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It's The Google Pixel 3a Unboxing!
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May 29, 2025
Tired of paying $1000 for your smartphone? Google's offering a game changer with the new Pixel 3a Android smartphone with the same great camera as the Pixel 3 but a slower processor and different build. At less than half the price! Yes, a solid Android phone option for $400. But what's in the box? Tech expert and #teampixel member Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ got his hands on one of the very first Pixel 3a phones and checked out what's in the box. In other words, yes, a Google Pixel 3a Unboxing! #teampixel #pixel3a
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it's the Google pixel 3-8 but what's
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inside the box let's find out
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Dave tail here and as you can see I have
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a brand new Google pixel 3 a phone very
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nice turns out I'm part of what's known
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as team pixel so Google sends me this
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gear along with a bunch of other people
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super cool really appreciate it but as
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soon as I got this I said we need to do
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an unboxing so that is what we're gonna
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do now on the back you can see we have a
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custom box that even in references team
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pixel pretty sweet but pixel 3a and it
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is sealed so we need the unboxing tool
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we shall use this although we probably
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don't have to it looks like well we
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don't need to they actually planned
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ahead where you just have these little
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tabs you pull and now it is open so here
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we go this is very exciting so the
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Google pixel 3a here it is right here
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all with its perfect little shrink wrap
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now let me tell you about the phone just
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a little bit so while I unwrap all the
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plastic so this is running Android 9.0
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hi Android Pi and it's powered by a
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 64-bit octa-core
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processor 4 gig of ram 64 gig of storage
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there is no SD or microsd plug or socket
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or anything so that's what you get 64
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gig of storage and that's it it also
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however does have on the top a headphone
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jack sweet now I'm kind of used to the
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whole Bluetooth thing but I like having
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a headphone jack and I don't know if you
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can see here in the reflection but the
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top portion maybe the top inch and a
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quarter is reflective and then the rest
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of this is sort of a textured it's all
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polycarbonate aka plastic so in the big
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brother the Google pixel 3 the back is
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glass this is plastic it feels like it's
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a metal or something I mean it's a
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really nice feel to it I am
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complaints with this initial feel see so
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it has the rear facing camera is a 12
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point two megapixel F 1.8 and the front
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and notice I'm starting it up the front
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is the 8 megapixel selfie camera these
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are exactly the same cameras as in the
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pixel 3 and the pixel 3 takes amazing
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photos so I have high hopes for this now
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here's one interesting thing is this is
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not Gorilla Glass even though that's
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kind of the industry standard Corning
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Gorilla Glass this is something called
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dragon trail glass so we'll have to get
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it out in the field and see how it does
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in terms of long term resistance to
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scratch and cracks I sure hope it's
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resistant because I don't want to have
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to be that sad person that says brand
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new phone cracked so that would be bad
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now this is the 3a I suppose I should
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have this part facing you and it is
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actually the cheaper of the two the 3a
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sports a 5.6 inch ready for this 2 2 to
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0 by 1080 resolution Oh LED screen which
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is interesting because the 3a XL which
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is the more expensive one is 4/10 of an
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inch bigger on the screen but it's
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actually running a slightly lower
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resolution according to the Google specs
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the 3 Axl is at 2160 by 1080 versus this
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which is twenty-two twenty by ten eighty
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so interesting choice
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now the 3a also has a smaller battery
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this is a 3000 milliamp hour battery
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whereas the 3a Excel has a 3700 milliamp
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hour battery so there's that difference
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too now I'm not going to actually set
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this up because we're doing an unboxing
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so we need to look in the box right so
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we have this whatever that's just a
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storage unit then we open it up we have
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this container looks like it's the sim
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removal tool and a user guide and how
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cool thank you google a team pixel
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sticker you probably won't get that in
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yours told you this was a custom team
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pixel version right otherwise I'm sure
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it's like ninety-nine point
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9% the same pretty much that sticker and
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the back piece of the box of all that's
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going to be different so we have that
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then as you can see we have the USB to
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USB C adapter and then we have the USB C
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charging cable it's USB C on both ends
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which proves to be important because
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sadly sad panda sound this is a phone
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from Google a brand new phone and it
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doesn't do wireless charging now they
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could have put wireless charging in on
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the back it is compatible with a plastic
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case they chose not to que sera sera
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kind of gotten used to wireless charging
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but it's really not the end of the world
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because it does come with a their new
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fancy fast charge this should be an 18
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watt charger with USB so you plug it in
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you plug in the cable you plug in the
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phone like we have done for what a
