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watch the occasional YouTube video, and so I guess that's why they chose me to

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unbox the Pixel 10A because I've got a 7A. I

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don't upgrade and I don't buy expensive phones. Um I just don't think you have

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to. I think they're kind of a waste of money, personally. Sorry to everyone I'm

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going to hurt with that comment who paid $2,000 for a Fold or uh even just like

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$1,000 for an iPhone. Or I think even the Pixel 10 regular is like $899.

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I don't get it, personally. But also, I don't do a lot of work on my phone. So,

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just to be clear for anyone who's a little upset, this is purely for

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utilitarian stuff and for keeping myself a little bit entertained. Uh but what do

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we get in the box? Well, it opened pretty easily, actually. I didn't expect to go through that so quickly while

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talking to you, but otherwise we got our phone. We get a little SIM card tool as well as

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this is probably like a warranty thing or a quick start guide. Yep, there we

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go. We've also got a nice USB-C to C cable.

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It's nicely packaged. I like how coiled up it is. You know, I'm I'm okay with

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not getting bricks in device packages anymore. It definitely sucks if you're

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buying your very first device or whatever, but um

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I feel like they're kind of a waste now and most of you out there you probably

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just have one from your previous device, like a laptop or something. Uh otherwise,

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my packaging ripped ever so slightly. Uh I think they've updated it since the 7A.

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It's been a while, um but I don't remember getting it in this like cool uh

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like parchment paper kind of um enclosure, but I actually really like

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it. It seems to, you know, protect everything nicely. And then, that's it. And you know, when

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you're only paying like $499, I think

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that's totally okay. As for the length of our cable, it is pretty short. It's

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about 40 in, so not very long. If you do want to buy

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another cable, hey, we sell them. lttstore.com get a true spec cable Uh um

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because I don't even know what this is rated for. Probably not a whole lot, but

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you know, it's good enough. As for our phone, it comes in four different

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colors. This is the berry color, which I kind of like. I'm not a big red guy. I

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actually prefer like blues and greens, but like this is actually a very nice

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kind of orangey red almost or like a pink and yeah, it feels pretty good in

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the hand. Actually, what I want to do is take my old phone out of the case and

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compare them side by side. It's about the same size, but we have significantly

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more rounded corners. And so yeah, that actually would probably feel a lot

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better in the hand. Yeah, it's already way less pressure just on like, you

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know, whatever your palm or thumb or something while you're scrolling through

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stuff. So that actually is a welcome change. And the other great upgrade over

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the 7A as well as the 9A and I think even the 10 is this looks taller,

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doesn't it? That's because this is a massive camera bump. This doesn't. And

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I'm actually really impressed. And it's

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one of the few reasons why I would even consider upgrading my phone at this

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point cuz this thing is still fine. It's not that old. The battery is okay. The

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pictures are good enough. So this is the normal 10, not the 10A, but like look at

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the massive camera bump on this thing. It is better. This one does have a

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telephoto lens on it that the doesn't. So if you are considering a new

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device, I think that personally most new cameras on new phones are like more than

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good enough for the vast majority of you people out there taking photos of

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yourselves or your kids or your lunch or whatever, but if you're a little more

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serious, you might want the telephoto, but I mean man, look at the bulge you're

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getting with that. Is it worth it? Not to me. Even the 9A, which is way

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less prominent than the 10, it still has

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a minor camera bump. And so when you're sliding your hand across it, it just

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doesn't feel good. Whereas like this, yeah, this will slide right in and out

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of my pant pockets like no problem. Um, I don't like using cases if I can avoid

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it, uh, but you know, because of the camera

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bump, that's actually a big part of why I have this Dbrand case is because I

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want the sleekest, most comfortable, small device to fit into my pants pocket

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as I can possibly find. I would love it if phones actually got smaller because I

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kind of miss the days of like really tiny flip phones, but that's not the

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case. These are about the same size diagonally and that's fine. This is kind

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of the normal phone size that I'm okay with at this point. I just wish things

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were a little shorter. You might notice there's some major cracks on this one.

