Google Pixel 6a review
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- Mobile18
- gDL
- 30 Aug 2022
Received the android 13 update yesterday. Fingerprint is not recognising my fingers anymore (1 success / 20 attempts ) it doesn't matter how I put my fingers on screen.
Bad. Otherwise good battery life.
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- Anonymous
- nid
- 30 Aug 2022
Doomed to 128gb, BlueCancer is only option to listen music, spycloud is also offered by google.
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- Bummer
- mFd
- 30 Aug 2022
Imagine the battery life off it had 120Hz refresh rate for me to phone is a perfect midranger
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- Anonymous
- StU
- 30 Aug 2022
vs88, 26 Aug 2022You guys didnt mention in review that ultrawide camera is f... morea lot of phones ultra wide is fixed focus, yes there are phones with autofocus ultra, but it's not the websites fault you can't research for yourself
- NeonHD
- 6Fi
- 28 Aug 2022
Rikkon, 28 Aug 2022So you are saying that you can't charge your phone at ... moreNo, that's not what I'm saying. I am saying it's unreasonable not to have fast charging at this price point.
> Most power banks don't deliver ultra fast charging
Lol what, do you not know there are 65W and 100W power banks? And they are very common.
> Those scenarios are not realistic at all.
Yes they are, you want more scenarios? I'll give you more:
1) When you're at a conference call and your phone dies. Give five minutes and you can be free from the wire for the rest of the call.
2) When you're using your phone for VR and it dies. Fast charging is not mandatory but greatly appreciated.
3) When you're at work and you use your phone as the point-of-sales system. A customer comes to order something but you find your phone battery is dead. Assuming you have 65W or higher charging, only 3 minutes can give you enough battery to process the order and multiple other people's orders before charging again during your lunch break. Because it would be highly inconvenient to be tethered to a wall outlet when your responsibility is to walk around the store to show people the products.
The third scenario is extremely detailed because it is extremely realistic. I don't know how more realistic it can get than that.
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- Anonymous
- s7C
- 28 Aug 2022
Razvan, 25 Aug 2022Does somebody knows about the SAR value of this Pixel? Some... moreyou can look it up on the FCC website. A4RGX7AS
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- Rikkon
- kmw
- 28 Aug 2022
NeonHD, 09 Aug 2022> 𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘥? I'm not s... moreSo you are saying that you can't charge your phone at work or in your way to work if you forget to do it overnight... But then you can fast charge your phone during a concert? How? Most power banks don't deliver ultra fast charging. Those scenarios are not realistic at all.
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- vs88
- SXw
- 26 Aug 2022
You guys didnt mention in review that ultrawide camera is fixed focus ?? Or so it does appear when I use it...
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- Razvan
- nyf
- 25 Aug 2022
Does somebody knows about the SAR value of this Pixel? Someone who bought it already perhaps. Thanks!
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- Anonymous
- StU
- 24 Aug 2022
Anonymous, 24 Aug 2022Which model of anker charger you use? I honestly don't know the model...it's a nano or something...I will have to check when I'm home
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- Anonymous
- XVS
- 24 Aug 2022
Anonymous, 23 Aug 2022actually my anker brick charges rapidly ....I don't ti... moreWhich model of anker charger you use?
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- Anonymous
- StU
- 23 Aug 2022
Mike, 22 Aug 2022Google pixel fast charging only with original google brick,... moreactually my anker brick charges rapidly ....I don't time it because I have more than a few minutes free every day....so I just leave it while having a dump and shower in the morning.
battery lasts me easily 2 days with my current usage
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- Mike
- sr$
- 22 Aug 2022
Google pixel fast charging only with original google brick, with any other charging is slow, so you can't just take any other charger
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- Kerr
- 7@E
- 16 Aug 2022
Ivan, 15 Aug 2022I need to help my better half choose her next phone and she... moreI have pickier needs and the 6a is serving me just fine so go ahead with it. The camera is more than decent, and the battery life really improves after a while of AI learning. In fact the whole Google experience, with the Tensor, puts this phone above the rest in this price range with different compromises.
Go for it
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- Ivan
- JKW
- 15 Aug 2022
I need to help my better half choose her next phone and she is a tough customer to please. Some of the main conditions she has (which make finding the right device difficult) are a decent IP rating (IP67 or 68) and a reasonable price. She would also like a decent camera and otherwise she isn't too tough (it doesn't have to be blazing fast; a decent battery would be good, but she usually isn't a heavy user and she has, more or less, given up on expandable storage). This mostly ticks the right boxes, although it's slightly pricier than would be ideal.
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- Ivan
- JKW
- 15 Aug 2022
@GSMArena I hope that you'll be able to add the 6a samples to your photo compare tool soon!
Also, I am curious about the battery life, in the sense that I wonder if the regular 6 is worth a revisit, although maybe it's that 60Hz screen that's giving the 6a such a boost in browsing time.
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- gDr
- 11 Aug 2022
Grey Wolf, 07 Aug 2022Lol, 18W charging speeds (and they don't even give the... moreAs a Pixel 5A owner, I can say that charging a 4680 mAh battery with an 18W charger is not an issue at all.
The phone easily lives from early morning till late night. You only have to charge it overnight, when it doesn't matter if it takes one or two hours for a phone to get charged.
P.S. I had used a Realme supporting 65W charging for a few months and can't say it made any difference for me.
The real issue was that it wasn't a PD 65W charging but some proprietary 10V 6.5A one, so I had to carry a stock charger brick and thick USB-A-to-C cable with me all the time.
Having a Pixel, I enjoy having one PD charger and a couple of high-quality C-to-C cables for my laptop, smartphone, business headset, earbuds, and even Bluetooth mouse. Also, the same Baseus 65W power bank works for them all.
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- S3c
- 10 Aug 2022
One major feature of this phone is that if you have a band-aid on your finger, you can still unlock the phone by pressing your nose on the fingerprint reader.
Or someone else's nose. That works fine too.
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- Kerr
- 7@E
- 10 Aug 2022
I'm really enjoying this phone. The Tensor chip performance like night and day better than previous A series phones (especially my old 3a XL) and probably most phones at this price point. The battery life was worrying early doors but has improved markedly, the adaptive battery taking hold I guess. The camera is still the best at this price point, and I honestly don't see much difference in camera quality from the bigger cameras in the 6/6 Pro barring the Pro's zoom.
And I, and probably 99% of consumers, really don't care if the screen is 'only' 60Hz, Tensor still makes it fly well enough. The base iPhone 13 is Apple's best seller 13 series phone and nobody moans about its 60Hz lol.
The FP sensor could be better, a regress from the rear ones, but has been good enough for me. Google have made the right cuts for a great and fast phone.
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- S2D
- 10 Aug 2022
Aan2007, 08 Aug 2022S21FE is huge and its camera is slow shit, usable maybe for... mores21 fe has way better hardware and software than this junk,build for google by unknown chinese factory,you are delusional about pixel phones ,they are all junk which taking place in the repair shops across half of the europe