WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.880 I've never been a big phone guy. You know, I text, I call, I browse Reddit, I 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:09.440 watch the occasional YouTube video, and so I guess that's why they chose me to 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:14.800 unbox the Pixel 10A because I've got a 7A. I 00:00:12.360 --> 00:00:18.040 don't upgrade and I don't buy expensive phones. Um I just don't think you have 00:00:16.920 --> 00:00:21.800 to. I think they're kind of a waste of money, personally. Sorry to everyone I'm 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:26.520 going to hurt with that comment who paid $2,000 for a Fold or uh even just like 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:32.200 $1,000 for an iPhone. Or I think even the Pixel 10 regular is like $899. 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:35.880 I don't get it, personally. But also, I don't do a lot of work on my phone. So, 00:00:33.800 --> 00:00:42.640 just to be clear for anyone who's a little upset, this is purely for 00:00:40.120 --> 00:00:45.240 utilitarian stuff and for keeping myself a little bit entertained. Uh but what do 00:00:44.080 --> 00:00:50.040 we get in the box? Well, it opened pretty easily, actually. I didn't expect to go through that so quickly while 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:56.960 talking to you, but otherwise we got our phone. We get a little SIM card tool as well as 00:00:54.920 --> 00:01:00.240 this is probably like a warranty thing or a quick start guide. Yep, there we 00:00:59.120 --> 00:01:05.680 go. We've also got a nice USB-C to C cable. 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:10.600 It's nicely packaged. I like how coiled up it is. You know, I'm I'm okay with 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:15.240 not getting bricks in device packages anymore. It definitely sucks if you're 00:01:13.320 --> 00:01:18.320 buying your very first device or whatever, but um 00:01:16.800 --> 00:01:21.680 I feel like they're kind of a waste now and most of you out there you probably 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:27.840 just have one from your previous device, like a laptop or something. Uh otherwise, 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:31.920 my packaging ripped ever so slightly. Uh I think they've updated it since the 7A. 00:01:30.320 --> 00:01:36.960 It's been a while, um but I don't remember getting it in this like cool uh 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:39.880 like parchment paper kind of um enclosure, but I actually really like 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:47.160 it. It seems to, you know, protect everything nicely. And then, that's it. And you know, when 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:49.880 you're only paying like $499, I think 00:01:47.160 --> 00:01:52.720 that's totally okay. As for the length of our cable, it is pretty short. It's 00:01:51.520 --> 00:01:57.400 about 40 in, so not very long. If you do want to buy 00:01:55.960 --> 00:02:01.440 another cable, hey, we sell them. lttstore.com get a true spec cable Uh um 00:01:59.920 --> 00:02:05.600 because I don't even know what this is rated for. Probably not a whole lot, but 00:02:03.800 --> 00:02:09.679 you know, it's good enough. As for our phone, it comes in four different 00:02:07.160 --> 00:02:13.160 colors. This is the berry color, which I kind of like. I'm not a big red guy. I 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:18.320 actually prefer like blues and greens, but like this is actually a very nice 00:02:15.440 --> 00:02:21.959 kind of orangey red almost or like a pink and yeah, it feels pretty good in 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:26.200 the hand. Actually, what I want to do is take my old phone out of the case and 00:02:24.480 --> 00:02:31.240 compare them side by side. It's about the same size, but we have significantly 00:02:28.920 --> 00:02:34.000 more rounded corners. And so yeah, that actually would probably feel a lot 00:02:32.600 --> 00:02:37.200 better in the hand. Yeah, it's already way less pressure just on like, you 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:41.000 know, whatever your palm or thumb or something while you're scrolling through 00:02:38.880 --> 00:02:45.320 stuff. So that actually is a welcome change. And the other great upgrade over 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:50.080 the 7A as well as the 9A and I think even the 10 is this looks taller, 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:56.360 doesn't it? That's because this is a massive camera bump. This doesn't. And 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:58.080 I'm actually really impressed. And it's 00:02:56.360 --> 00:03:01.480 one of the few reasons why I would even consider upgrading my phone at this 00:02:59.959 --> 00:03:04.920 point cuz this thing is still fine. It's not that old. The battery is okay. The 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:09.480 pictures are good enough. So this is the normal 10, not the 10A, but like look at 00:03:07.320 --> 00:03:14.680 the massive camera bump on this thing. It is better. This one does have a 00:03:12.519 --> 00:03:19.000 telephoto lens on it that the doesn't. So if you are considering a new 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:23.320 device, I think that personally most new cameras on new phones are like more than 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:27.160 good enough for the vast majority of you people out there taking photos of 00:03:24.720 --> 00:03:30.239 yourselves or your kids or your lunch or whatever, but