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That's Linus' fault. He took the 9A home and dropped it. Maybe don't drop your

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phones, put screen protectors on, put cases on. One of the big advantages of

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the 10A over the 9A as well is it's got some new glass, some new Corning Gorilla

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Glass 7i. It's better than the old stuff. Otherwise, they look damn near

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identical. We've got the same buttons and volume

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rockers here. Same USB ports, although the 9A has your

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SIM card on the bottom and the 10A has put it to the

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traditional side. As for some of the major differences between the 10 and the

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10A, basically what you're getting when you're saving all of that money, and it

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is hundreds of dollars, it's like almost half the price for this phone versus

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this one, you're getting less RAM. This has only 8 gigs instead of 12, which,

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yeah, 100% if you're computer gaming, like you want more like 16 these days at

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minimum, but on a phone that I'm just going to, you know, browse Reddit and

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watch some YouTube videos on, 8 gigs is plenty in my opinion. The other major

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difference that you might actually care about is the 10 has the Tensor G5 from

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Google, whereas this has the Tensor G4. With that said, are you going to

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users, but the average person who this is actually marketed to, I don't think

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so. And while the glass is different, they both support a 120 hertz screen.

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That's my only real complaint about my 7A versus these is that this one's only

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90 hertz, I think, refresh rate on the screen. It's not 120, but it's not 60.

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So, I'll take it. Another pretty cool feature is this will actually be able to

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tell you the battery health of your device. We went to check my 7A cuz, you

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know, I've had it for a few years, maybe the battery's degraded. Doesn't support it. Pixel 8 and later. So, I just missed

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the boat. But, that's okay cuz this is a brand new phone and it's got a pretty

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solid battery. We measured something like 23 and a quarter hours in our

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longevity battery test, which is actually really good. And so, I don't

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think you're going to have any issues. Man, I got to say the 120 hertz, I do

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notice it like right away. This is just so clean. So smooth. Oh man, okay. All

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right, maybe it's time for me to upgrade. I love a good display. And this

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actually has a crazy good display. We measured over 4,000 nits peak in SDR and

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just under that in HDR, about 3,800 nits. So, it gets brighter than most of

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the content you're ever going to be watching on it in the first place, which is fantastic. Yeah, God, this really is

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a very pretty display and that is kind of killing me. Just scrolling through at

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120 hertz, it looks so much smoother. Even the 90, man. I don't need a new

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phone. I don't need a new phone. Okay, how's the camera though? That's cuz that's what like most people care about.

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The reality is like I don't even take a ton of pictures. But, for example,

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Wade's here from DankPods. So, I wanted to get a picture of us, right? Cuz, you

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know, that's what people do. And yeah, my camera was good enough, but maybe I

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could get better. Motion Whoa, okay. So, before you start, you get a bunch of cool new camera stuff. Motion photo, top

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shot, auto best take. This already looks better than my camera though. Not like a

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ton. Not a ton. So, what we'll do is I'll try to take the same pictures from

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my 7A, the 10, and the 10A. And then you

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guys can decide what you think is best. That's Brad. All right. And click.

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Okay, that's one. That's two.

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Click. Okay, I think the winner is definitely

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the 10, but the 10A is right behind. Yeah, even the skin tones just look a

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little bit more natural on the 10. But,

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I think they're both great, honestly. And the reality is they're both clearly

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better than my 7A. I don't know if that's just a screen brightness thing or

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what, but like yeah, this looks okay. It's just dim. It looks crisper, like

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way crisper on the 10A. And I wonder if it's just like a sensor thing or what,

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but yeah. Whether it's the better camera or the better screen, I'm already I'm

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kind of sold. If you really do care about photography, sure, get the 10

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instead. But like, is it worth an extra $400? I don't know. I don't think I I

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don't I personally don't really think so. Another really cool feature that uh

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older phone owners like me might not have access to is the add me feature in

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Gemini. Uh it's pretty cool. You just set your phone somewhere, you take a picture, you leave, someone else comes

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in, and you can like splice them together. So, we'll try that in a second

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after this word from our sponsor. Our sponsor, dbrand, sent over one of their

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idiot-proof screen protectors for the Pixel 10A, which you won't need because

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you're not an idiot, right? But, because I work here, they think I am. So, let's

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put their theory to the test. Ah, that's the case.

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That's the screen protector. Man, these look so cool. Like I haven't had to

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actually install one of the new ones. Includes squeegee, alcohol wipe, and a

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microfiber cloth. Let me clean it first. Give it a wipe.

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Is there a microfiber in here? Squeegee, alcohol wipe, and microfiber cloth.

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That's an alcohol wipe. Oh, here's the I'm stupid. I am an idiot. They really

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do know who they're messing with. Okay, you just attach the tray to the phone

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like so. Oh man, that really does make it idiot-proof, huh? Pull the tab.

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And then you swipe down the middle.

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Wait a bit. And you're done. I've got a couple air

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bubbles, but that's what the squeegee is for. Push those off to the side, and

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you're done. Wow, super easy. Who's the idiot now, dbrand? They also sent over

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one of their customizable grip cases, which you can slap any of dbrand's

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overpriced stickers onto for a custom look. We've got LTT's collab skin, dark

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circuit, which you should also buy if you want us to receive a royalty. Or, if

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you hate us, you can buy something else over at my bossesveryshort.com.

