turn all that stuff off 00:10:24.340 --> 00:10:28.100 because it was just draining the battery too much. The A line's where I'm gonna be from now on, guys. 00:10:28.100 --> 00:10:31.250 - [David] Heck yeah, join me, brother. - Preach! 00:10:31.250 --> 00:10:36.140 Unless that 6 is dope. I want to see that, maybe the 6a is when I'm upgrading. 00:10:36.140 --> 00:10:42.220 We didn't actually unbox it. You got a SIM card, pin, you got some literature, 00:10:42.270 --> 00:10:46.190 you get the adapter, this is for setting up your phone if you need to, like, ah, 00:10:46.190 --> 00:10:49.350 you wanted to take stuff off of your previous phone and put it onto this phone, 00:10:49.350 --> 00:10:53.650 you get a USB-C to C, that's a nice presentation, 00:10:53.650 --> 00:10:57.409 and you actually do get a charger, I've seen some rumors that the 6 is not gonna come 00:10:57.409 --> 00:11:01.265 with a wall wart. I mean, mixed feelings. 00:11:01.265 --> 00:11:05.090 On the one hand, I don't like there to be unnecessary e-waste in the world. 00:11:05.090 --> 00:11:09.937 But on the other hand, I don't think that these are that common yet. I still see a lot of 00:11:09.937 --> 00:11:13.044 USB Micro B chargers around 00:11:13.044 --> 00:11:17.410 and even in my house, I think I forgot my charger on vacation 00:11:17.410 --> 00:11:21.330 and then now there's like one between me and my wife and it is not enough. 00:11:21.330 --> 00:11:25.420 Like, it gets moved from the couch area to the bedroom, like, where's the charger? 00:11:25.420 --> 00:11:29.419 So, I do still want one of these. Fortunately, you can get one if you buy this phone. 00:11:29.419 --> 00:11:32.850 So cool, thanks for watching, guys. 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