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hey better late than never that's what i always say ladies and gentlemen

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this is it the one and only google pixel

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4a launching in canada on

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september the whatever if who cares because everyone else has already made

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videos about this so we're just going for it here ladies and gentlemen

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the pixel 4a is part of an overall

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industry trend that honestly

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i'm surprised didn't take off sooner

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being hands on with it i do wonder if things might have gone a little bit

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too far here it's really plasticky

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feeling you know what it reminds me of is like the old nexus 5

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top spec like really good hardware but with an

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unapologetically plastic build quality that helped to justify the low price and

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a low price it does have at just 350 us

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dollars the pixel 4a on paper looks like the

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best bang for the buck for someone who cares

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about the photos they can take with their smartphone but not necessarily the the raw gaming

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horsepower let's get this puppy fired up here this

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at the link in the video description let's have a look at the accessories

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real quick here okay got your sim removal tool

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got your wall wart let's see this is a fast charger

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nine volt 2n fast but not super fast

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whoopsy daisies type c to type c and then i believe this puppy is for

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transferring data or something like that you know how it feels in the hand though

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brandon friendly it's one handable that's something that

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honestly i as someone with smaller hands have really missed about flagship devices

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but it's not too small just like you've seen on some of

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apple's lower end devices i wouldn't describe it as a thick bezel but you've

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got like a mid-size bezel all the way around as opposed to you

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know what we used to see as the sort of the trendier move which

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was kind of your wrap-around display on the side and then a bigger forehead or chin i still

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absolutely hate hole punch displays and i can't wait for this atrocious industry

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trend to go away but on a 350 device i'm a lot more willing

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to overlook you know why they couldn't engineer an under screen display

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or you know a pop-up or a flip around or whatever else the case may be

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i'm already really coming around to it so it's got a rear fingerprint sensor

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which it's not state of the art you know there's no face

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you know dot scanning thing there's no under screen fingerprint sense or

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anything like that but as a daily driver note 9 user i

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the vast majority of the time just use my rear fingerprint scanner even though

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i do have an iris scanner anyway like it is something

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that i've really gotten used to over the years wow that was a really fast fingerprint setup

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okay so it's coaching me on gestures this is not a good

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initial setup gesture coaching thing though because i've seen better ones

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that force you to actually perform the gestures before

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allowing you to move on there's no squeeze that's something that's

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missing on this pixel device compared to previous ones

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honestly there's going to be quite a few pixel experience things that you're not

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going to enjoy here so for one thing that is a single camera setup it's

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actually still got this gigantic camera bump as though it did

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have multiple cameras which has led to some speculation about the

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upcoming 5g version of the pixel 4a maybe having more than just 5g added to it

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because it's going to be 150 more dollars compared to what we might expect from an

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upcoming flagship pixel device like a non-a variant

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there's no high refresh rate display and the hardware is quite pedestrian

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so even compared to the pixel 3 the

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pixel 4a is not a super fast performer

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it's 730g chipset is even slower than what you'd find in similar concept

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devices like the lg velvet and the oneplus nord it's got just six

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gigs of RAM and is only available with 128 gigs of storage

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even though there's no micro sd expansion it's got just a 3140 milliamp hour

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battery and even the camera which pixel devices are

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famous for is just a 12 megapixel single lens

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affair but what i'm expecting google to get

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right with this device is of course the little things the

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haptic feedback on this phone in spite of it being a

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mid-tier to entry-level device is really good i don't know that other

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than the iphone sc i have ever seen that before because

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that's the kind of little touch that manufacturers who focus too much on

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specs and not enough on experience tend to overlook another big one is

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software starting with display calibration this is something that google and apple both

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take very seriously whereas a lot of other

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smartphone brands are all about you know pumping up the vibrancy at the expense of

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true to life colors we actually shoot our videos at 18 by nine

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and you can see that google appears to have positioned their hole punch

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so that 16x9 content won't cut off

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but if you're watching videos that are in a more cinematic aspect ratio it

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looks like the default behavior is to just have a hole in your content something

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that just is always going to bother me unfortunately

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i will say though that if you had told me i was going to see an OLED display of

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this quality on a 350 mobile device just

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you know three short years ago i'd have told you you were freaking nuts

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wow this is even on adaptive mode but there's hardly any difference between

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natural and adaptive thank you google i would even leave this

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adaptive mode on it's really not bad so on the bottom you've got your type c

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port as well as speaker ports on the left you got

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a whole lot of not much other than a sim tray on the top

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hey you got a noise cancelling microphone and a headphone jack

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and then over on the right you got your lock button as well as your volume up

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and volume down quick double click there it's gonna launch the camera let's just

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take a couple quick snaps i'm just i'm idly curious man they just get it

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like so close to what your eye actually sees

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don't they that looks way too sharp to just be 12

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megapixels you gotta love all their ai nonsense eh

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so far this is pixel exclusive although i wouldn't be too surprised to see it

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rolled out to others in the future but you can actually use the same ai

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nonsense that google uses to take a single lens shooter like this one

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and apply background bokeh in post and

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use that on your old photos as well like previous google pixel devices

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there's unlimited high quality now not unlimited quality but

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high quality storage for both photos and videos which i'll help a little bit at

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least with the fact that it's only got 128 gigs of storage on board

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i want to know if it has an amplified earpiece speaker that's a really big one for me

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introducing the products that we are building

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and there's a fair bit of device vibration it doesn't feel

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premium when you've got the volume turned up support for hdr10

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hlg and dolby vision a little bit of distortion

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but it gets loud it's stereo it sounds not bad

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this thing is going to be popular you guys it's all about delivering

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you know that premium experience but selectively

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in the places where people actually care about it three years of committed

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software updates you get that pixel quality camera

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processing but you get it for 350 because you don't need like a you

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know crazy multi-camera setup a giant screen and

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all that other all that other fancy stuff there's no wireless charging you know nothing like

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that but it's responsive enough as long as

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you've never experienced a high refresh rate display i don't think you would look at

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this and go oh you you know 730g i simply cannot use it

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to you know call my acquaintances

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oh i don't have a sim in it so that's why i was trying to call you brandon if

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my brother or my aunt or whatever like not enthusiasts but obviously they want

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a device that like just freaking works was like hey what

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phone should i get this or the iphone se are looking pretty

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compelling the one area where this falls behind the

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sc is that i would expect apple especially

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given that they've got a flagship level soc in that thing

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to provide support for it for longer so it's going to come down to kind of

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how long you want to use your device for the iphone se is really a very

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compelling option right now actually manufacturers are starting to really

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bang that drum and you've got apple and google on board

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now maybe we're gonna see the end of the you know twelve hundred dollar phone

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or maybe we won't and they just

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will be a little bit better and you can pay a lot more i guess that's fine too

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