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A new budget phone from Google that offers great features and capabilities at a surprisingly affordable price. Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ got his hands on one early and shows everything that's in the box. And talks about the specs too, of course!
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The Google Pixel 4a? Let's find out what's in the box
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Dave Taylor here and I'm pretty psyched to get this so early
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This is the Google Pixel 4a and it's their latest generation of affordable
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budget... they probably don't use the word budget... but affordable Pixel phones. So Google uses the Pixel line to basically test everything in
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Android. So if you're excited about the opportunity to have like the very latest and greatest version of Android, that's one great
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reason to have a Pixel phone. Turns out they're really nice phones and
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they've done a really good job with them. So let's find out what's in the box with
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the Google Pixel 4a. Now as I do that with my handy but
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somewhat dangerous unboxing tool, you always have to have something like this
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it actually has little pull things but pull things push off. We will cut things, right? That is just how we roll here
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So I'm going to cut this one and then I'm going to cut the other side
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and then carefully close up our unboxing tool and this means that
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we have a box we can open. Now let me tell you about the Pixel 4a
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It's a 5.8 inch screen running at 2340 by 1080. It's an OLED at 443 pixels per
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inch and apparently it has a hole punch camera on the front. It is small and light. It is actually a
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surprisingly lightweight phone here and on the back you can see they have
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the square for four cameras but it looks like there's only actually one camera in
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here which makes sense because it does have in fact just a single camera. So there's trade-offs but the price of
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this is crazy low. This is really affordable. Let me just jump to that. It's $349. Now if you're used to
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thinking about $800, $900, $1,000 smartphones, this is a whole different world and of course it's going to have some
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trade-offs but let's see. Hopefully it will turn on so we're powering up. While we're powering up I can tell you it has a
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3140 milliamp hour battery. It does not support wireless charging but it does have USB-C charging on the bottom
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and then on the top they have this glorious thing that you might have
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forgotten about called a 3.5 millimeter AUX or headphone jack. Yay! And it's on top which is really great. A lot of companies
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even the latest Samsung I just looked at they put their audio jack on the bottom
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and I can't really figure that out. So I guess that's just the way they do
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their circuitry but seriously come on Google, nice job. So while this is
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starting up I can tell you it's powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 730G. Gives you 6 gig of RAM on board and 128
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gig of storage at its most basic configuration. The rear facing camera is a 12.2 megapixel
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at f1.7 giving you a 77 degree view, 4k at 30 frames per second, 1080p at 30
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60 or 120 frames per second. So that gives you slow-mo. Or 720p at 240 frames per second which gives you
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super slow motion. The front there's a little punch in the corner there. Here's
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a close-up but the punch gives you the forward-facing camera and that is an 8 megapixel camera at f2.0
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giving you an 84 degree view. So pretty darn nice specs. So I am really
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excited to actually check it out and give it a review. You will want to
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come back for that. I will post tons of example videos and photos so
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you can look at them but let's continue unboxing. So in the box
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are is a sim removal tool which means on one of the edges
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somewhere there is a sim slot. Oh there it is. It's on the lower left side so it's right
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here. So it's the sim removal tool. Super easy. And then in the box are three
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things. There is the wall plug. This is supposedly an 18 watt wall plug which is a nice
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power level. It should charge pretty fast. And a USB-C to USB-C charging cable
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And here's the one thing that they include that I really like. This is a USB-C to USB-3 adapter. Why would you want that? Because
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then you can plug it into the bottom of your phone and you can plug in regular USB accessories and peripherals depending on
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what they are. But for a lot of things this is really what you need and it's just included in the box. So
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props to Google for doing that even though it is obviously a brand new phone. And you know at this point maybe they don't
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need to since this is their low-end or their new low-end phone. But
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that's what they got. That's what's in the box. So we have the
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charger. We have the charging cable. We have the USB-C adapter. We have some paperwork including a sim removal tool
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We have a cardboard tray. And most importantly we have, I'm not
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sure what it's doing here. Oh it's trying to connect to Wi-Fi. We have the actual Google Pixel 4a. Now let me tell you this is not the 5G
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version. The 5G version will be coming out later in the year
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I don't know if there'll be any visual indication that it's different
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But it has a really nice feel. This is a nice small phone. It's light. It's sleek. And assuming I don't drop it and break
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it. It has what looks like a fingerprint sensor on the very back. Smack dab in the middle
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So they've just sidestepped that whole issue of trying to have it embedded in
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the screen. Which seems like a lot of complication for nothing. And this is also much more sort of
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ergonomic because you're going to have your phone and hold it this way anyway
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So that's it. That's what's in the box. Google Pixel 4a. It's going to be priced at $349 at
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amazon.com. At store.google.com. At a ton of different places. And it actually officially comes out on August 20th
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So I obviously have a chance to look at it a little early. Which is pretty
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sweet. And you'll want to come back and check out my full review. And heck while
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you're at it why not subscribe to my channel. Really appreciate when you do that. And that helps me gain access to all of
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this cool gear. So go ahead and subscribe. And I really appreciate that. So it is now checking for updates. Which is
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kind of a miracle because I haven't connected to any wi-fi network. But we'll figure out what's going on. And with that I'll catch you
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in my next video
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