if you're a little more 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:35.280 serious, you might want the telephoto, but I mean man, look at the bulge you're 00:03:32.640 --> 00:03:41.480 getting with that. Is it worth it? Not to me. Even the 9A, which is way 00:03:37.880 --> 00:03:43.720 less prominent than the 10, it still has 00:03:41.480 --> 00:03:48.080 a minor camera bump. And so when you're sliding your hand across it, it just 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:52.000 doesn't feel good. Whereas like this, yeah, this will slide right in and out 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:54.760 of my pant pockets like no problem. Um, I don't like using cases if I can avoid 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:59.360 it, uh, but you know, because of the camera 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:04.240 bump, that's actually a big part of why I have this Dbrand case is because I 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:09.800 want the sleekest, most comfortable, small device to fit into my pants pocket 00:04:07.520 --> 00:04:14.560 as I can possibly find. I would love it if phones actually got smaller because I 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:18.000 kind of miss the days of like really tiny flip phones, but that's not the 00:04:16.200 --> 00:04:23.160 case. These are about the same size diagonally and that's fine. This is kind 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:25.840 of the normal phone size that I'm okay with at this point. I just wish things 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:29.720 were a little shorter. You might notice there's some major cracks on this one. 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:32.760 That's Linus' fault. He took the 9A home and dropped it. Maybe don't drop your 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:36.480 phones, put screen protectors on, put cases on. One of the big advantages of 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:41.280 the 10A over the 9A as well is it's got some new glass, some new Corning Gorilla 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:46.600 Glass 7i. It's better than the old stuff. Otherwise, they look damn near 00:04:45.080 --> 00:04:50.919 identical. We've got the same buttons and volume 00:04:49.080 --> 00:04:57.760 rockers here. Same USB ports, although the 9A has your 00:04:55.560 --> 00:05:01.320 SIM card on the bottom and the 10A has put it to the 00:04:59.520 --> 00:05:06.520 traditional side. As for some of the major differences between the 10 and the 00:05:03.919 --> 00:05:10.080 10A, basically what you're getting when you're saving all of that money, and it 00:05:08.320 --> 00:05:14.280 is hundreds of dollars, it's like almost half the price for this phone versus 00:05:11.440 --> 00:05:19.000 this one, you're getting less RAM. This has only 8 gigs instead of 12, which, 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:22.760 yeah, 100% if you're computer gaming, like you want more like 16 these days at 00:05:20.800 --> 00:05:26.520 minimum, but on a phone that I'm just going to, you know, browse Reddit and 00:05:24.640 --> 00:05:29.880 watch some YouTube videos on, 8 gigs is plenty in my opinion. The other major 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:36.360 difference that you might actually care about is the 10 has the Tensor G5 from 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:40.720 Google, whereas this has the Tensor G4. With that said, are you going to 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:44.000 actually notice that much of a performance difference? Maybe power 00:05:42.400 --> 00:05:48.200 users, but the average person who this is actually marketed to, I don't think 00:05:45.960 --> 00:05:52.640 so. And while the glass is different, they both support a 120 hertz screen. 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:56.480 That's my only real complaint about my 7A versus these is that this one's only 00:05:54.520 --> 00:06:00.840 90 hertz, I think, refresh rate on the screen. It's not 120, but it's not 60. 00:05:59.280 --> 00:06:04.240 So, I'll take it. Another pretty cool feature is this will actually be able to 00:06:02.960 --> 00:06:07.600 tell you the battery health of your device. We went to check my 7A cuz, you 00:06:06.400 --> 00:06:13.880 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 00:06:12.320 --> 00:06:17.600 the boat. But, that's okay cuz this is a brand new phone and it's got a pretty 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:21.000 solid battery. We measured something like 23 and a quarter hours in our 00:06:19.400 --> 00:06:24.800 longevity battery test, which is actually really good. And so, I don't 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:28.760 think you're going to have any issues. Man, I got to say the 120 hertz, I do 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:33.480 notice it like right away. This is just so clean. So smooth. Oh man, okay. All 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:37.840 right, maybe it's time for me to upgrade. I love a good display. And this 00:06:35.960 --> 00:06:43.240 actually has a crazy good display. We measured over 4,000 nits peak in SDR and 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:46.440 just under that in HDR, about 3,800 nits. So, it gets brighter than most of 00:06:45.400 --> 00:06:53.400 the content you're ever going to be watching on it in the first place, which is fantastic. Yeah, God, this really is 00:06:50.919 --> 00:06:58.000 a very pretty display and that is kind of killing me. Just scrolling through at 00:06:55.280 --> 00:07:01.680 120 hertz, it looks so much smoother. Even the 90, man. I don't need a new 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:05.840 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. 