Pixel 8a Review: AI @ Google I/O! 

He’s the best and it’s not really close

You do realise he's just as much an advertisement as the rest of the big mobile youtubers

​@@ennayanneyeah bur Fishers good for calling out what works and what doesn't

@@ennayanne I think to a certain extent it's like a cat and mouse game between reviewers and companies. I like Mr. Fisher because he just keeps it straightforward. The reality is these phones are becoming stagnant and I look for those little things that he finds interesting and I find interesting :)

@@DannyFenton217 people have said that for over a decade

Yeah that’s true. If that’s its major negative it must be pretty good tbf.

I just upgraded from a Pixel 4a 5G, and it does need to be said that the Pixel 8a's bezels are comparatively humongous *and* less symmetrical than the 4a 5G's. I don't know how but Google managed to make their phones both more expensive while feeling cheaper.

@@ikt32 the phone in literally every other capacity feels and IS more premium, the bezels are 3% bigger, so in literally no universe can they be considered "humongous" it's just laughable.

@@ikt32 also the 4a 5g was the more expensive updated version of the 4a and therefore launched at the exact same price as the 8a lmao, so the only downgrade is 3% screen to body ratio but everything else is an upgrade.

I could give you one. I've used one for the past 7 months straight.

Don’t leave us all in suspense!

@@ElectricC0mpanygive us one here?

@onthefence928 okay. I will. This will be a little long because it's a review, just FYI Do not buy this phone right now. Even though I love Pixel phones, and folding phones. And even though I'm using the pixel phone when I also have a pixel 7 pro I could be using as my daily driver. I came from using a z fold 2. Before this Samsung, I was using pixel phones and I still kept a pixel phone as a backup while using it. I love the big screen of folding phones. The outer screen of the fold 2 was garbage. Too slim to do most things on it. The transition to the pixel fold was a mix of good and bad. The outer screen is excellent. It's closer to the 18:9 aspect ratio that phones had for several years. I think all phones should have this aspect ratio. Most are a taller 20:9. It's unnecessary height. Most videos are 16:9 and 18:9 allows you room for notifications at the top and navigation at the bottom. But although the outer screen of this phone is great, the problem is the inner screen. The inner screen of the Pixel fold is the same size as Samsung's current folds. It only opens in a different orientation. There's nothing wrong with the crease. It's as deep as a z fold but wider so it's much smoother to swipe over. The problem is the orientation. I thought I would love a landscape orientation over portrait orientation so it could be more like a tablet or computer. But most apps were never optimized for this aspect ratio. And they can't be optimized for landscape orientation. You typically get a 16:9 aspect ratio app unless you force it to widescreen. You're actually getting a shorter app than on the outside screen because the outside screen is taller. Internet browsers, maps, and native Google apps are the only ones that can properly take advantage of this screen. Forcing an app to fill the screen causes glitches and is not a good experience. Other apps can't take advantage of the landscape orientation because they would have to do a major overhaul of the app. And developers don't have the motivation to do that. Even Google has made their search results on computer and tablet browsers to mimic what you get on a mobile phones by making the search results slimmer. One thing that might improve your experience on the pixel fold is to turn it to landscape orientation once you unfold the phone. You can lock the outside screen to portrait orientation and leave the inside screen unlocked separately. But if you're like me, you don't like an unlocked screen orientation because you will get unintentional changing when you tilt your phone. At one point you could lock the inner screen to portrait orientation, but it will now automatically default back to locked landscape once you've used the phone closed and then open it. But even still, if you put the inner screen in portrait orientation, it's not as good a z fold on portrait because they have optimized the apps. Like with Facebook putting all of the menu buttons on the side of the screen and allowing you more vertical scrolling on the rest of the screen. Even though there's this close working relationship with Samsung and Google, they haven't ported over these optimized apps to the pixel fold. And then you have what was the biggest complaint about this phone when it first came out: The bezels. After you use this phone, you will find the bezels to be the least of your concerns. They completely disappear from your periphery. If you've ever used a tablet, laptop, or computer, you've had bezels, and those bezels were bigger than what you get on this phone's inner screen. But sure, it would be nicer if those bezels weren't there. It's simply not the issue It was made out to be in the beginning. I guarantee that's why Michael Fisher has moved back to the pixel fold. But lastly, we need to talk about the cameras. The pixel fold has solid pixel photos. But I was incredibly disappointed. For s specific reason. A plus of the folding phones is being able to use the main cameras for selfies and video. I was a bit devastated when I tried using this setup to take a selfie on a lit up city street at night. It's way too dark even with night sight. I get better selfies from the selfie camera of my pixel 7 pro than I do on the main cameras of the pixel fold. Video is barely any better on the main cameras of the pixel folds than they are of the selfie camera on the pixel 7 pro, if any. My z fold 2 offered such an upgrade when using the outer cameras versus typical selfie cameras. The selfies of a Samsung fold with the main cameras were much better than what you got from the selfie cameras of an S Ultra. You simply don't get this benefit with the pixel fold. One bonus niche scenario I'll talk about is multitasking on the Pixel Fold. You'll rarely ever use it, but it's great when you have your phone in a holder in your car and you can have your music app open on one half the screen while navigating on the other half of the screen. It works much better on the pixel fold than a Samsung fold because on the Samsung you're getting two slim versions of the app and they don't work good, just like the outer screen. In conclusion, unless you get a really good price on this phone and you're willing to work with its quirks, I would definitely wait for the second iteration of this phone that should come out in October.

​@@ElectricC0mpany- muchus gracias.

LTT also did mention the sale thing in terms of the 8 vs 8a price debate

That's an important point though, it just shows how greedy google is getting. The way things are Pixel A might just become an unwanted child for google.

@@keerthan7558 In Sweden, Tele2 are giving away the 8a for free if you renew your contract for 24months. That is what I did.

@@keerthan7558 the issue with the pixel a series since the 6a is its basically a slightly watered down non pro pixel specially with the current 8a, back during the era of the 3a and 4a they were proper budget midrange phones with specs to match said price range(midrange chipset, no ip rating, full plastic outside, etc etc) hence the cheap pricing but now as said its basically an 8 with a miniscule difference in clock speed in the chipset and a different build

@@seagle_p7 Pixel A 's hardware was bit inferior compared to the competition so i'm glad they went with glass build. Those plastic backs would get scuffed easily and wear down over time. Ye it's just a watered down version of Base pixel flagship model , not a fan of it. We don't need higher refresh rate or top spec cpu at that price.

Same bud, as always!

Is it silicone-carbon, or is it silicon carbide?

S24 is way better

same here, absolutely amazed to see this haha

It was an anemic performance; the AI tech he was using didn't work right. Not his fault, it's not really his audience and it showed. Deadest audience he's probably performed at since his early Dallas days when nobody knew who he was. He even acknowledged the awkwardness of the set on Twitter, noting that he was hamstrung by Google.

Looks nothing like it 😂😊

Yeah me too. So stupid 😢

Yup. Gemini is garbage.

I'm going to wait for Gemini to get more refined before switching over. Assistant is just fine for my needs. Though I really like Samsungs Galaxy AI (fold 5 user), the live translation has been a godsend.

wait until samsung's get announced. should be announced in a few months

I can totally see that!