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decade and a half now and then you would
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be charging it so it's supposed to have
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really great charge specs obviously I am
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just pulling it out of the box I have no
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idea whether those are true so in the
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Box you do not get headphones you do not
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get earbuds you do not get any way to
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listen to this oh well but you get a
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charging cable you get the charger you
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get the humming take it out of its
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little holder you get the USB see two
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USB 3.0 just put on the bottom and then
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you are ready to rock and roll with any
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of your old peripherals and of course
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you get the phone and so far it's pretty
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nice it has a really nice feel to it and
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it's a good size and I'm gonna give you
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a quick tour of the sides of the phone
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so on the right-hand side it looks like
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we have volume up and down and the power
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button in orange pretty swanky on the
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top we have the 3.5 millimeter jack on
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the left side is the slot for your SIM
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card and on the bottom are two little
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cutouts for speakers and USB C for
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charging and for peripherals as needed
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on the front there is no not that Spears
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a big black
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but here right so this is not an
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edge-to-edge sort of screen but still
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it's as a very nice look to it on the
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back you have your 12.2 megapixel f-18
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rear camera and the little flash next to
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it and then you have this indentation
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which I am absolutely guessing is your
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fingerprint sensor so pretty easy they
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haven't done anything super fancy with
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fingerprint sensors embedded under
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screens or anything but let's be honest
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this is an entry-level affordable phone
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and at the price this is a crazy good
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setup so that's about it for the
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unboxing now they also sent me one of
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their cases and that's really nice I was
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like getting cases cuz assuming I can
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open it I like to not actually have my
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phone damaged let's see should not be
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that hard to open the case right but
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this one looks like it's gonna require
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our unboxing tool so I will use that
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uh-huh and here's the case that's very
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nice it might not be the most exciting
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looking case in the world but it's
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certainly very nice looking and I am
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absolutely sure yes the phone fits in
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beautifully and you can see there's what
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the back looks like and it's interesting
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because the phone itself has an orange
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button but the case has this sort of
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fluorescent or a neon yellow button so
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we sort of changed button color schemes
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there but I guess that's true because it
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works across all three different colors
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of the pixel three eight so makes sense
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so let's see here's our case and then
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the phone itself let me just end by
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giving you some pricing because this
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Google pixel 3a phone well actually hang
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now Google pixel 3a the smaller of the
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two screens this is the one with the 5.6
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inch le o le d-- and this one is $400
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that is crazy and expensive for what
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they've packed into this and yeah it's
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gonna be a little slower processor and
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there's no wireless charging and it's
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not ipx7
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so you can't like you know use this
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while you're in the pool but seriously
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for the price for all the technology
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that's here this is a really good deal
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now you look at this and you think
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screens a little small and I wish I had
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a little bit more battery than you my
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friend are a candidate for the Google
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pixel 3a XL that is more expensive at
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480 dollars but it does give you 700
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more milliamp hour battery a milliamp
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hours of battery however you would
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pronounce that and that one makes it
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four hundred and eighty dollars and
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again pretty good deal considering that
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most modern top you know most modern I
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won't even say top-of-the-line most
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modern smartphones seem to be pricing
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out at around $1000 so being able to get
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one for less than half I already am
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getting email from people saying is this
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going to be good for my kids do you
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think my wife would like this do you
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think my husband who doesn't understand
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tech would be good with this phone I
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think this is gonna be a winner for a
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lot of different categories so huge
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props to Google for thinking about
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making something affordable and
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delivering which is something that Apple
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was not able to do with the 10r
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even though theoretically the iPhone 10
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R was supposed to be their more
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affordable modern technology iPhone
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that's a whole separate discussion
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anyway that's all I got for the unboxing
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we have emptied the box successfully
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right so everything's out and now you
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know what's inside the box of the Google
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pixel 3 a hope you found this useful
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leave me comments thumbs up give me some
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feedback tell me what phone you're using
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or whether you're excited about this and
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I will catch you in my next video
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