HONEST REVIEW Google PIXEL 8a 

This weekend there were some crazy promos and trande-in, I got my 8a 256gb for 250€. A mobile carrier has the 128gb for 220€ but with contract. This is a phone that shouln't be more than 350€, for the retail price the regular 8, iPhone 13 or Samsung S23 are better options.

@@Ruisantos84 It was the perfect time for a new phone contract. Got a new contract with 30GB for 22€/month. Got the Pixel 8A, the 256GB version, for 150€ total while having a guaranteed 150€ trade in + probably 50-70€ for the old phone I´ll send in.

Bought one for €202

No trade-in in Belgium

​@@Eugensson it was till 3th of July, maybe u are to late. Pixel 8a cost €550 I combined it with a subscription plan of 1 yr for €7/month (=€84 cost) with that the phone only cost €369. With the trade in of my old Poco X3 NFC I get €17 + the promo of €150. Total of €202 and the SIM card (€87) I gave it to my mom

I can’t decide between aloe and green!

Bay Blue here!

Did pre order same color today. Excited

That is a really sharp color. If I pick one up that’s the color I’ll go with. I may wait until it goes on sale lol 😂

​@PaidPricesthwres only one green color and it's aloe.

Also on 6a. I'm going aloe.

@@MyNameIsJohnathanMinecraft Aloe is also nice.

If you're buying from Google store they will mail you a package to put your trade in phone in.

But iOS is basically for kids. It doesn't let you download it any software you want unless it comes from the app store which is criminal. Probably should be illegal and will be illegal in Europe starting this year. I couldn't imagine using a phone and not having access to browsers with desktop extensions. Third party launchers, revanced, new pipe, f Droid. And the pixel has a much better point-and-shoot camera than any iPhone. MHKBD's blind test The pixels outperformed the iPhone by a country mile. Pixel 6A was number one in the Pixel 7 was number two. Next year the pixel 7A was number one and the Pixel 7 Pro is number two and the Pixel fold was number three. Meanwhile them s22 ultra, s23 ultra and the iPhone 14 and 15 respectively were way behind. iPhone does have a reputation for better video for sure but before those blind tests with elo ratings a lot of people would have told you Apple had the best point and shoot camera. Turn down a lot of that was just reputation. Same with updates, the Apple gets way too much credit for their supposed class leading updates. Even before Samsung and pixel stretched out to 7 years, Apple doesn't give you app updates after the final OS update. So that means like a iPhone 7, 8will never get an app update ever again even while an Android phone from 2015 is still getting Google Play services. So I don't know if you care at all about ad blocking, customization, open source software etc, I think the pixel is way superior to the iPhone. It's biggest weakness is probably it's modem and it's inefficient chip. To me that's a much smaller liability than not being able to choose my own browser (All of the browsers on the app store are based on Safari code so Firefox and brave etc are not even the legitimate versions of themselves)

The heat was really bad on the tensor g1 chip, but it is better on the g2 and g3 chips

@@LilRenlor Still heats up though, G3 heats the phone up while even watching youtube videos. Don't expect to push this one, if you live in a warm climate it will be always warm.

Yes it will heat up a bit because they're using Samsung's fabrication chips which are just notoriously thermally inefficient. It's not a deal breaker for me though I still think if you live in the US or the western market pixels are the best value on Android. With you I guess you can make a case for the OnePlus 12 r this year since it does have an incredibly efficient chip, but also incredibly fast charging and class leading battery life. But I much prefer pixel software and Pixel cameras to OnePlus. The 8t had the 865 chip I think which is an awesome chip and thermally efficient. But of course that phone's not getting updates anymore and doesn't have it nearly as good of a camera. But it's definitely more thermally efficient than tensor But I mean 99% of the time it's not going to cause any issues besides slight feeling of warmth. Some people were saying that was only an issue with the first gen tensor and I don't think that's true according to the benchmarks with temperatures. But I mean it's kind of the nature of chips, 8g1 888, certainly non-arm chips get really hot that's what they do. I think the Pixel will really take a step in quality in 2025 when they no longer contract Samsung to make The chip but TSMC who is making the incredibly efficient 8g2 8g3 etc .. The 888 and the 8g1 (from phones like the s21 ultra and the s22 ultra) we're also fabricated by Samsung and more notoriously thermally inefficient and hot. The 8g1 in particular causes shutdowns on Sony and OnePlus and Samsung had a major throttling scandal and had phones delisted from geekbench and tablet as well

​@@czkmeisterYou can absolutely push it. It's just going to feel warm and throttle a bit. It's not ideal of course and it's going to be an issue with the Pixel 9 as well It should be fixed with Pixel 10 when TSMC is making the chips instead of Samsung. But it still can push any game, it actually has the fastest rendering times of any flagship for video rendering. You can absolutely push it. I mean it's way better of a chip than like 8g1. And people used that for emulation and so on when it was the flagship chip in 2021 or 2022.

@@michaelcorcoran8768I agree rather tmc

Ok relax, with your precious iPhone...all hail the iphone

Last time i checked, apple makes dogshit Midrange phones.

Im using a pixel 7a till the pixel 8a releases here. The best thing on the camera app is that you can just plug in any mic and use it to record 😊

@@AssassinIsAfkthe design for the SE is ancient but it has been an excellent phone for me. That includes the camera but its time to move on and the pixel 8a seems like the phone for me

@@baldone45for real. I love iphones and androids alike. If I were to make actual videos for youtube on ANY phone I would use an external mic. Iphone, samsung, google doesnt matter. Same with cameras. Cheap camera or expensive camera, you use an external mic.

They fixed that on the pixel 8.

Better than paying for an iPhone with 64gb of internal storage for nearly twice the price.

The Pixel 8 is a few hundred dollars, the 8A is free if you just renew your mobile contract for 24months. (Free as in you pay the same amount as before but get a phone if you want)

@@AndrewTSq I'm not able in my country 🤷

@@MelnykNazar. ah okey, the difference in price here is almost $300 if you buy them cashed.

Too cheap your talking about a phone with one of the best cameras on the market.

Damn I wish you made the prices up on everything in life We all could save so much money

This is a budget varient of the flagship experience the same way Samsung has its FE series and apple has their SE series, this isn't supposed to be a phone thats extremely cheap / extremely affordable

@@realandtrueguys This is nothing like the SE though as this is 95% a Pixel 8 where as the iPhone SE was a huge downgrade in screen and camera etc the 8a is similar to the S20FE/S21FE though not S22 FE.

​@@wizzgamer my point was that these were budget varients of flagship phone series