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hey guys this is Austin and today we're

here in Mountain View for Google's

annual IO conference where they've

announced the brand new cheaper Google

pixel 3a nethers phone has leaked and

leaked in leaked I mean the first time

we saw this was back in December and

this even last week was on sale at Best

Buy before it was even actually

announced so we got the pixel 3a a

little bit early so right as we got to

Google i/o they handed it to us and

that's me flattering than mine biggest

eyes I've ever seen it what makes this

special is the price so the pixel 3a

starts at just $400 in the pixel 3a XL

is 480 dollars and I'm sure that's not

dirt cheap or anything but around half

the price of the standard pixel 3 that

is a big big difference and really the

main idea here is that you're really not

losing a lot when you go down in that

much lower price bracket it wasn't that

long ago that a flagship phone cost 5

maybe $600 over in the last couple years

we've seen some major changes on that

front I mean you're talking about the

iPhone that's $1000 the galaxy has tan

which can go well above $1000 I mean

even the standard pixel 3 starts at 800

bucks and can't stretch all the way up

to that wide like 950 bucks or something

no it's cool to see high-end phones that

are really pushing the boundaries of

what we can do at tech but not everyone

wants to spend $1000 or even $2000 in

the case of some of these high-end

folding phones something like the pixel

3a which delivers a very similar

experience for something that's much

more reasonable

I do think does make a lot of sense for

most people I mean really for the vast

majority of people who are watching this

video right now if you're buying a 2 to

400 other phone you're getting 90% the

experience of a much more expensive

flagship and that is definitely a good

thing I have a question what do you

think about a $400 pixel 3/8 and should

someone actually buy it um it depends

does the fact that I'm putting a

microphone straight in your face without

you having any warning and change your

opinion here no it doesn't but it's very

close to my mouth that's how you're

supposed to use a microphone is that

true ken is the true

yes yes but I don't know somebody should

buy this or not I think it's I think

it's legit you heard it here first legit

hi friends how's it going hey what's up

I'm putting the microphone uncomfortably

close to people it's very young it's

like I don't know well my semi supposed

to lick it

um I'm liking the camera's been playing

one of the cameras for the past couple

of days for that price point I think

that's I gotta say after looking at all

of the other colors the black does look

kind of boring but there's a lot more to

the pixel 3a than just the color

especially there's a lot more to it than

just the Lux

so to get to this lower price point one

of the main cuts here is to build

quality as opposed to a being made out

of metal and glass it is all plastic

I've actually done a pretty good job of

hiding this so the back finish feels

almost identical with the sort of matte

finish on the bottom and the sort of the

quality of finish on top when you look

at it on the side it is very clear this

is a plastic phone and that's a little

bit of a concern at $400 it survives the

Jerry everything test maybe I don't know

it gives me a little bit of pause it

certainly doesn't feel quite as premium

when you hold it on the side I mean it's

just just glossy black plastic it's not

no I'm not a Jerry everything it right

here front of the stage this phone got

announced like 25 like 20 minutes ago no

I'm not gonna do that now there's no

wireless charging or any kind of

official water resistance but both the

3a as well as the three Axl don't have a

knotch

now this does look a little dated to be

honest especially when you consider that

a lot of other phones in this price

point have tiny notches but on the other

hand you'll have the pixel three excels

notch so yeah you know one thing the 3a

does have a headphone jack yes my

friends Google has decided to bring back

the headphone jack on the lower end

models which is a really interesting

decision I guess because there's really

no reason not to include it but then if

that's the case why didn't they include

it on the higher-end models anyway also

what you do get thankfully are also

stereo speakers now it's really loud

here so I should really haven't been

able to test them all that much but the

fact that we do have stereo speakers as

well as the headphone jack is awesome on

a phone or pretty much any phone

especially something at the $400 price

point there are actually very few

differences between the pixel 3a is

the Excel the main difference is that

the Excel has a larger 6-inch display

compared to five point six inches as

well as this has a bigger battery thirty

seven hundred million powers as well as

three thousand but besides that they're

pretty much the exact same phone same

cameras same specs all that kind of

stuff now you are missing out on the

spec side of things so inside you'll

find a Snapdragon 670 processor as

