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pixel pixel pixel google pixels they

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think they're so pixel perfect but though it's the pure Android experience

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but guess what i got something to tell you pixels have been far from perfect

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these past couple years all right the 3a was nice the 4a

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is okay 5a great five a with 5g pretty

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good six comes out i don't know i feel about this is a

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tensor cool that's got it's cool that they got their new chip but

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really what's happening here is we see potentially the downfall of the pixel a

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series the pixel 6a as i as i implied there i've been a big fan of pixels i

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have a pixel 3 i'm still rocking it this was a great phone until it started dying

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so i was really excited that you know the pixel there was going to be an a

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series version of the six uh version of the pixels

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and here we are to find out whether it's good or not

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get out of here i have two phones look at that do you know what color this is

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called Colton we got oh

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wait sage

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hold on sage and

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probably some variation of white i'm going to guess chalk

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the pixel 6a comes in sage

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chalk and charcoal colorways thank you

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voice room over there want me to take the stage you're doing safe i'm doing

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sage see you even though even though i think that the color of your phone does

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not matter because you should just put a case on it anyways or a skin

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so this is a 6.1 inch display

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the thing about the 6a series is that you know they promise to kind of like

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bring it back to the sort of one handable design

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not too bad of a hand feel once you put a case on there that's going to be

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annoying i think for me very nice uh feel in the hand the

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weight's good on the back we got this glass situation which is interesting

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because this phone does not have wireless charging which is unfortunately

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yeah that's one of the features that they said they had to cut to get down

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the price from 599 for the pixel 6 to

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449 for the pixel 6a

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um and there's a a few features like that that they cut down but we'll get to

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that first the exterior of the phone on the right

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side we've got the power button and the volume rocker on the bottom we got type

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c connector and down facing speakers

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um yes okay so on the pixel on the six pro they also have the technically

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downward facing speakers and then the earpiece counts as the

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other speaker so okay that's what they're they're calling that front-facing speakers

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fine on this side we got the sim card slot on the top we just got a mic

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and on the back we have that camera strip that made its debut in the pixel 6

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and 6 pro originally this camera bar looks significantly

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flatter right yeah that's quite a bit flatter here look get

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that shot the camera bump is significantly smaller and that's

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partially because of the downgraded camera specs for the 6a they're going

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back to the same camera that they were using in the previous pixels which is

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kind of disappointing to see it's kind of been the deal with the a series that

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you know the point of getting the a series is that you get mostly the good

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stuff from the non-a pixel and it you

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know they they take out some of the unnecessary stuff and they cut down the

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price a little bit but for this one they kind of they significantly downgraded

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like the main reason why a lot of people get pixel phones which is the camera

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maybe everything's fine and we don't need to worry about anything ever

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oh no this is better which is like

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that makes sense

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oh yeah okay so unsurprisingly the pixel 6 pro

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speakers are better than the pixel 6a speakers

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is that what you wanted they're both uh pretty good i gotta say so i was talking

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in the beginning a little bit about how the pixels have been kind of

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disappointing for me they have this promise of being the you know the one

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true Android phone the the default stock Android experience that's like pure

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without all the bloat and the bells and whistles that you don't need from the

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fancy other things like samsung and motorola there's basically there's

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samsung and then all the chinese manufacturers oppo xiaomi you know they

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all have their extra things that they add and the pixel line is supposed to be

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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

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the camera quality uh used to be kind of like pixels are the best Android cameras

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you can get and now samsung has caught up a number of other phone manufacturers

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also make really great phone cameras and one of the big things about the six

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period series in particular is that they took away this amazing rear mounted

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fingerprint reader that was on my pixel 3. i think the the 5a had it the 4a had

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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

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want the glass back i guess so they did the under screen fingerprint reader like

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the other phone companies are doing but it was a bit slower i set up my

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fingerprint on both the 6 pro and the 6a

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let's see how she does so this is the 6 pro wow okay yeah that

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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

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ui customizations that google has made for the pixel 6a i mean it's using the

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pixel 6 launcher which is also used on the 6 and 6 pro but you know as an

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avowed pixel aficionado i can say it's one of my favorites although

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i am leaning more and more into thinking that like the fact that it's a stock

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Android experience is actually maybe not good

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maybe i want all of the cool features that samsung has like innovated and put

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into their phones i mean they're keeping up with apple i want to talk about the

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actual specs inside the 6a is supposed to have the same tensor chip that is

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found in the 6 and 6 pro so you are

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going to get you know those those cool new features like the magic eraser for

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the photos and stuff that i looked at in my initial ShortCircuit for the 6 pro

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which was actually really cool but since then samsung has added their own object

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remover feature or whatever to their phones so

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what is tensor getting us i don't know also only six gigs of RAM in this

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compared to the eight gigs in the six non-pro you can get 128 gigs of storage

