pixel pixel pixel google pixels they
think they're so pixel perfect but though it's the pure Android experience
but guess what i got something to tell you pixels have been far from perfect
these past couple years all right the 3a was nice the 4a
is okay 5a great five a with 5g pretty
good six comes out i don't know i feel about this is a
tensor cool that's got it's cool that they got their new chip but
really what's happening here is we see potentially the downfall of the pixel a
series the pixel 6a as i as i implied there i've been a big fan of pixels i
have a pixel 3 i'm still rocking it this was a great phone until it started dying
so i was really excited that you know the pixel there was going to be an a
series version of the six uh version of the pixels
and here we are to find out whether it's good or not
get out of here i have two phones look at that do you know what color this is
called Colton we got oh
wait sage
hold on sage and
probably some variation of white i'm going to guess chalk
the pixel 6a comes in sage
chalk and charcoal colorways thank you
voice room over there want me to take the stage you're doing safe i'm doing
sage see you even though even though i think that the color of your phone does
not matter because you should just put a case on it anyways or a skin
so this is a 6.1 inch display
the thing about the 6a series is that you know they promise to kind of like
bring it back to the sort of one handable design
not too bad of a hand feel once you put a case on there that's going to be
annoying i think for me very nice uh feel in the hand the
weight's good on the back we got this glass situation which is interesting
because this phone does not have wireless charging which is unfortunately
yeah that's one of the features that they said they had to cut to get down
the price from 599 for the pixel 6 to
449 for the pixel 6a
um and there's a a few features like that that they cut down but we'll get to
that first the exterior of the phone on the right
side we've got the power button and the volume rocker on the bottom we got type
c connector and down facing speakers
um yes okay so on the pixel on the six pro they also have the technically
downward facing speakers and then the earpiece counts as the
other speaker so okay that's what they're they're calling that front-facing speakers
fine on this side we got the sim card slot on the top we just got a mic
and on the back we have that camera strip that made its debut in the pixel 6
and 6 pro originally this camera bar looks significantly
flatter right yeah that's quite a bit flatter here look get
that shot the camera bump is significantly smaller and that's
partially because of the downgraded camera specs for the 6a they're going
back to the same camera that they were using in the previous pixels which is
kind of disappointing to see it's kind of been the deal with the a series that
you know the point of getting the a series is that you get mostly the good
stuff from the non-a pixel and it you
know they they take out some of the unnecessary stuff and they cut down the
price a little bit but for this one they kind of they significantly downgraded
like the main reason why a lot of people get pixel phones which is the camera
maybe everything's fine and we don't need to worry about anything ever
oh no this is better which is like
that makes sense
oh yeah okay so unsurprisingly the pixel 6 pro
speakers are better than the pixel 6a speakers
is that what you wanted they're both uh pretty good i gotta say so i was talking
in the beginning a little bit about how the pixels have been kind of
disappointing for me they have this promise of being the you know the one
true Android phone the the default stock Android experience that's like pure
without all the bloat and the bells and whistles that you don't need from the
fancy other things like samsung and motorola there's basically there's
samsung and then all the chinese manufacturers oppo xiaomi you know they
all have their extra things that they add and the pixel line is supposed to be
like this is the real thing there's been a number of things where they've just kind of been dropping the ball for one
the camera quality uh used to be kind of like pixels are the best Android cameras
you can get and now samsung has caught up a number of other phone manufacturers
also make really great phone cameras and one of the big things about the six
period series in particular is that they took away this amazing rear mounted
fingerprint reader that was on my pixel 3. i think the the 5a had it the 4a had
it i think they could still have it on the back i don't know why they didn't put it on the back i mean glass they
want the glass back i guess so they did the under screen fingerprint reader like
the other phone companies are doing but it was a bit slower i set up my
fingerprint on both the 6 pro and the 6a
let's see how she does so this is the 6 pro wow okay yeah that
is a little bit slow i'd say is this a little bit faster
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so as far as i'm aware there's not really any more uh
ui customizations that google has made for the pixel 6a i mean it's using the
pixel 6 launcher which is also used on the 6 and 6 pro but you know as an
avowed pixel aficionado i can say it's one of my favorites although
i am leaning more and more into thinking that like the fact that it's a stock
Android experience is actually maybe not good
maybe i want all of the cool features that samsung has like innovated and put
into their phones i mean they're keeping up with apple i want to talk about the
actual specs inside the 6a is supposed to have the same tensor chip that is
found in the 6 and 6 pro so you are
going to get you know those those cool new features like the magic eraser for
