Google Pixel 4a with 5G - Android Phone - New Unlocked Smartphone with Night Sight and Ultrawide Lens - Clearly White

Hmm .. Where to start well this phone is budget friendly and has pretty much everything that you would want in a modern smart phone . The camera is everyones main concern when buying a android it shoots in 4k so you wont have a problem taking those foodporn pictures. As for the front camera its just a standard 12mp. But it honestly beats forking over 12-1300 for a smartphone!! You can even connect this thing to google fi and save 1000s on your cellphone bill !!

The Pixel is a lot like the Samsung Galaxy, but better priced and a bit smaller for the pockets, you know. I wish I knew that new apps were Introducing themselves ALL THE TIME. And it will is a pain to get rid of them. Now there is a Chat app I cant get off the screen. There is a lot of junk on the phone that I do not need. And the predictive text is now using pictures instead of the word. Wish I had known...

Just after the one year warranty was up, the charging port fried, for no good reason at all. Initially I was glad to have a phone with usbc charging, but my previous cheap Samsung phone with regular USB lasted years longer than this. It stopped charging and was a nightmare to find a shop that would fix it, because for whatever reason, theres a large chance this phone will be broken during repair attempts. Finally found a shop that would fix it and the fix lasted three months. Charging dead again. Its too bad, its a decent phone otherwise but now I cant even trade it in because, obviously, it wont turn on. Huge disappointment.

I use multiple phones, and Im multi-platform, so if you ask me: Which are you, an android, iphone, mac, windows, or linux user? My answer is: yes But Ive never paid over $1000 for a phone. Ever. Never will. I like flagship phones though, and will buy a new-old-stock, or pristine used, 2 year old flagship model. This seemed to work for me quite well. I still have an iPhone 8 Plus that is awesome. Also part of the equation is security updates. Frequent, regular, like clockwork, security updates. With iPhone this is standard. With android phone makers, its hit and miss, mostly miss. Samsung does update their flagship frequently... for a time. But Samsung wants $1200 for their flagship. No thanks. Pixel? I heard Google provides regular, systematic updates. Their phones dont cost $1000. Saw some good things said about the Pixel, thought Id try the Pixel 4a 5G and see if I liked it. I do. I dont have complex needs. Other than good security, and frequent security updates, I also like good pictures and video. The phone is light, the battery lasts a long time, the screen is just a little bit smaller than my iPhone 8 Plus and far lighter. The iPhone 8 Plus was a flagship at one time, and you can tell. The build quality is phenomenol. Its also heavy, feels expensive, and the feature set and ecosphere quite complete. Almost heavy-ish. I love the phone, and its my backup now. The Pixel 4a 5G is minimalist, light, leaves you uninvolved or slightly detached from the massive Google ecosphere, unless you go in and configure the various bits and pieces of it. Im very pleased with my purchase. Refreshing alternative to Samsung. Dont get me wrong, Samsung flagship is a beast. But I never buy new $1000 plus phones. So the best that I could do is buy a used or NOS Samsung Note, which I did (a Note 9), and it was a terrible experience. Old android version, build quality was not too hot. If you ever look at buying a flagship phone that is 2 or 3 versons behind, Samsung cant cut it. Apple is much better in that scenario. But Im glad that theres something that fills the gap between flagship phones, and just a nice, new, current, phone with frequent updates. Who better to get an android device from, then the people who make android?

Just broke completely with no reason after 2 years, after my first Pixel broke the same way, after 2 years. Before purchasing it, I believe Google Support told me this model would have a better life, so I naively purchased this newer model. 2 years later, here we go again, broken again, I have to spend all this time I dont have to discuss the matter, find a new phone, reinstall everything, and grieve my lost data. No mention to the financial waste for me, and ecological waste for the planet. I reached out to the support team who seemed comprehensive at first. After they failed at helping fixing the problem, they advised me to try to get it repaired somewhere since my warranty expired (I guess phone warranties are so short nowadays as brands are totally aware they sell you crap), or to get a new phone. They gave me a 20% coupon, but I reached out again as I was still concerned about getting one of their phone after the 2 phones I got failed me so bad. The person advised me to get a Pixel 7 which will have an improved battery and life. With the current sale + my coupon, the price would be ~360$. Not bad he said. Except that when I added the product to the cart and applied the coupon, the sale was removed so the final price was MORE expensive than when I didnt apply a coupon at all. I reached out AGAIN to the support team who after a while told me to contact another team. I contacted this other team today, I have enjoy to waste time with people who are not helpful at all, and a robot like person kept saying Sorry - discounts are not stackable showing no sign of concerns as the previous team lied to push a customer to purchase a product, and finally shut the conversation after a while. I didnt even ASKED for a coupon the first time, so why a company would send an unusable coupon at the first place, valid to purchase phones only except that if you use it youll pay a more expensive price than anywhere else?! its insulting and just shows the lack of consideration of a company for their customers.

At first it was ok for the price. Pictures are amazing once you take them (well get to that). The 5G depends on what carrier you have. For me I have T-Mobile and half the time if it says 5G and full bars, that basically means I have no service and cant connect to the internet. If I have 5G and its half or very little bars, that means I have good service. I know, its stupid and makes no sense. The OS is good overall but as usual, Google is stripping down or dumbing down all their services in some way or another. That means for the Pixels less options and less customization. So if theres a way you can revert back to Android a year ago, then do it. Otherwise its ok but inching closer to the Apple* mentality of heres 1 option, just take it. Now for the camera. Holy hell the delay when you hit the button and it actually taking the picture is absolutely abominable when you first start the camera app. If youre an iphone user, this is your ammunition. You can use this to make fun of Android, full stop. Its hilarious. If youre a photographer and need to capture stuff in the moment, stop reading this and buy something else. Its atrocious. I took a 2 minutes 4k video and it took 15 minutes to rotate the video 90 degrees. Yep. If youre willing to wait sometimes up to 5 seconds to take your picture then this is good haha. Everything else is typical android. Overall, just save your money and get the flagship pixel phones with a processor thats actually worth a damn like the Pixel 4, 4xl, etc. They made sure to put the 5G capability in the mediocre models and it sucks.

I really like this phone cuz raw Android . Battery life is not bas ,my previous phone was Moto Z Play and battery life was really good after 3 years it was working for 2 days but for Pixel 4a 5g its les than 1 full day if you use it more than usual . The camera is awesome . specially night mode pic . I like it more than all Samsung , its fast enough for professional working

Ive been using this phone for 2 months now and its an absolute beast! The battery takes me a full day doing multiple tasks like surfing the internet, email, and the occasional texting with WhatsApp. Its also part of my daily commute to and from work using the google maps navigation and Spotify to play music with the cars bluetooth connectivity. I can say its been one of the best informed purchases i have made recently.

I like him very much.

I was a fan of the pixel, had the 2XL for a long time and it held up for several years against the competitors until about 2021, 2 and a bit generations later I thought Id upgrade. The 4a doesnt feel like an upgrade from the 2 at all. The camera is not noticeably better and laughable to competitors on the same generations. I understand its a budget version, but for a phone that sells itself on camera capabilities, the focus Id expect wasnt there. Within one month I started seeing functional problems where touch screen wasnt responsive, Google assistant wouldnt work even with the phone unlocked, and never locked despite enabling it to unlock at home. I wont comment on the 5G performance as that could be a location/network issue but very disappointed with this purchase and wouldve been just fine sticking with the 2. The 4a is probably literally worth what they pay for a trade-in.