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:09.320 The reality is like I don't even take a ton of pictures. But, for example, 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:13.320 Wade's here from DankPods. So, I wanted to get a picture of us, right? Cuz, you 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:17.800 know, that's what people do. And yeah, my camera was good enough, but maybe I 00:07:15.840 --> 00:07:23.240 could get better. Motion Whoa, okay. So, before you start, you get a bunch of cool new camera stuff. Motion photo, top 00:07:20.919 --> 00:07:26.440 shot, auto best take. This already looks better than my camera though. Not like a 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:32.320 ton. Not a ton. So, what we'll do is I'll try to take the same pictures from 00:07:28.880 --> 00:07:35.200 my 7A, the 10, and the 10A. And then you 00:07:32.320 --> 00:07:39.960 guys can decide what you think is best. That's Brad. All right. And click. 00:07:38.200 --> 00:07:42.880 Okay, that's one. That's two. 00:07:41.320 --> 00:07:47.720 Click. Okay, I think the winner is definitely 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:53.960 the 10, but the 10A is right behind. Yeah, even the skin tones just look a 00:07:49.880 --> 00:07:55.480 little bit more natural on the 10. But, 00:07:53.960 --> 00:07:59.560 I think they're both great, honestly. And the reality is they're both clearly 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:02.720 better than my 7A. I don't know if that's just a screen brightness thing or 00:08:01.080 --> 00:08:07.560 what, but like yeah, this looks okay. It's just dim. It looks crisper, like 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:11.000 way crisper on the 10A. And I wonder if it's just like a sensor thing or what, 00:08:09.320 --> 00:08:14.800 but yeah. Whether it's the better camera or the better screen, I'm already I'm 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:19.200 kind of sold. If you really do care about photography, sure, get the 10 00:08:16.919 --> 00:08:23.360 instead. But like, is it worth an extra $400? I don't know. I don't think I I 00:08:21.840 --> 00:08:28.080 don't I personally don't really think so. Another really cool feature that uh 00:08:26.240 --> 00:08:32.200 older phone owners like me might not have access to is the add me feature in 00:08:30.640 --> 00:08:36.840 Gemini. Uh it's pretty cool. You just set your phone somewhere, you take a picture, you leave, someone else comes 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:40.120 in, and you can like splice them together. So, we'll try that in a second 00:08:38.400 --> 00:08:44.000 after this word from our sponsor. 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So, I'm on add me. 00:10:01.800 --> 00:10:06.800 Click. Okay, hand off the Pixel and join the scene. 00:10:09.160 --> 00:10:15.360 That kind of worked. >> That's pretty good, actually. >> that kind of, you know, it's not 00:10:13.520 --> 00:10:18.400 perfect, but it even put me like in front of your arm and stuff. Like it 00:10:16.920 --> 00:10:24.000 didn't, you know, screw that up at all. Like obviously you're major hover handing me, but like 00:10:21.640 --> 00:10:26.800 whatever. Um yeah, that's you know, that's a pretty cool feature. I don't 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:29.760 think I'd ever use it personally, like on my own phone, cuz like I just I don't 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:33.400 know, I'm lazy and I just want to take a quick photo, but uh it's a very cool 00:10:31.400 --> 00:10:36.320 feature to have, especially if you want multiple people in frame and you just 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:46.000 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 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:47.760 the 10A, because I do listen to a lot of 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:50.720 YouTube videos when I'm just puttering around the house or whatever, doing some 00:10:49.400 --> 00:10:55.040 cleaning, you know, I've got YouTube Premium, so I just shut the screen off 00:10:52.400 --> 00:10:58.360 and I let the audio play. And this is sometimes a little too quiet. It 00:10:57.160 --> 00:11:01.280 depends on the video's audio mixing, obviously, but uh every now and then I 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:06.240 wish it could just get a little bit louder. 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:06.240 So, that's max volume. 00:11:08.440 --> 00:11:15.280 Okay. I'm not going to wait for the bass. We all know 00:11:11.880 --> 00:11:15.280 there's no bass coming. 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:19.680 Yeah. 00:11:21.880 --> 00:11:26.839 You know, it's kind of funny. This one is bassier. I think I actually prefer 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:30.240 the old ones. I don't know if it's just the EQ or what's going on. 