the photos and stuff that i looked at in my initial ShortCircuit for the 6 pro
which was actually really cool but since then samsung has added their own object
remover feature or whatever to their phones so
what is tensor getting us i don't know also only six gigs of RAM in this
compared to the eight gigs in the six non-pro you can get 128 gigs of storage
on the 6a no expansion options and when
it comes to displays i'm actually pretty surprised to see the downgrade here
because the 6 has a 90 hertz uh display
ammo led HDR 10 plus and in this one we
got 6.1 inch to the 6.4 and the other pixel
only 60 hertz OLED not amoled and it's
got gorilla glass 3 instead of victus it
also can only do 18 watts fast charging as opposed to 30 watts
fast charging on the 6. there's a lot of things missing but let's take a look at
the cameras to see whether you know i'm freaking out over nothing um okay
interesting so we have the wide camera here it says point six times
zoom to go to with the the wide which is weird i can zoom into the two times i'm
definitely seeing a lot of grain there the the 12 megapixel sensor is uh
is struggling am i gonna use the magic eraser again
okay there's a photo you know so as much as i talk about now i feel bad now i
feel bad because as much as i talk about you know how uh pixel cameras haven't
really kept up and uh you know they're not as as jaw-dropping as they used to
be it still takes great photos i mean don't get me wrong like the pixel you
know you're not gonna look at the photos and be like throw that in the garbage but at the
same time you know it's more that the rest of the industry has caught up i
think the colors are there the sharpness is pretty good i mean i can see that like
google's machine learning is doing its stuff i can definitely tell you i've
seen much worse processing and artifacts
on uh on photos from other phones when you zoom all the way in like this and
this is like pretty pretty decent for you know a 12.2 megapixel instead of
like the 50 megapixel that you see in a lot of other phones now selfie cam
okay all right i mean hey that's looking nice pixel okay fine pixel you still
take pretty good photos tools magic eraser oh that was close
because they've been doing this thing where they take away these like the the
more advanced tools unless you pay for google one and that's a whole thing i
want to get into that circle the plant
wait what did i not complete the circle do i have to like do this to the whole
thing oh there we go oh did you see that it
just like selected it was like yeah that whole squiggly hole did you just need to
like tap it okay let's take the whole shelf away
okay i mean honestly that that looks similar to the result i got last time oh
i didn't want it whoops okay sure whatever
okay magic eraser performance seems to be on par
using my extremely non-uh empirical test i just made up just now
the the 6a is the first a series phone from google to not have
a headphone jack it used to be one of the main reasons why you would consider
this is because you know not everyone had made the switch to the bluetooth
earbuds yet so there's no headphone jack they decided all right the the game is
up no more no more that i you know at 4 49 i just don't know because i've been
looking at that galaxy a53 and that's looking pretty nice that the 853 with 5g
just came out in march i think it also has ip67 so it's like okay you know not
quite there yet but it has a 5 000 milliamp hour battery compared to the
4400 milliamp hour battery in the 6a it's got gorilla glass 5 on the front
instead of gorilla glass 3 and it's got an sd card slot so you can add extra
storage if you want to oh and i didn't even see that its main camera is 64
megapixels instead of 12.2 megapixels and of course megapixels aren't
everything but samsung's camera software has been like i said keeping up with
with uh with the pixel so the pixel 6a still is an option for people who don't
want to spend the 5.99 for the full 6 or the 8.99 for the six pro and if you you
know if you're in that pixel family and you want to stay there the 6a is here
and it's you know it's not horrible i we have obviously haven't done like full
tests on it apparently the battery is okay it can last up to 72 hours with
extreme battery saver uh is what is what they claim but considering the state of
the market and what else is out there i'm not sure whether 449
is a you know compelling enough price just so you can say that you have a
pixel when the a535g exists and when a ton of other mid-range phones
with flagship specs the nothing phone just came out and it's 3.99 euros which
is right now is the same as on par with the usd so the nothing
phone is out and it's got killer like well i don't know but the price to
performance is there it's 50 cheaper it's at least got a cool back on it and
this one is what is a sage i don't know i'm just you know i'm just
i'm in this place where i need to buy a new phone my pixel 3 has the back
cameras messed up and they're not really fixing that under warranty anymore i
looked on i fix it they don't have the screen i could grab for it it's not
charging i'm looking for an upgrade and i'm looking at the 6a and i'm just kind
of like why would i go for you when i can get the a535g
that does a lot of the same things uh for the same price and more it has
better specs i don't know i just always get confused about what google is trying
to do with their pixel project they say that they
wanted it to be sort of like this gold standard for Android you know especially
you know especially given the news about pixel phones suffering from hardware uh
issues i don't know if i want to take the gamble on the 6a
whether it's sage or chalk you're gonna it's gonna crack it's go it's only
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