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One day in and Im very happy with this phone. I inserted my Verizon 4G LTE SIM card and it worked without issue. My city does not have Verizons 5G UW band, and as for Verizons other 5G, the Nationwide band, coverage is hit or miss anyway based on their coverage map for my town. But who cares about 5G? I spend 97.5% of my time on WiFi. Even before the pandemic forcing work from home full time I still used WiFi in the office. Check the coverage maps and consider your use case, and realize its stupid for Verizon to charge an extra $100 for the same phone that they also load bloatware onto and place other unnecessary restrictions on. Update: There must be no such thing as a 5G SIM card because I was out the other day and my signal showed 5G anyway.

Finally a phone wheres others can hear me without asking me to continually repeat myself!! Also, Im able to hear clearly others without trying to clarify!! Excellent camera is a real bonus. After playing around with it a bit, adding microsoft launcher to it adding navigation buttos on the bottom, I had it just like I need, super awesome!! The audio and camera alone makes me want to make this my most favorite cell phone ever!!

I will keep this review short and sweet. I got this phone mainly because Qi charging was listed as supported. [17] Qi-compatible. Wireless charger sold separately. No. It is not Qi-compatible. If you want to charge it wirelessly, you need to buy a receiver -- not the same as a charger. Even with a receiver you will still need a charging pad. Ive seen all sorts of misleading information about this feature and Pixel phones. Some even saying that wireless charging support came in around Pixel 3. According to Google -- this phone does not support Qi charging. If you want the wireless charging, get the Pixel 5.

Very easy setup from my old phone. This phone is fast and plenty of storage. Does everything I need beautifully. The battery life kind of sucks. The display is dim not as clear as my Motorola

El único detalle es el plástico del cual está hecho, se ralla con mucha facilidad, la funda es indispensable, afortunadamente los case de Google están muy chulos. La cámara de lo mejor, el modo noche es increíble, se hubiera agradecido una pantalla con mayor resolución pero vaya, nada es perfecto.

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.

Liked everything about this phone, better than my galaxy s21. Battery life is good, camera is excellent, and Google is easier to you than standard android

Phone ringtone is a mess, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt, and the worst part is that there isnt vibration either! I have to be looking at phone constantly to know if someone is calling.

I know Im more than likely the rarest type of user for smartphones, as I dont particularly care about the camera, I dont think facial recognition is particularly practical, I rather not use fingerprint security because honestly Ill forget my password otherwise. Im also neither a gamer (at least not on mobile) nor do I use it as my primary work tool (thats what the desktop is for). I am however a rather clumsy person who uses public transport, and this phone is NOT up to that kind of use. The construction of this phone is too thin, round and smooth to be practical for pocket carry (without a case, and screen protector). I do enjoy listening to music, and I have to say while I dont ever expect anything fantastic from a phones speakers (I use headphones for that), they are not only surprisingly weak but have a pretty heavy skew for the bass tones which is bad because I need a strong mid range for alarms and notifications. Talking about the speakers and the flimsy construction. It is worth noting that this phone is soo thin and the bass skew is soo strong that the whole phone feels like its vibrating along with the music, even when its at medium volume. For the speakers to rattle the phone this much, I feel safe in saying that this phone wont survive 2 years of city use. As for software, hardware. Stock Android is the best android so no complaints here, and the hardware is almost too powerful for what I use it for, and I have no doubt this power for the phone SERIOUSLY contributes to its middling battery-life. While new the battery lasts about 12 hours of constant use, but as the phone ages I fear this will rapidly turn into 2 hours, and that contributes to the feel of disposable phone. This is a phone that REQUIRES a strong case and screen protector to be even remotely durable. Overall its a decent phone but not one I can recommend