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Thanks, dbrand. you guys. So, I'm on add me.

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Click. Okay, hand off the Pixel and join the scene.

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That kind of worked. >> That's pretty good, actually. >> that kind of, you know, it's not

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perfect, but it even put me like in front of your arm and stuff. Like it

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didn't, you know, screw that up at all. Like obviously you're major hover handing me, but like

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whatever. Um yeah, that's you know, that's a pretty cool feature. I don't

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think I'd ever use it personally, like on my own phone, cuz like I just I don't

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know, I'm lazy and I just want to take a quick photo, but uh it's a very cool

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feature to have, especially if you want multiple people in frame and you just

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you don't have, you know, an easy way to do that. Let's do a little speaker comparison between uh my old phone and

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cleaning, you know, I've got YouTube Premium, so I just shut the screen off

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and I let the audio play. And this is sometimes a little too quiet. It

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depends on the video's audio mixing, obviously, but uh every now and then I

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wish it could just get a little bit louder.

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there's no bass coming.

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the old ones. I don't know if it's just the EQ or what's going on.

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this sounds kind of clear. Let me just check like like spoken word really

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quick. Apple just came flying in out of

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left field with the people's elbow dropping their giant buying power. That

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might have just been the song cuz this sounds pretty good still. I don't know.

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good enough on either device. The reality is most of you are probably going to be listening with earbuds or

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headphones anyway. Or at least I hope you are. Please if you're in public, on

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the bus, on the plane, on the train, please please please please stop playing

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stuff over the speaker. I will go insane one day and that will be why. Yeah,

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otherwise it's like holding them both in the hand. I know I'm comparing like an

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older device but I think the reality is that's kind of the people that are going to be shopping for this thing. Like if

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you bought a 9A you're probably not looking to upgrade to a 10A. So anyone

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much and care this much about the display and the hand feel. Like I hate

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that there's this camera bump here. I can feel it on my finger just holding

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satellite connectivity. I went home to Yellowknife recently and there's a road

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that literally goes to like the end of Canada basically. And if you're on the

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Ingram Trail, certain parts of it don't have cell service and you're going to

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need some kind of like satellite phone if you're going to get yourself stuck

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somewhere. And so yeah, that's actually a big deal and it could genuinely save

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your life at some point. So camera's good, the screen is pretty good, the

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speakers are totally fine. The only reason why you might want to shell out

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more for this guy aside from the telephoto lens is probably the improved

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processing power because it's genuinely pretty strong. In our Geekbench 6 CPU

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single core test we're getting over 2300 points on the 10, whereas we're only

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getting about 1700, 1750 on the 10A. So

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it's a significant difference. And then when we go to multi-core, we're getting

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over 6,000 points on the 10 versus only about 4,500 on the 10a. Which, you know,

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they're synthetic benchmarks and like, yeah, I don't game on my phone. I don't

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care that much. The funny thing is, when we use 3DMark Steel Nomad Light Test, we

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actually get a better score on the 10a than we do on the 10. It's not a major

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difference, but it's there. So, I kind of think that a lot of people just fall

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to use to get you to buy their new product. And I just I've never been the

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kind of person who upgrades their phone every single year. Cuz as you can see

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with the 10a versus the 9a, there's not a lot of differences. Like, sure, you

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get the better glass. And sure, the camera bump is less than on this guy,

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but this one's already pretty minimal. It really is. And personally, um I have

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an actual camera if I want to take photos. So, I don't really care about

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the telephoto lens, and I would 100% ditch this camera bump if it means I

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don't get it. Like, I'm totally down. Absolutely. Like, this is solid. This

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with no bump at all? Yeah. How does it feel to slide into the pocket? Oh, it's

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so good. It just goes in. It doesn't get stuck on anything. And then now it's

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slimmer because I don't have a case on it.

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Am I buying a new phone this weekend? I don't know. Maybe. It's good enough. And

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at $499 for the 256,

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it's a pretty decent deal. You know, if you've been wondering, yeah, do I need

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all of this phone? Maybe you don't. Maybe get yourself a Pixel 10a. And if

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you don't like it, you can probably return it. I'm Fluf this ShortCircuit.

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This is the Pixel 10a. I think it's pretty solid for the price. If you want

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to look at an even cheaper budget phone, check out the Samsung 17a 5G.

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That's like 300 bucks. That's a great deal.

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See you later.