why does everyone still buy Pixel phones when six months later the a comes out
and usually it's better in most ways that might still be the case here with
the new pixel 7A we have it in this
weird Coral version and I'm excited to take a look as though I'm not a long
time pixel fan I did use a 7 Pro for a good little bit there when it first came
out and it was a pretty nice phone but very big and pretty darn expensive the
A-line is pixels more accessibly priced ones with usually some
mid-range specs but this one is a bit interesting because they do have a lot
of the specs that you know and love from the full size pixel phones unboxing the
phone here we have the nice bit of plastic that covers it and this very
vibrant color that we will talk about in a bit here we have a USB C2C cable that
is naughty this doesn't even feel like three feet and an OTG cable so you can
plug in your usba devices usually you use it once it's a transfer over all of
your information from your old phone and then you don't
use it ever again but hey if you want to plug a keyboard into your phone I'm not
going to stop you we also got a Sim popper a booklet it's a very fancy
little box for uh nothing and that's it for the unboxing very very simple you
get a cable you get the OTG you get no brick and right off the bat I gotta say
I like the color I'm not 100 sold I've
actually gotten used to having a more vibrant phone I usually go for just a
black phone it fits with everything you have and you know usually cover up with
a case of your case user anyways I've been using the kind of purple Oppo
finding to flip and I get a lot of comments on it people like a colorful
phone and this is another very very colorful phone so we have the coral
version here though it does come in Black Sea and snow which I'm guessing is
black blue and white is that the order I didn't but you know you can't just say
that anymore it's you got to be creative and it's definitely like a seradichi
peach it's very very vibrant as for the design it's very reminiscent of the
seven and the six before it with the 3D
metal visor though the bump is very small I haven't actually used the
regular sevens I don't know if this is similar to that but I know the 7 Pro the
visor is very very thick and it is not
too bad on this one other than that on the back we have the G so you know it's
a Google phone and then we have our two cameras and Flash it is a little bit
fingerprinted I don't know if you'll be able to see uh I got greasy gamer
fingers but it does feel pretty nice it doesn't feel super plasticky or anything
like that I know there have been past pixel phones where you know it it is
definitely full on plastic moving around the side of the phone on the right side
we have our power button and volume rocker as well as our antenna lines on
the top we have more antenna lines and our mic hole and then on the left we
have three more antenna lines and our SIM tray and finally on the bottom we
have two speakers and a USB-C for charging and let's pop it open Google
historically does not do dual SIM as far as I'm aware for physical you do get an
esim but maybe that changes here and yeah it's just one nano SIM some people
don't really care as long as they have esim but I actually really like having dual physical Sim it makes it easy for
someone like me who switches phones very often but I'm also abnormal and you
probably aren't switching your phone all that often so with the a series like I
said it's usually they're more kind of entry level or mid-range phone and sometimes you get cutbacks from the
flagship phones because of that but it does still have a good weight to it we'll wait and see how much it is 192
grams that's what five slices of bread no I'm only gonna get lucky with that
once there's no way I'm gonna get that again I know one of the ways they did reduce probably the cost and maybe the
weight is this front display so it's a 6.1 inch geo-led screen don't know what
the G stands for none of the stuff we got here before release explains what that is but I'm gonna assume it stands
for Google because they got to be special it is with Gorilla Glass 3
though which is interesting so I used uh something that's a couple Generations old obviously we survived a year with
Gorilla Glass 3 before but it does seem like a bit of a steep drop off from the
victus 2 we're getting a lot of flagships now but if that's gonna be what saves you you know a couple of
hundred dollars here or there it's probably worth it and just don't drop
your phone all of your information another way they're able to reduce
pricing is that it is just a 60 to 90 Hertz screen so you're not getting the
full 120 hertz that we're getting in a lot of flagships now but 90hz still is
quite good and again if you've only been on a 60 hertz screen before those steps
up really do make a difference for your everyday usage and it is IP67 plus new
to the pixel 7A compared to the 6A this has wireless charging this is a 4 385
milliamp hour battery which is a little bit lower than the 5000 milliamp hour
batteries we're getting in other flagships or even budget to mid-range phones but it does include 7.5 watt
wireless charging and up to 18 watt fast charging that's not the fastest cable
charging but again for most folks that's probably fine and the addition of
wireless charging is huge and it might not seem like that big of a deal if you
don't have it right now but as somebody who's had it and lost it not having
wireless charging in my phone sucks you know a lot of cars now have wireless
charging pads or if you're just like in an office and you want to be able to see
your phone with like the the Google pixel stand or whatever like that it is
really great to have and size wise for the phone uh it's like the same as the
6A so if you are coming from that phone it does look very very similar obviously
again the visors are a little bit different and there's like you know 0.5
