GooglePixel 4a with 5G - Android Phone - New Unlocked Smartphone with Night Sight and Ultrawide Lens - Just Black

Perfect for developer and root usage

Solid phone, got it to use with tmobile and it works good on the 5g band. Nice bright screen with no OLED burn in. No sd card which is kind of a bummer, lightweight smooth feeling plastic housing that looks good and a screen that's not too offensively big. Good battery for just general phone activities I usually end the day around 40-50% with medium to light usage. No trash bloat apps from carriers and my recommendation is to go into app info of all the apps you don't use and hit disable on them and enable remove animations in accessibility settings to make the phone feel super quick. It's a generally good phone and I just needed something smaller and after my previous phone was too big in my pocket. I don't game on my phone but I wouldn't expect 60fps from newer games on this. I use the headphone jack daily and there's no hissing or unwanted noise from the internal dac so it's good enough for Spotify or your mp3s. Fingerprint is fast and my only gripe is I hated the stock launcher it came with so I just use the Microsoft launcher from the play store. It's a phone and if youre just some guy or gal that needs something reliable Id say this is a good place to start. Cheap phones have gotten good especially if you are willing to shop a few years back. Id take this anyday over the newer entry level LG and Moto phones provided by Carriers. Of course all phones will eventually fail but for 170$ I can't complain when that time comes.

Just got this phone a few days ago, so still evaluating it but wanted to clarify one point that some users are having a different experience with-the 5G functionality with VZW. I've attached a photo showing that the 4A 5G that I received from Amazon DOES work with VZW's 5G band. Just wanted to get that point out here on the reviews, based on what I had read here I was ready to handle just a 4G connection, so I'm excited to see that 5G icon! So far, love this unit. I've always been a pixel fan, except for the pixel 4 and it's huge forehead and chin, seemed to go opposite of the smartphone trends. Say what you want about a plastic build, but I love it. It's so light. And what's is the big draw to a glass back build? Glass breaks people, plastic doesn't. And have fun paying for that glass replacement, since none of the phone insurance plans will cover it. And what do 99 % of us do with our glass sandwiches??? Slap a rubber or plastic case on it. I'd rather have the plastic build, yes with a case, but the weight is so much less since it isn't wrapped in glass. Big proponent of the pure google experience on the pixel series and no overlaid UI from the manufacturer. Battery life on this one is good. Started out at 830 this morning and at 1900 was at 45%. Plenty of screen time during the day. So no complaints there. Speakers are incredible. Any time you have to turn the volume down on a phone cause the sound effects are blowing you away on that game or movie, is a sign of a great set of speakers. Charge time is fine. Not as fast as some of the flagships, but I've been able to go from 25% to 68% in 20 minutes. That's good enough for me, and I'm rarely away from a plug or a battery pack, so charge time isn't a huge factor for me. The fingerprint reader is what we've come to expect on the pixel - Faster than lightning. The in screen readers on the flagships are just no where near as reliable or fast. I'll have to get used to the rear mount again, but that's not a problem for me. If you need face recognition or wireless charging then this isn't the device for you obviously. But I don't list that as a kick in the nuts to the pixel 4A 5G, it just doesn't have it, so if you need those options then look elsewhere. For my money, 459 for this phone is an awesome deal. This will be my daily driver for the near future, for sure.

Phone already had issues picking up signal from day 1 -- often times picking up 0 bars, leaving me stranded without GPS directions multiple times. I've lived in the same area my whole, these are places where I 100% have signal through my carrier. Okay, whatever, it's a somewhat minor issue, I'll look over it... The other issue that started picking up within a week of delivery was that if someone tries to call my phone, or I call someone else, it just drops all of my bars and will not pick up a signal again for 15+ minutes. Now this is just downright stupid and frankly just dangerous. Imagine trying to call someone when you feel unsafe or need help, only to make your phone basically unreachable for an undetermined amount of time instead. So this phone barely worked for basic functions from the get-go. On the bright side? The picture quality is amazing. Plenty of space for apps. I could text fine. I was able to use my phone number to access my accounts, barely. It holds a charge well even through heavy use. So I kept it despite the issues thinking that would be the extent of it. Now, right after hitting three months, it suddenly just won't turn on. It continually cycles through the google startup logo. Even trying to boot it in recovery mode does nothing. Fully charged and everything. Never dropped it or damaged it, and it was always stored in a case and with a screen protector. It just has a base software/OS issue. For the price, I expected at bare minimum a YEAR of regular use. Disappointed, utterly disappointed. One of very few bad reviews I will ever get on here to write, to be honest.

I ordered this Pixel 4 as a replacement for the Pixel 3 that was sent to me locked instead of unlocked. This Pixel 4 came unlocked this time, as I wanted, and I'm going through it now to customize it. The phone is quite different from the One Plus phone I had for 3 years (too bad it got stolen).This new phone has a cheap feel to me. We'll see how it holds up over time.