Google Pixel 7a review
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- 29 May 2023
Anonymous, 27 May 2023Generic stock android ? What are you even saying 🤡 🤡They said its generic, and it is.
Pixel 6 pro was an awful, frustrating experience. (owned it for 6 months which got pregressivly worse with each update that also brought more bugs, never again with a pixel). The experience is essentially an iphone (closed down, focused experience) but far worse and buggy even with their own apps (tbf its worse than pretty much most android brands).
Find it funny they recommend the nothing phone, another below par phone that uses a gimmick as a selling point and has poor software support/experience.
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- 28 May 2023
Txindoki, 28 May 2023Agreed, battery life is not the best out there, but last th... morereliable software...what a jokes
any other android phone can do the same, even better feature than plain Google
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- 28 May 2023
For the first time it is a downgrade in the budget "a" serie. Overheating, worse battery, average pictures. Repainted idea with minor flaws you may not like. Just for 35% higher price:) No thanks
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- 28 May 2023
atichko, 27 May 2023Big failure...75 hours??? Does Google really want to imitat... moreThis is not a good deal. The price diference between 7a and 7 is small. Better choose pixel 7. And that battery and slow charging are a huge deal breakers.
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- 28 May 2023
VoNR, 28 May 2023Thanks Samsung for ruining the Google Pixel lineup once again! 👏Samsung does not force google to use exynos.
It is own choice.
Google can spend billions of dollars to create own chip design team like apple or purchase chips from qualcomm/mediatek.
Or keep using exynos, the worst choice.
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- 28 May 2023
Anonymous, 28 May 2023Battery standby performance must be quite bad on your phone... moreAgreed, battery life is not the best out there, but last the entire day. It takes 1h to charge from 20 to 80%. I do not play games on it, photography and software are reliable, which are the only features I care about
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- 28 May 2023
"Detail is very good, without the watercoloring characteristic of some earlier Night mode efforts" - whaaaaat!? Night cam shots are total ..., even with the Night mode.
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- 28 May 2023
lewein, 28 May 2023The battery life is laughableThe web and video screen-on time doesn't seem that bad but it's clearly having some problem with the idle (stand-by) power consumption, dragging the overall score down. It's the complete opposite of Xperia 1 V where it posted mediocre screen-on time but managed to keep the overall score high thanks to excellent stand-by time.
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- 28 May 2023
I can get a 256GB Pixel 7 for less per month on contact right now, the 7a is instantly irrelevant.
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- 28 May 2023
Txindoki, 28 May 2023Upgraded from a Redmi Note 9s. Been using this 7a since may... moreBattery standby performance must be quite bad on your phone. Is it ? What's the SOT you're getting and how often you charge your phone
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- Dr.Vee
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- 28 May 2023
Yikes!!! I was waiting for the review to get the phone but that battery test is holding me back now. Google may lose it's market share if they don't improve on battery backup. It's high time they realise that cameras are not everything in a phone. Apple nailed it, why can't Google? 😕
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- 28 May 2023
Evening Star, 26 May 2023Despite the cons, I still like it. Everything I need to upg... moreUpgraded from a Redmi Note 9s. Been using this 7a since may 15. No regrets
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- Anonymous
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- 27 May 2023
I still can't get my head around the battery numbers. Smaller screen than 7, same chipset, ram, memory and refresh rate. Not a huge difference on web browsing but video playback is over an hour. I always expected the 90hz to eat into battery life compared with the 6a but it should match the 7. Are the modems chips the same or different?
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- 27 May 2023
Anonymous, 27 May 2023It is sharpening.
Since you mention auto 50, that is mot... moreIt is sharpening (not as much anymore as on release month) but there is a significant difference in Detail.
You can also take 200MP Photos, those are only giving more detail, but only at bright sunlight, at just daylight, the details aren't going to be better than on 50MP mode, take 3 secs to shoot, but unlike Xiaomi, it doesn't just uoscale the 50MP photo (exept it isn't daylight, then it will instashot but only upscaled 50MP).
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- 27 May 2023
CaptainChris, 27 May 2023Pixel 7a has Sony IMX787 64mp sensor, it's one of the ... more787 is successor of 686.
It is 1/1.76".
GN1 used by 7 Pro is 1/1.31"
Size difference is more than 50%.
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- 27 May 2023
Fa14bi, 27 May 2023That is correct that it is grabbing the same amount of ligh... moreIt is sharpening.
Since you mention auto 50, that is motorola.
Awful jpeg.
Dng does not even need to be edited to be better, just saved as jpeg.
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- 27 May 2023
Pixel 7a has Sony IMX787 64mp sensor, it's one of the best sensors out there. It's strange that Google got the best sensor on the smallest and cheapest device in the 7 series
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- 27 May 2023
6 cons and, at most, 3 pros but still a 4.3 average? This makes no sense. In fact most of the reviews on GSMARENA tend to average 4.2 per device UNLESS it's a lesser known company. Unfortunate.