of a millimeter difference on Dimensions but otherwise they are very very similar
uh looks wise but that's pretty much all there is for the outside of the phone so
I guess we should hear from our sponsor dbrand for some reason Google sent us
the coral one and uh you know maybe they thought Linus was gonna unbox it he
likes the pink car the pink everything but for myself I wanted something a
little bit more fashionable like the black one so we hit up our friends at
dbrand to send us over a black pixel 7A but they told us to off and send us
something better the grip case now you
may know that I'm not a big case user I just believe that you shouldn't drop
your phone then you can use your phone in its nice slick glass metal plastic
body whatever it's made of and it feels great in the hand but if I were to use a
case obviously it would be the dbrand grip case because it has thousands of
contact points with their super fine dots so it sticks to anything look
it's not going anywhere Plus
your phone is totally fine even though our relationship with dbrand might be a
little hit and miss I mean they're kind of douchebags if you haven't noticed
they do know how to make a great product that goes with any outfit like this one
or this high quality shirt it just goes with anything also it has nice clicky
buttons listen
what do you think of this oh clicky buttons and he's not sponsored by
dbrand no way man so if you want to fit in with all the cool kids and protect
your phone go to shortlineus.com and tell him Belle sent you or don't I don't
know I don't really care honestly we can cut dbrand's great but if you don't like
their cases for whatever weird reason we do have one of the Google pixel 7A cases
in a very conflicting color that almost
certainly will not go well I'm guessing is this the C color we'll never know
what they call it but it does look like the seafoam group blue green blue
there's that kind of like Soft Touch silicone plastic feel that I'm actually
really not a fan of if you have like a pair of the xm5s or anything like that's
that same as like the headband and uh yeah I mean I guess it kind of goes well
together if you like a bit of a statement look but yeah I'm not a fan of
the the feel of this case I don't know how much it costs but stick stick with
dbrand or caseless chill I want dbrand
to like me leave that in all right booting up the phone here uh right away
it's asking if we want suggestions on the home screen I'm never a fan of stuff like this I'm glad you get an option of
turning it off right away because uh I know quite a few phones have to go into
the home screen settings and change it to be off of having suggestions at the
top it's like never correct in an iPhone I know Siri suggestion are also awful so
I'm really happy for that booting it up obviously this is a pixel phone it's
stock Android you're not going to have anything super fancy for skins or
overlays or anything that's going to slow down your phone or you know prevent
a layer between you and what you want to actually access in your phone which I'm
a big fan of as somebody who used to be a big fan of HTC Sense back in the day
with the cool widgets that would like it had like the cloud the rain cloud for
the weather and everything like that I loved that as I've grown older I've
realized that sucks and it slows down your phone and really just muddies up
everything you're doing so having stock Android is obviously great and with a
pixel phone you're getting a lot of the features that coming soon to Android like call screening the now playing for
music in the background everything like that that again nice to have again for
all these apps that you do see here on here a lot of them are going to be things that we've installed for Labs
testing like the games Reddit everything like that you just have the Google
versions of all of these apps so if you're coming from Samsung and you like their notes or Oppo and you like the
Zaza remote you might not get that here but you do get all the bass Android apps
that I do usually find quite a bit better and you know use for myself even
when I'm on different Android operating systems and speaking of stock Android we
do have Android 13 here which is the latest version and I'm sure you'll get the next version as well and maybe even
the version after that that'd be nuts that'd be unheard of and Google promises
five years of security updates which is again great and a trend we like to see
and for other specs on the phone this is the eight gigs of RAM and 120 gigs of
storage model which is the only model so if you're somebody who downloads a ton
of playlists games or you know films a lot of movies on this you want to be
aware that you are limited on storage and would have to look at Cloud Alternatives or be sure to back up your
phone and take stuff off fairly often I personally don't have issues with 120
gigs of storage but I know people have commented in videos saying that is not
enough for them and they need that one terabyte version and I've said it before
and say it again uh that's that's us it's a little sus what is cool is that
this is still powered by the tensor 2 chip that is in the Seven and Seven Pro
so you're not going to see a huge performance difference hopefully so it is nice that they're not going to
purposely Nerf this phone just to get you to a higher end model or anything like that and it doesn't the Titan M2
security chip so it'll be protecting your logins and passwords everything like that which is something we should
take a look at does it have a fingerprint scanner it's clearly not built into the power button usually you
can visibly tell there'll be a ring around it or something like that to make
it more clear so let's see if it has an under display fingerprint scanner well
that's a good sign right off the bat it says face and fingerprint unlock so
