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Picked up a new Google Pixel 3a or Pixel 3a XL? Congrats. But now you need a decent, tough and rugged case that also has a bit of style mixed into its protection. There's no better company to meet the need than Otterbox and it now has both the Otterbox Defender and Otterbox Symmetry for the Pixel 3a.
Tech expert and #teampixel member Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out two different colors of Symmetry - Aspen Gleam and Fine Port - and the Dark Lake two-tone Defender case for the Pixel 3a. And finds them excellent options that will ensure your new phone survives just about anything.
Check them at https://www.Otterbox.com/
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Cases for the Google Pixel 3A? Let's see what we got
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Dave Taylor here, and I am holding my trusty Google Pixel 3A
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It's a great phone. The more time I've spent with this, the more impressed I am with how much Google is jammed into this extraordinarily affordable phone
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But like any phone, regardless of price, you want to be able to protect it
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So, talk to my friends at Otterbox and they sent me a couple of cases
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They just released these cases for the 3A. So, let's have a look
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There are two that are what they call the symmetry style. Here's one of them
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These are feature a raised screen bevel and the way it's designed, if you are familiar
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with the 3A, you know that if you squeeze on the sides of the 3A, you get Google Assistant
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And with this case in, I can still get that. that same functionality. Super nice. Now, one of the things I often look at when I look at phone cases
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is, is it Chi wireless charging compatible? But the 3A doesn't do wireless charging, so that's not an
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issue. So basically, all you have to do is look at the style and where it's protecting and how
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accurately they got all the holes and all the cutouts. And as you would absolutely expect from
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Otterbox, they absolutely nail it. Everything is exactly where it should be. You can see that
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the audio jack might be a little tricky, but I think most plugs it's going to work fine
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Otherwise, everything is just exactly in the right place. And I really like this
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This is a very cheery color called Aspen Gleam. I actually have been to Aspen and I not sure what this color has to do with the city but there it is So this is Aspen Gleam And again one thing that really important is that there a raised bezel and it just enough that you know if you drop your phone the screen isn going to take any of that impact And that really important So they sent me two versions of the symmetry So this one is the Aspen Glow That yellow right I would just call it yellow Obviously I am not in the color naming business because this one which is a lot of
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kind of a two-tone because there's black and there's this sort of dark magenta, but it's
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not dark magenta. This is called Port Wine. So there you go. Port Wine Symmetry case and
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Aspen Gleam Symmetry case. If these are all just way too much color for you, you can
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also get it in black. And this style of case for the Google Pixel 3A will cost you
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$49.95 at otterbox.com. But let's be honest. The much more fun case is this big
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defender case well I already have it out and the defender case is interesting
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because it's this big multi-piece thing it's really kind of like building a
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Lego kit or something so the phone goes in this part and you put the phone in
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and it's just this big deep strong case first you build the plastic part and as
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you can see there are little hooks all over the place it's got to get it all
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lined up I think I need to do it this way And it clicks into place
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And let's get all the way around. Whoops. See? That wouldn't have mattered
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I could have dropped it on the floor. It would have been fine. So now we have this
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And yeah, it's kind of ugly. But when you put that in the rubber case that is the second half of this
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then you get this really great sort of like classic otter box design And the company is really well known for its big heavy rugged cases And this is definitely one of those where I feel like if this fell out of the car or fell out of my pocket while I was on
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my motorcycle if I had a motorcycle then it would be no problem at all the case just fits and it's
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tough and it's quite attractive looking I'm just getting it all to fit just so and there we go
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I think we got it all. There. So it doesn't cover the screen
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So it's still super easy to work with your phone. And I can still unlock it
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In fact, let me lock the screen. And then I can unlock it because you can still get to the fingerprint sensor
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And it's kind of interesting how they do that. It's a big cutout. And then the ports are actually covered up
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So just put these in. And so there's holes for like the speakers on the 3A
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But the charging plug, which is a USBC plug, as you know
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the charging plug has a little cover flap on it. So this is a super rugged, tough case
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And not only that, it actually comes with a little belt holster. So if you want to be super nerdy or you just need to be able to have your phone on your belt
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then it's a super easy one you put on your belt. And it holds the phone as needed
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I suppose you could actually mount this on a wall or something if you wanted to
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But probably most people don't. So it's a non-slip grip. It really has a nice feel to it
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Comes with the belt holster, as I said. And there's the hard shell with the pork covers and everything
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And there's a lot to like about this. Now, this two-tone color where it's sort of a khaki and this very dark, I don't know, almost all dark purple, dark blue sort of color
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This is known as Dark Lake. And I like this because you get the sort of lighter color on the inner side and then the darker color on the outer rubberized coat And this is just like crazy strong
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I feel like, like I said, I could just like chuck this out of my car on the highway and I would go back and pick up my phone and it'd be fine
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So if you worry about breaking your phone, even a $3.9 pixel 3A
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If you worry about breaking it, then this is a great case
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So this, as I said, is the defender from Otterbox for the Pixel 3A
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And this is a little bit more spendy. This is 5995 at otterbox.com
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But there's no question that if you want your phone to be able to survive whatever it is
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you're going to experience, then this is the way to go. It's way more protective than anything Google's going to send you
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So that's what I got. Now, before I wrap it up, go ahead and click that subscribe button
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is subscribed to my channel. Really appreciate when you do that. So there we have it. We have two
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of the Otterbox symmetry cases, and they have symmetry cases for a ton of different phones. So
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if you don't have a pixel 3A, then you can definitely go and check it out anyway. And then they have
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the Otterbox Defender, which is my personal favorite, because I don't care what you're doing
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This is going to protect your phone. It's a great option. It's a great thing to choose
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So with that, I'm going to go toss my phone out of the car window, maybe more metaphorically than literally, and I'll catch you in my next video
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