[Google Pixel 4a Real Life Review] Deleted member 12226481:
!! DISCLAIMER !! : THIS PHONE HAS SUFFERED ~30 DATA WIPES BECAUSE OF CUSTOM ROMS.

My honest review of the Pixel 4a after 3 years of not careless usage. Let's recap and ranking each aspects of this device.

Summary:

• Display: 😁

• Sound: 😁

• Battery: 🙂

• Connectivity: 😃

• Hardware: 😃

• Software: 😁

• Camera: 🤯

• Development: 😐

• Security: 😃❔

Overall score: 9/10

Detailed review:

Display: Packed with a 1440p, 60hz OLED screen, this screen is considered the best for people who like me. Even though it has a 60hz screen,but hey, at least I don't get motion sickness.

Sound: This is the BEST speakers I ever heard on a smartphone, beating the JBL GO and any typical car stereos. There is no bass in this phone unfortunately, but the sound quality is 🔥.

Battery: 3140mAh is already enough for any usual tasks like TikTok, Whatsapp, or Netflix. Using Adaptive Battery from Google, Pixel can dynamically manage your battery depends on your workload, heck, you can watch Netflix at 480p (poor) longer than you can expect when watching TikTok. Using Google's 30W charger, this phone can charge from 20% to 80% in 20 minutes. On the other hand, battery life has been degraded by 20% after 3 years of usage.

Connectivity: Google also manage your network traffic depends on your workload using Adaptive Connectivity, which means using LTE or Wi-Fi should be pretty okay on this device.

Hardware: Despite 3 years old, 6GB RAM with a Snapdragon 715 is enough for basic workload today. However, I should expect more from Google when giving features to any Snapdragon-based Pixel phones.

Software: Launched with Android 10, upgradable to Android 13 (up until August) is not enough for users who willing to get long-term usage from this phone. But at least you have unlimited photos backup with reduced photo quality..

Camera: THE BEST CAMERA I EVER HAD IN MY LIFE, and the reason why I love Pixel phones so much. Shooting crisp photos, in capable of recording at 4K 30 FPS, this phone is great for photos, but okay for video, because of the 30 FPS cap with 4K. Portrait is great, with many different presets like Color Pop (only make colors visible on the focus object), Black&White (yk what that is),... In video, there are 2 different modes: Standard ( Video Stabilization) and Cinematic Pan. Both of them are great at capturing stable videos. In Night Shift mode, capturing photos at night is no longer a bright light flashing at your face, while it uses AI to enhance the details in the dark. Oh, 1 underrated feature in this Pixel is Photo Sphere, Photo Sphere helps you capture photos in 360° view by taking many different photos and merging together, modes like bird eye view, horizontal, vertical can be found by swipe down from the viewfinder.

Development: I have trouble finding proper trees for this device. Maybe because of my skills or the developer itself?

Security: Titan M is good for encrypting personal data while off or on, and Pixel Imprint (fancy name for the fingerprint scanner)'s response time is okay.

Other: The thing I hate the most about this phone is frequent unresponsive touch on the device, sometimes it goes numb, or some slow to response to touch. The bad thing is, they never patch it. Maybe because of factory defects? Or I dropped 10 times and this happen?

All of this comes in a price of $339 in 2020, now worth $129. Now should you buy it in 2023? No. Simply because this device is already 3 years, and features aren't that really worth it now.

Question..? Feel free it ask here!

Wrote this while on a car trip.

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