depending on what you like to do to unlock your phone you have a couple different options I'm more of a fan of
fingerprints I feel it's a little bit more secure than face but you can always
use both so you have the quick access to take a look at your information and you
know if it's down on a table you can use your finger or whatever like that but let's see how fast it is all right the
moment of truth pretty quick
the only thing I wish is I would wake up when you put your thumb on the fingerprint scanner I know there's quite
a few phones that are kind of primed and ready so as soon as it feels your finger on that spot it'll light up and let you
into your phone it is a little bit annoying to have to like double tap the screen or make sure to hit the power
button but first world problems otherwise for connectivity and all the
other inside specs it's pretty bog standard you have Wi-Fi 6E Bluetooth 5.3
and 5G but what is interesting is you can pay a premium to get 5G millimeter
wave so if you're in a big city where they have millimeter wave 5G and you
want those Ultra fast speeds you can pay an extra 50 bucks to get that out to
your phone but I feel like for most people
maybe you probably don't need that I feel like 5G millimeter wave is still a
little bit out but again if that works for your city and you want those super
fast speeds go for it our model here is the 5G millimeter wave which could
explain why there are so many antenna lines all over the phone now let's get
into display and speakers I've got a hankering for some crab Brave it's been
a while you know it's been a while crab song who searched crab song
oh I gotta say I'm pretty impressed it does
seem to clip a little bit at the highest volume again I don't feel like most
people are listening to things at max volume but if you're gonna allow your speaker to go that loud you should make
sure that it's not going to have any rattles or you know sound bad but
surprisingly it didn't feel like it was super balanced to the right side of the
phone it did still feel like it was kind of coming from a center channel and
especially when you're holding it in your hands with you know kind of cupping it to bring the audio more towards your
face it sounded quite good as for the screen quality it looks great it's an
OLED it is only full HD but I don't feel like you can really tell on the phone
this small unless you're getting really really close to it it still did look quite sharp my only real complaint on
the display is that I do wish I got a little bit brighter what you're looking
at is Max brightness which you can tell is not super super bright because it's
not peaking the camera it does get up to 495 and it's in SDR which isn't bad when
it comes to the other pixel phones I know the six and six a both get to 495
and the pixel 7 surprise only gets to 475 and this pixel 7 Pro gets quite a
bit higher at 595 nits and these might
just be numbers to the average person that it's watching this but just know
that you want a higher number so when you go outside you can still see it in
daylight and this will probably be fine
but not fantastic all right let's go into cameras that's where Google usually
shines I'm a big fan of ultrawods I find I use them more than telephotos though
obviously having both is great and having that limited to the pro series I
guess makes sense they want your money and obviously if they can charge you and
I'm gonna like for an extra camera they're gonna these are pretty decent stats the main camera can shoot up to 4K
60 in the ultra wide 4K 30 which is plenty if you are somebody who is
shooting in 4k for some reason all right here's a main camera photo oh
interesting when you take a photo right off the bat it has a share option that
pops up off the gallery now let's try a zoom this would just be a digital Zoom
as obviously this does not have an optical lens and an ultra wide dang
that's wide it does 125 degrees for the ultra wide which is more than the human
eye let me tell you I gotta say this ultramide looks pretty darn sharp when
you zoom really far in you can see it's like getting Elizabeth painting like but
uh for everything that's kind of the near vicinity to you or just when it's
zoomed out and there's nothing too too crazy for lens Distortion which is where
the edges will look kind of weird compared to the rest of the photo onto
the 2x looks pretty good your yard just digitally zooming into the main sensor
but with 64 megapixels it does give you quite a bit of room to still get detail
in the photos and for the main shot it
looks good we can zoom right into sven's weird face
see all the detail in there and his tattoos into David's shirt the colors
all seem really consistent and the brightness again looks really good
across the whole scene especially because where I'm sitting is very well
lit but everything around the set is not so being able to see everything clearly and the lighting seems pretty consistent
is great for someone with a bit more color to give you an idea about color
accuracy we'll take a photo of this kind of set here and yeah this looks very
true to life everything looks pretty consistent with the green of the plant the blue from the ShortCircuit lights
and the white kind of warm white from
the lamp let's try video all right this is 4K 30. I'm moving around to see kind
of how it looks definitely looks pretty smooth
I don't know if it has ois as unfortunately it's not in any spec sheet but it does look pretty darn smooth I
would not be surprised if it did it doesn't have any of that kind of blurriness but it does look a little bit
punched in uh I'll compare it to the regular camera here and see if we can
tell yeah compared to the main camera it definitely is using Eis as it crops the
Imaging quite a bit but I gotta say this sounds really good my voice is really
clear uh it didn't have like the hum of the room as well it seems to be able to