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:37.280 This sounds too bassy, and it sounds a little muddy because of that, whereas 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:42.440 this sounds kind of clear. Let me just check like like spoken word really 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:44.560 quick. Apple just came flying in out of 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:49.080 left field with the people's elbow dropping their giant buying power. That 00:11:47.520 --> 00:11:52.640 might have just been the song cuz this sounds pretty good still. I don't know. 00:11:50.520 --> 00:11:55.880 I think either way I'm splitting hairs here and like the speakers are more than 00:11:54.440 --> 00:12:00.160 good enough on either device. The reality is most of you are probably going to be listening with earbuds or 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:03.680 headphones anyway. Or at least I hope you are. Please if you're in public, on 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:07.240 the bus, on the plane, on the train, please please please please stop playing 00:12:05.520 --> 00:12:11.200 stuff over the speaker. I will go insane one day and that will be why. Yeah, 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:14.680 otherwise it's like holding them both in the hand. I know I'm comparing like an 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:18.840 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 00:12:17.160 --> 00:12:23.880 you bought a 9A you're probably not looking to upgrade to a 10A. So anyone 00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:27.360 with like a 7A or older like I I got to say I wasn't expecting to like it this 00:12:25.440 --> 00:12:31.600 much and care this much about the display and the hand feel. Like I hate 00:12:30.400 --> 00:12:35.839 that there's this camera bump here. I can feel it on my finger just holding 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:41.360 the phones together. Another major upgrade both over my 7A and the 9A is 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:45.839 satellite connectivity. I went home to Yellowknife recently and there's a road 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:49.440 that literally goes to like the end of Canada basically. And if you're on the 00:12:47.839 --> 00:12:53.640 Ingram Trail, certain parts of it don't have cell service and you're going to 00:12:51.280 --> 00:12:57.480 need some kind of like satellite phone if you're going to get yourself stuck 00:12:56.040 --> 00:13:01.240 somewhere. And so yeah, that's actually a big deal and it could genuinely save 00:12:59.640 --> 00:13:05.600 your life at some point. So camera's good, the screen is pretty good, the 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:09.000 speakers are totally fine. The only reason why you might want to shell out 00:13:07.560 --> 00:13:13.920 more for this guy aside from the telephoto lens is probably the improved 00:13:11.880 --> 00:13:19.000 processing power because it's genuinely pretty strong. In our Geekbench 6 CPU 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:25.160 single core test we're getting over 2300 points on the 10, whereas we're only 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:27.040 getting about 1700, 1750 on the 10A. So 00:13:25.160 --> 00:13:31.520 it's a significant difference. And then when we go to multi-core, we're getting 00:13:28.560 --> 00:13:36.320 over 6,000 points on the 10 versus only about 4,500 on the 10a. Which, you know, 00:13:34.560 --> 00:13:39.600 they're synthetic benchmarks and like, yeah, I don't game on my phone. I don't 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:44.840 care that much. The funny thing is, when we use 3DMark Steel Nomad Light Test, we 00:13:41.920 --> 00:13:48.240 actually get a better score on the 10a than we do on the 10. It's not a major 00:13:46.640 --> 00:13:52.800 difference, but it's there. So, I kind of think that a lot of people just fall 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:56.760 for the like newer is better, flashier marketing traps that um marketing tries 00:13:55.360 --> 00:14:00.160 to use to get you to buy their new product. And I just I've never been the 00:13:58.400 --> 00:14:04.040 kind of person who upgrades their phone every single year. Cuz as you can see 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:06.720 with the 10a versus the 9a, there's not a lot of differences. Like, sure, you 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:10.720 get the better glass. And sure, the camera bump is less than on this guy, 00:14:08.880 --> 00:14:14.880 but this one's already pretty minimal. It really is. And personally, um I have 00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:19.320 an actual camera if I want to take photos. So, I don't really care about 00:14:16.920 --> 00:14:23.000 the telephoto lens, and I would 100% ditch this camera bump if it means I 00:14:21.280 --> 00:14:27.200 don't get it. Like, I'm totally down. Absolutely. Like, this is solid. This 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:31.360 with no bump at all? Yeah. How does it feel to slide into the pocket? Oh, it's 00:14:29.880 --> 00:14:34.400 so good. It just goes in. It doesn't get stuck on anything. And then now it's 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:37.960 slimmer because I don't have a case on it. 00:14:36.160 --> 00:14:44.200 Am I buying a new phone this weekend? I don't know. Maybe. It's good enough. And 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:44.200 at $499 for the 256, 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:51.080 it's a pretty decent deal. You know, if you've been wondering, yeah, do I need 00:14:49.240 --> 00:14:54.040 all of this phone? Maybe you don't. Maybe get yourself a Pixel 10a. And if 00:14:52.839 --> 00:14:57.880 you don't like it, you can probably return it. I'm Fluf this ShortCircuit. 00:14:56.000 --> 00:15:01.600 This is the Pixel 10a. I think it's pretty solid for the price. If you want 00:14:59.520 --> 00:15:08.320 to look at an even cheaper budget phone, check out the Samsung 17a 5G. 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:10.960 That's like 300 bucks. That's a great deal. 00:15:12.560 --> 00:15:15.040 See you later.