opposed to the 845 on the pixel 3 as

well as the 855 on a lot of high-end

flagship such as the galaxy s 10 II so

as the s 10 and well most everything

else so the interesting thing about this

is that they're really banking on the

idea of software being incredibly well

optimized that the pixel line is kind of

interesting for that because a lot of

times they're incredibly fast when you

first get them and yet the pixel 3 has

certainly had some issues with sort of

that long-term reliability of it

actually staying fast so we'll have to

see how all things go at least at first

glance it does seem to be pretty

reasonably snappy and it does have that

same 4 gigs of RAM although you are

limited to only 64 gigs of storage on

the sky really the star of the show here

is the camera so Google has claimed that

this is a very very similar experience

to which will find on the standard pixel

3 as far as I can tell the hardware

itself so the lens the sensor the

optical image stabilization is all

pretty much identical here the main

difference is going to be on the

software side as well as on the

processing side because it does not have

that same Snapdragon CPU which means

that even though it has a Snapdragon

processor it probably won't have the

exact same performance so when we've

done a few tests it kind of played

around with it we have gotten pretty

similar results it's a very sharp camera

you do have things such as night sight

but this is really the main question of

whether or not we'll actually have that

super high-end camera performance first

impressions seem to be good right it

seems to be really close but I don't

really feel comfortable saying oh it's

the exact same as the $800 pixel until I

have a little bit more time to play with

it but if they nail the camera this is

absolutely the killer feature of the

pixel 3/8 I mean it really is kind of

the main feature of the pixel in general

so you're talking about something that's

four hundred bucks that has some of the

best image quality of any smartphone you

can buy that is an incredibly and

compelling value proposition

I'm cold hey can you tell that when you

come to a Google event you have to come

prepared right I walked in like hey

Austin how's it going here's a badge

here's a hat I'm like thank you very

much I'm gonna wear that hat for my

entire video is it difficult to listen

to a guy who's wearing a propeller hat

as he tells you to buy very expensive

technology I don't think so seems

reasonable enough to me also speaking of

some of the stuff they announced here at

i/o is a lot of security and privacy

updates so we literally just did a video

pointing out some of the Sully

questionable policies that Google has

related to privacy so it's actually

really nice to see that just a couple

days after that video obviously they

watched it and changed their entire

business model to kind of support

privacy better or we just got lucky and

post our video right before it was

completely obsolete what what do you

mean really the main selling point with

the pixel 3a is that for half the price

of the standard pixel 3 you were getting

a very similar experience and I mean

that's kind of hard to argue with no it

has been no surprise that the pixel 3

has not been the strongest seller

it was a pixel that very much kind of

bumped up the price and for a lot of

people it wasn't super well received I

mean I think a lot of people do consider

the pixel 3 to be a good phone but the

sales really haven't backed that up so

it does make a lot of sense that Google

will go on a lower-end option with the

pixel 3a and bring as many of these

high-end features as possible and it

seems like they've done a pretty good

job it's easy to compare this to

something like the iPhone 10 R or the

Galaxy S 10 II both of which are kind of

like the budget versions of the

flagships but this really doesn't quite

compete I mean first of all it's like

half the price of both of those phones

so that kind of makes it difficult and

on top of that it is a very much lower

end phone as far as the specs and the

build quality goes really the main thing

that this has in common with other

pixels is of course the software

experience as well as the camera besides

that it's a plastic Android phone with

mid-range specs I mean it's decent it's

solid but it really does come down to

that software as well as that camera

experience I mean the redmi note 7 pro

that we did a video on recently is $200

so half the price of this it has better

specs as well as a pretty solid 48

megapixel camera now is this going to

outperform it on that camera side and

maybe on the software side pretty

positive Lee I mean its stock Android

and it's super smooth but it's still a

huge huge amount of competition when you

can get that phone which is on paper

even better than this in a lot of ways

for a lot cheaper and also it's not made

of plastic so this price point really is

an incredibly competitive market and it

is going to be interesting to see just

how well the pixel 3a stacks up once I

spend a little bit more time with stuff

like the camera and whatnot so if you

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