kind of cut that out or at least didn't pick it up for whatever reason and it
looks great as well of course 4K it looks sharp and the Eis looks really
good as well a lot of times when you're shaking on Eis it kind of has that ghosting as it tries to just digitally
compensate for what's going on so that you know everything still stays smooth
button this looks really good if you're going to be taking videos with your
phone for Vlogs or anything like that this is at least a very good start for
then adding your own equipment let's try the selfie camera though it's interesting it has a zoom function I'm
not sure when you would want to be just a little bit closer but you do have the
option of choosing that yeah these swords look fine it's a 13 megapixel
shooter that does 4K 30 we'll test in a second here it still looks sharp with
the detail in my beard and hair as well as you know just pores and of course
Northern Lights t-shirt now available on ltzstore.com I wouldn't say it looks
over processed the colors look pretty solid especially again with the pretty
complex background with the TV and ShortCircuit sign like an iPhone if you hold
down your photos you get a nice motion photo so you can always remember the memories of taking that selfie at the
pier down in San Francisco that was a great day I'm now taking a video again
something to note with Eis it does crop in more so you do have the option of
using the 1.4 time zoom but then it feels pretty darn close but I do like
the smooth zoom in and out it kind of gives you a bit of
dramaticism dramaticism
but hey that's pretty neat I gotta say I'm not really impressed with the selfie
video quality it looks a little
grainy again I'm very well lit right now
and of course I'm not outside where it's extremely consistently lit but my shirt
you can see a lot of noise it looks pretty soft and at 13 megapixels when it
can do 4K 30 I don't feel like it really should look like this and as for the my
quality it's yeah it's fine one thing I do wish so after listening to this is
that the speaker got a little bit louder or that the mic recorded louder I don't
know what the issue is is crap right seemed to get quite loud as this does
not seem to be very loud
like that's max volume this is me speaking without speech enhancement do I
sound better or worse only you can tell
and me in a second I can't tell a difference so maybe if you're outside
where it's super windy uh maybe it'll be a bigger difference here it's obviously
a bit quiet and in both videos I could hear the hum of the Transformer that's
behind the camera so I don't know again your mileage may vary
it's time to game as for gaming we send this over to Labs to get some testing
done and the results were surprising though it has the same tensorship that
the 7 and 7 Pro do there was also actually varied quite a bit sometimes it
performed worse than the Seven and Seven Pro and sometimes it performed better
which is odd and gentian impact the medium frame rate on the 7n7 pro was 61
or 62 FPS respectively and on the 7A was
only 48. but what's even weirder is that in unhappy raccoon it actually performed
even better on the 6A with it getting 62 FPS so your mileage may vary based on
the games that you're playing but no matter what you should get some solid performance in most the games you're
playing speaking of Labs testing we also had them test out the battery life first
up Labs did a longevity test which is putting the phone in its kind of best
case scenario so it's video streaming off YouTube low brightness giving it the
best odds for maximum battery life the most you should really expect from this
phone and the results were really good the pixel 7A was able to get 21 hours of
continuous playback which is pretty darn good the pixel 6 say for example got 20
hours which is again great the pixel 7 got 16 and a half and the pixel 7 Pro
only got 14 and a quarter hours and it makes sense but the pixel 7 Pro being so
large and high resolution then after that we did the stress test which is the
minimum amount of battery you can expect that's maximum GPU and CPU usage maximum
brightness everything like that under Max load the 7A was able to get 3.3
hours the pixel 6A did also quite well with 3.2 hours pixel 7 got 2.7 hours
which is not enough probably for your flight or bus ride like the bus still
take the Greyhound I don't know and the pixel 7 Pro got 3.2 so again it's
interesting to see the difference between the 7 and 7 Pro or even the 7A
and 6A as they were all very very similar but pretty darn good I feel like
if you're going that hard with your phone that you are maxing out the CPU
and GPU and using Max brightness you probably have it plugged in so in those
French scenarios we want to play something intense on the bus or playing or whatever you should be fine so how
much does this cost a phone that has a lot in common with its Flagship counterparts with just a couple edges
cut off here and there well it's at up 500 price point which isn't too bad
though if you do want the millimeter wave 5G it does cost 50 more at 550.
with this being 500 and the pixel 7 being 600 I would take this any day and
pocket that hundred dollars and put it towards I don't know
a dbrand case LGT store merge like this
with better battery life and better performance in some games it seems like
there's no real reason to get the seven which makes me wonder why Google has
this really schedule at all and maybe they should more consider this a t
upgrade like OnePlus does instead of the budget alternative or I guess maybe we
should just appreciate that if you're willing to wait six months you could probably get a better phone than the one
they released six months ago which I guess makes sense I don't know but what
do you think does it seem like a worthwhile upgrade for those on the seven have you been waiting for the new
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