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

Solid phone, got it to use with tmobile and it works good on the 5g band. Nice bright screen with no OLED burn in. No sd card which is kind of a bummer, lightweight smooth feeling plastic housing that looks good and a screen that's not too offensively big. Good battery for just general phone activities I usually end the day around 40-50% with medium to light usage. No trash bloat apps from carriers and my recommendation is to go into app info of all the apps you don't use and hit disable on them and enable remove animations in accessibility settings to make the phone feel super quick. It's a generally good phone and I just needed something smaller and after my previous phone was too big in my pocket. I don't game on my phone but I wouldn't expect 60fps from newer games on this. I use the headphone jack daily and there's no hissing or unwanted noise from the internal dac so it's good enough for Spotify or your mp3s. Fingerprint is fast and my only gripe is I hated the stock launcher it came with so I just use the Microsoft launcher from the play store. It's a phone and if youre just some guy or gal that needs something reliable Id say this is a good place to start. Cheap phones have gotten good especially if you are willing to shop a few years back. Id take this anyday over the newer entry level LG and Moto phones provided by Carriers. Of course all phones will eventually fail but for 170$ I can't complain when that time comes.

Works well. No complaints.

I use multiple phones, and I'm multi-platform, so if you ask me: Which are you, an android, iphone, mac, windows, or linux user?My answer is: yesBut I've 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, it's 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 don't cost $1000. Saw some good things said about the Pixel, thought I'd try the Pixel 4a 5G and see if I liked it. I do.I don't 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. It's also heavy, feels expensive, and the feature set and ecosphere quite complete. Almost heavy-ish. I love the phone, and it's 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.I'm very pleased with my purchase. Refreshing alternative to Samsung. Don't 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 can't cut it. Apple is much better in that scenario. But I'm glad that there's 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?

The Google Pixel 4A 5G truly sounds impressive on paper with its Night Vision mode, powerful videography capabilities, 5G connectivity, extensive suite of apps, large file storage capacity, all-day battery, video streaming, yadda yadda yadda. And it's THIN! And it's LIGHT! - Only 168 grams!There's only one problem, however. It is as fragile as a potato chip. Six days ago, I was walking through my neighborhood with my nine-month-old Google Pixel 4A 5G in my front right pants pocket. The Pixel was encased in a Spigen Tough Armor case and was equipped with a tempered glass screen protector. Due to an unfortunate encounter with a dog, I tripped and fell - on my back, mind you. I was fortunately not hurt (although to this day I hope that worthless dog gets struck by lightning), but when I pulled my Pixel out of my pocket to exchange phone numbers with the dog's owner, I discovered the damage you see in the attached pictures. The phone display showed what I can only describe as a "green screen of death." From that moment to now, the phone has been totally unusable. The front screen is destroyed, the headphone jack is destroyed, and the back cover has partially separated from the front of the phone. And all this from a drop of about 33 inches. (I'm not a tall guy!) A drop that occurred while the phone was not only in its protective case, but was still in my pocket!Which leads to two philosophical questions. First, if a phone has impressive capabilities, yet is too fragile to take with you on a walk, what good is it? I don't play video games, nor do I watch movies on smartphones. And if I want to take pictures, there are plenty of good cameras that I can buy. My Pixel's capabilities are worthless to me now, and I am out $500 dollars for a phone that's turned into a piece of junk.Second, what's with the obsession that manufacturers and sellers of certain things have with weight and size? We're constantly being bombarded with marketing that says that we should buy the lightest, thinnest versions of certain very expensive things - as if the presence of even two or three extra grams will pin us to the ground. It's not like we're competing in the summer Olympics! I am thinking right now of the Greek myth of Sisyphus being punished eternally by being forced to roll a large boulder up a hill only to have the boulder slip out of his hands just before he gets to the hilltop. And I can imagine someone coming to him and saying, "Dude - the reason you can't roll that rock over the hill is because of the smartphone you're carrying! It adds weight and slows you down! You should buy one of our phones, because they don't weigh anything more than air!" Thin + light does not always equal "cutting-edge quality." Thin + light = cheap sometimes.