Google is again with one other entry-level smartphone, the Pixel 9a. With extra AI smarts, a brand new {hardware} design, and the most important battery on any Pixel but, on paper, it sounds good. Particularly the sub-$500 price ticket.
In our full Pixel 9a evaluation, Sam Rutherford breaks down the place corners have been minimize in comparison with the remainder of the Pixel 9 household, specifically display screen (which remains to be good!) and sluggish charging.
Whereas there’s help for practically all of Google’s AI options, the $499 Pixel 9a doesn’t get entry to Google’s Screenshots app, which is an odd oversight. Particularly when the telephone has the Tensor G4 chip.
With ‘solely’ two cameras, as soon as once more the Pixel 9 presents correct photos and sufficient versatility for many of us, together with a macro focus mode for pin-sharp close-ups. Briefly, it’s prone to elbow out final 12 months’s Pixel 8a as the perfect mid-range smartphone.
— Mat Smith
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