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the iphone 10r has been topping sales charge ever since its launch last fall

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which makes perfect sense it still has most of

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the things you love about a flagship iphone built in but for 250 cheaper who

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wouldn't buy an iphone 10r Android fans

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but we love the idea which is why it's so

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cool that google just announced the mid-range pixel 3a and the 3a xl with a

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killer value proposition same great camera an OLED screen apple and a

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freaking headphone jack maybe the only bad news here is for google because if

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this is as good as it sounds there might not be much reason to buy the flagship

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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

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pixel device and i'm a pixel 3 user myself it has the same two-tone finish

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available in just black clearly white and a new color purplish

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the same titan m security chip and all the pixel only features like summoning

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google assistant with a squeeze storing unlimited pictures and videos at high

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quality in google photos and filtering calls with google's new call screen

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feature with call screen your google assistant will help you screen your

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calls so you know who's calling and why look it's a prince he wants to make me

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super rich but if we're comparing it to the more expensive flagship pixel 3

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devices just about everything else about this phone is kind of uh

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same same but different the phones are close to the same size and weight as

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their flagship counterparts but they feel different and that's because the

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body is polycarbonate plastic instead of aluminum and glass

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they still have stereo speakers but one

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of them fires downward instead of both of them being front firing and while

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they have OLED always on displays which is a huge bonus that i wasn't expecting

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since even apple's budget 10r uses an

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lcd these use dragon trail glass from a japanese company instead of gorilla

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glass 5 from corning from what we know it's just as scratch resistant but not

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as resistant to drops but we have to assume that the dragon trail glass is

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one of google's cost-saving measures for this mid-range device one area that

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google did not cut costs on was the resolution and pixel density of the

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displays which is fantastic at least on the smaller pixel 3 and pixel 3a

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unfortunately we did not get similar parity on the xl devices where the 3a

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xl's pixel density is quite a bit lower the thing though is that some users

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might not even notice the difference because the 3a xl's pixel density is

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still higher than that of the iphone 10r a device that's explicitly branded as

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retina spec wise the 3a devices have 4 gigabytes of RAM and base storage

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capacity of 64 gigabytes just like the flagships however there are no 128 gig

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variants of the 3a same same but different and under the

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hood the pattern continues the soc has been downgraded from the snapdragon 845

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used on the flagships to a snapdragon 670 but as different as those two sound

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the two actually have a lot in common both are manufactured on the same 10

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nanometer process and both have eight cairo 360 cores with some performance

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cores clocked at 2 gigahertz and some efficiency cores clocked at 1.7 the big

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difference is that the pixel 3 has a 50 50 split between efficiency and

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performance cores while the 3a gets 6 efficiency cores and only 2 performance

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ones its integrated GPU is an adreno 615

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with half the graphics memory but it was still able to convince pubg to choose

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high settings by default and round the game really smoothly in our tests but i

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don't think that most people buy pixels for the gaming experience they buy them

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for the os which is the same great google customized clean Android pie

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experience on the new models and for the camera

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and it looks like that's not changing anytime soon you're gonna get all the

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great pixel camera features like night sight super resume and even a new time

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lapse feature and for the most part the experience is gonna be pretty darn close

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the pixel 3a has nearly the same rear camera as the

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flagship models so the 12.2 megapixel

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dual pixel sony imx 363 sensor is back

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but and this is actually contrary to the leaks that came up before launch is that

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the 3a does not use the pixel visual core which is a google designed image

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processor that's separate from the CPU this is something that i thought was

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really going to differentiate this phone and give google an advantage because

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they can downgrade the phone's CPU to a mid-tier one and still have this awesome

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silicon that's specialized in helping the camera outperform the competition

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but it's not here so

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i guess buy the good pixel if you want that if

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you're a selfie fiend though you might be bummed out about the front camera

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while the flagships have both wide angles and telephoto cameras for selfies

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the 3a has a single camera that kind of splits the difference spec wise as for

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video all pixel devices so far are limited to 4k 30 on the rear and 1080 30

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on the front whereas the iphone 10r can do 60fps at either of those resolutions

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and the 10r clearly pulled ahead when we ran our quick video stabilization

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challenge it kept the footage smooth but without making it unnatural whereas the

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pixels introduced some jitter and our huawei p30 pro looked like it was

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mounted on the hood of a car on a gravel road

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not good enough so should you buy this phone well i can't believe it took me

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this long to mention it but it's kind of a big selling point both the pixel 3a

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and the 3axl are notchless phones they

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both have headphone jacks and thanks to their reduction in performance course

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along with actually bigger batteries than the flagship pixel 3s they should

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get you better battery life too all of that with a very capable camera and for

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400 less than the flagship to me they

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both look like some of the strongest mid-range options since the nexus 5x and

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that is some grade a goodness

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