Weekly poll results: the Google Pixel 8a is too expensive right now

19 May 2024
Right now, people would rather get the Pixel 8 instead. This price will start falling in the coming months, of course, so attitudes will change.

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I think Google should adopt Sony's smartphone release window by launching the most expensive Pixel Pro and the cheapest Pixel A first, followed by the vanilla Pixel. That way, the Pixel A can still serve its relevance in the longer term. Launching the least expensive model months after its more expensive premium siblings launched isn't the right idea. It's the same story with Samsung's Galaxy S FE line. You could easily get a secondhand vanilla S or S Plus the moment the brand new S FE has launched.

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    • Jimbob
    • 3xE
    • 19 May 2024

    With tradein its about right. It will ofcouse drop to peanuts in a few months as usual.

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      • Streednerd
      • ncs
      • 19 May 2024

      Here we can buy one for €285

      Such a steal!

        Seems you guys at gsmarena don't know how to interpret results? Most voted was "No, there are better mid-rangers out there" with 860 votes and your conclusion is that “Not at this price seems to be the main takeaway" with ...sorry what?

        The main takeaway is people not gonna buy the 8a because there are better alternatives in this moment. Jeez...

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          • Anonymous
          • fCE
          • 19 May 2024

          $400 in USA and $636 here, did Google make mistakes while pricing this across regions

            The Pixel 8a definitely needed to be sold at $400 for the 128GB version and $450 for the 256GB version. The other problem is that the Pixel 8 just isn't good enough, it doesn't have enough points of differentiation to justify buying it over the Pixel 8. If the Pixel 8 had 1-120Hz LTPO, the Pixel 8 Pro's autofocus for the selfie and the Pixel 8 Pro's ultrawide; and the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro had 256GB of UFS 4.0 storage as a base and had ultrasonic fingerprint sensors that were also larger, then the Pixel 8a would seem different enough. As it stands, while the Pixel 8a has great cameras for a mid-ranger (barring certain phones like the Vivo V30), it's too expensive to actually be one, and the Pixel 8 is now sold low enough that sometimes you can absolutely even get it for cheaper than the Pixel 8a. This would've massively benefited from an aggressive pricing strategy like I've described, there's huge potential for it to be another Nothing Phone 2a.

            Of course, it isn't the Nothing Phone 2a, and that is precisely because Google doesn't actually want to compete that much. It's that lack of will that always lets them down, but that's due to them not wanting to alert antitrust over their monopolistic practices. If Google wanted to, they absolutely could make a big dent in the Western market and become the new Huawei (without the sanctions of course). They just don't want to.

              7 years of software updates on a device with 8GB ram sounds ambitious imo

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                • JoXim
                • Li}
                • 19 May 2024

                I think that this will be the last one in Pixel A series.
                Pixel 9 will, basically, be new 9a.


                  Yeah there's way better phones out there too for this price.

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