![]() ![]() Pros: great camera, good screen, great software and update support, great battery life, relatively inexpensive, headphone socket, 5G.Ĭons: no expandable storage, no water resistance, plastic body is a bit plain.The Pixel 6 Pro is the 2021 flagship in Google’s Pixel line of smartphone, featuring a 6.7-inch OLED LTPO display with 120Hz refresh rate and QHD+ resolution, Google’s brand new in-house-developed Tensor chipset and up to 512GB of ROM. There are smartphones that offer better hardware for similar money, but they simply can’t match the Pixel on camera or battery life.Īt £349 the 5.8in Pixel 4a is better value if you’re not interested in 5G or want a smaller phone, but the Pixel 4a 5G is faster and ticks a lot of boxes, particularly if you can find it at a discount from its £499 RRP. That means you get a really great camera, good screen, decent performance and good software with three years of software updates. It isn’t as nice to hold as the £599 Pixel 5, but the rest of the experience is essentially the same, just with a slightly bigger screen and longer battery life of more than two days. The Pixel 4a 5G is the best mix of battery life, price and capability of this year’s Google smartphones. The Pixel 4a 5G costs £499 and is only available in black.įor comparison, the Pixel 4a has an RRP of £349, the Pixel 5 costs £599, the OnePlus 8T costs £549, the OnePlus Nord costs £379, the iPhone 12 costs £799 and the iPhone SE costs £419. Indoor 5G reception is weaker than phones with top-spec chips such as the OnePlus 8T or Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2. The good and fast fingerprint scanner on the back makes unlocking the phone quick and easy. ![]() Google will recycle all Pixel devices free of charge. The company publishes environmental impact reports for some of its products including the Pixel 4a 5G. The Pixel 4a contains about 47% of post-consumer recycled material in its plastic mechanical parts – part of Google’s commitment to include recycled materials in all its products launching from 2022. Out of warranty repairs cost £110 for the screen or about £60 for the battery through one of Google’s repair partners, iSmash, or via the Google Store. However, the typical lifespan of a smartphone battery is at least 500 cycles while maintaining at least 80% capacity. Google does not provide an estimate for the expected number of full charge cycles from the Pixel 4a 5G batteries. The Pixel 4a 5G ships with an 18W fast charger that takes less than 90 minutes to fully charge the phone, hitting 50% in about 35 minutes. ![]() Google’s new extreme battery saver system will extend battery life greatly when needed by only allowing a select group of apps to run, suppressing all others. That means even with my relatively heavy usage, the Pixel 4a 5G lasts from 7am on day one until at least 7am on day three. Gamers looking for the fastest frame rates will want to look elsewhere.īattery life is very good, lasting more than 48 hours between charges with the screen on for about six hours and using 5G for two hours and 4G for three hours, with the rest spent on wifi during that time. Processing photos shot in quick succession takes longer – as does opening complex websites – than rivals with a top-spec chip, but it handles everything I want it to do. The phone feels snappy and responsive, apps load quickly, and switching between them is smooth. That also means it has a faster processor than the smaller Pixel 4a. The Pixel 4a 5G has the same upper-middle-range Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G processor as the Pixel 5, but slightly less RAM with just 6GB. The phone charges via the USB-C socket in the bottom and ships with an 18W power adapter. ![]()
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