the iphone 10r has been topping sales charge ever since its launch last fall
which makes perfect sense it still has most of
the things you love about a flagship iphone built in but for 250 cheaper who
wouldn't buy an iphone 10r Android fans
but we love the idea which is why it's so
cool that google just announced the mid-range pixel 3a and the 3a xl with a
killer value proposition same great camera an OLED screen apple and a
freaking headphone jack maybe the only bad news here is for google because if
this is as good as it sounds there might not be much reason to buy the flagship
pixel anymore let's find out right after we find out about our
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the first thing i noticed about the 3a is how much it feels like a full-on
pixel device and i'm a pixel 3 user myself it has the same two-tone finish
available in just black clearly white and a new color purplish
the same titan m security chip and all the pixel only features like summoning
google assistant with a squeeze storing unlimited pictures and videos at high
quality in google photos and filtering calls with google's new call screen
feature with call screen your google assistant will help you screen your
calls so you know who's calling and why look it's a prince he wants to make me
super rich but if we're comparing it to the more expensive flagship pixel 3
devices just about everything else about this phone is kind of uh
same same but different the phones are close to the same size and weight as
their flagship counterparts but they feel different and that's because the
body is polycarbonate plastic instead of aluminum and glass
they still have stereo speakers but one
of them fires downward instead of both of them being front firing and while
they have OLED always on displays which is a huge bonus that i wasn't expecting
since even apple's budget 10r uses an
lcd these use dragon trail glass from a japanese company instead of gorilla
glass 5 from corning from what we know it's just as scratch resistant but not
as resistant to drops but we have to assume that the dragon trail glass is
one of google's cost-saving measures for this mid-range device one area that
google did not cut costs on was the resolution and pixel density of the
displays which is fantastic at least on the smaller pixel 3 and pixel 3a
unfortunately we did not get similar parity on the xl devices where the 3a
xl's pixel density is quite a bit lower the thing though is that some users
might not even notice the difference because the 3a xl's pixel density is
still higher than that of the iphone 10r a device that's explicitly branded as
retina spec wise the 3a devices have 4 gigabytes of RAM and base storage
capacity of 64 gigabytes just like the flagships however there are no 128 gig
variants of the 3a same same but different and under the
hood the pattern continues the soc has been downgraded from the snapdragon 845
used on the flagships to a snapdragon 670 but as different as those two sound
the two actually have a lot in common both are manufactured on the same 10
nanometer process and both have eight cairo 360 cores with some performance
cores clocked at 2 gigahertz and some efficiency cores clocked at 1.7 the big
difference is that the pixel 3 has a 50 50 split between efficiency and
performance cores while the 3a gets 6 efficiency cores and only 2 performance
ones its integrated GPU is an adreno 615
with half the graphics memory but it was still able to convince pubg to choose
high settings by default and round the game really smoothly in our tests but i
don't think that most people buy pixels for the gaming experience they buy them
for the os which is the same great google customized clean Android pie
experience on the new models and for the camera
and it looks like that's not changing anytime soon you're gonna get all the
great pixel camera features like night sight super resume and even a new time
lapse feature and for the most part the experience is gonna be pretty darn close
the pixel 3a has nearly the same rear camera as the
flagship models so the 12.2 megapixel
dual pixel sony imx 363 sensor is back
but and this is actually contrary to the leaks that came up before launch is that
the 3a does not use the pixel visual core which is a google designed image
processor that's separate from the CPU this is something that i thought was
really going to differentiate this phone and give google an advantage because
they can downgrade the phone's CPU to a mid-tier one and still have this awesome
silicon that's specialized in helping the camera outperform the competition
but it's not here so
i guess buy the good pixel if you want that if
you're a selfie fiend though you might be bummed out about the front camera
while the flagships have both wide angles and telephoto cameras for selfies
the 3a has a single camera that kind of splits the difference spec wise as for
video all pixel devices so far are limited to 4k 30 on the rear and 1080 30
on the front whereas the iphone 10r can do 60fps at either of those resolutions
and the 10r clearly pulled ahead when we ran our quick video stabilization
challenge it kept the footage smooth but without making it unnatural whereas the
pixels introduced some jitter and our huawei p30 pro looked like it was
mounted on the hood of a car on a gravel road
not good enough so should you buy this phone well i can't believe it took me
this long to mention it but it's kind of a big selling point both the pixel 3a
and the 3axl are notchless phones they
both have headphone jacks and thanks to their reduction in performance course
along with actually bigger batteries than the flagship pixel 3s they should
get you better battery life too all of that with a very capable camera and for
400 less than the flagship to me they
both look like some of the strongest mid-range options since the nexus 5x and
that is some grade a goodness
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