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on the 6a no expansion options and when

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it comes to displays i'm actually pretty surprised to see the downgrade here

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because the 6 has a 90 hertz uh display

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ammo led HDR 10 plus and in this one we

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got 6.1 inch to the 6.4 and the other pixel

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only 60 hertz OLED not amoled and it's

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got gorilla glass 3 instead of victus it

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also can only do 18 watts fast charging as opposed to 30 watts

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fast charging on the 6. there's a lot of things missing but let's take a look at

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the cameras to see whether you know i'm freaking out over nothing um okay

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interesting so we have the wide camera here it says point six times

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zoom to go to with the the wide which is weird i can zoom into the two times i'm

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definitely seeing a lot of grain there the the 12 megapixel sensor is uh

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is struggling am i gonna use the magic eraser again

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okay there's a photo you know so as much as i talk about now i feel bad now i

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feel bad because as much as i talk about you know how uh pixel cameras haven't

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really kept up and uh you know they're not as as jaw-dropping as they used to

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be it still takes great photos i mean don't get me wrong like the pixel you

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know you're not gonna look at the photos and be like throw that in the garbage but at the

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same time you know it's more that the rest of the industry has caught up i

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think the colors are there the sharpness is pretty good i mean i can see that like

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google's machine learning is doing its stuff i can definitely tell you i've

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seen much worse processing and artifacts

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on uh on photos from other phones when you zoom all the way in like this and

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this is like pretty pretty decent for you know a 12.2 megapixel instead of

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like the 50 megapixel that you see in a lot of other phones now selfie cam

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okay all right i mean hey that's looking nice pixel okay fine pixel you still

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take pretty good photos tools magic eraser oh that was close

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because they've been doing this thing where they take away these like the the

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more advanced tools unless you pay for google one and that's a whole thing i

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want to get into that circle the plant

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wait what did i not complete the circle do i have to like do this to the whole

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thing oh there we go oh did you see that it

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just like selected it was like yeah that whole squiggly hole did you just need to

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like tap it okay let's take the whole shelf away

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okay i mean honestly that that looks similar to the result i got last time oh

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i didn't want it whoops okay sure whatever

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okay magic eraser performance seems to be on par

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using my extremely non-uh empirical test i just made up just now

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the the 6a is the first a series phone from google to not have

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a headphone jack it used to be one of the main reasons why you would consider

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this is because you know not everyone had made the switch to the bluetooth

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earbuds yet so there's no headphone jack they decided all right the the game is

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up no more no more that i you know at 4 49 i just don't know because i've been

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looking at that galaxy a53 and that's looking pretty nice that the 853 with 5g

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just came out in march i think it also has ip67 so it's like okay you know not

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quite there yet but it has a 5 000 milliamp hour battery compared to the

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4400 milliamp hour battery in the 6a it's got gorilla glass 5 on the front

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instead of gorilla glass 3 and it's got an sd card slot so you can add extra

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storage if you want to oh and i didn't even see that its main camera is 64

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megapixels instead of 12.2 megapixels and of course megapixels aren't

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everything but samsung's camera software has been like i said keeping up with

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with uh with the pixel so the pixel 6a still is an option for people who don't

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want to spend the 5.99 for the full 6 or the 8.99 for the six pro and if you you

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know if you're in that pixel family and you want to stay there the 6a is here

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and it's you know it's not horrible i we have obviously haven't done like full

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tests on it apparently the battery is okay it can last up to 72 hours with

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extreme battery saver uh is what is what they claim but considering the state of

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the market and what else is out there i'm not sure whether 449

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is a you know compelling enough price just so you can say that you have a

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pixel when the a535g exists and when a ton of other mid-range phones

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with flagship specs the nothing phone just came out and it's 3.99 euros which

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is right now is the same as on par with the usd so the nothing

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phone is out and it's got killer like well i don't know but the price to

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performance is there it's 50 cheaper it's at least got a cool back on it and

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this one is what is a sage i don't know i'm just you know i'm just

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i'm in this place where i need to buy a new phone my pixel 3 has the back

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cameras messed up and they're not really fixing that under warranty anymore i

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looked on i fix it they don't have the screen i could grab for it it's not

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charging i'm looking for an upgrade and i'm looking at the 6a and i'm just kind

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of like why would i go for you when i can get the a535g

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that does a lot of the same things uh for the same price and more it has

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better specs i don't know i just always get confused about what google is trying

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to do with their pixel project they say that they

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wanted it to be sort of like this gold standard for Android you know especially

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you know especially given the news about pixel phones suffering from hardware uh

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issues i don't know if i want to take the gamble on the 6a

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whether it's sage or chalk you're gonna it's gonna crack it's go it's only

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gorilla glass three it's not invictus you need victus and you should also

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