hey guys it's max we just got in the brand new pixel 4a and today we're
comparing it to the iphone se and we're not only going
to be comparing your typical things such as performance and giving you my honest
first impressions of the device but we're also going to
compare things like the display quality and the brightness
speakers and other things that most people don't cover
it's been a while since we've done a phone video so hit that thumbs up button
if you guys enjoy it and make sure to stay to the end
where i'll let you know if you should buy one of these let's go ahead and get
right into it i'm going to open this up and it's interesting that this year
google actually just kept it very simple we no longer have a larger
option you just have one model six gigs of ram
128 gigs of storage which is actually quite nice for a phone
that costs 350 dollars sorry getting it out here
i like that texture it doesn't feel super high quality but it's
almost like a fake leather it's not textured but it has this little mat
slightly rubbery but also plasticy feel not too bad
let's peel that off there okay that feels
nice in the hand it's very interesting the iphone definitely feels
more premium all glass we have the aluminum on the sides
this feels like an expensive device where this feels kind of
cheap but not sucky really the buttons feel nice really nice and clicky
and it feels lighter even though if you guys look over here
it's actually slightly larger looks like it's
about the same width maybe slightly wider slightly taller
but it does feel lighter as well i had to get the previous pixel 3a this the xl
model just to compare it definitely feels cheaper this year
than the previous year i like this two-tone design i kind of wish
they stuck with that now this camera bump is updated it's larger just like a
lot of newer cameras even though it's a single one over here
compared to the sc's smaller one both look fine
and one thing you guys might notice at the top here is that the pixel 4a
has a headphone jack which is a plus in my book
of course our chargers are different lightning versus usb
type-c and the pixel does win out because it
includes an 18 watt fast charger in the box the iphone supports it
but you're gonna have to spend another 30 to 40 bucks for the charger and the
cable if you want to have fast charging that
definitely is a bummer now along with that the battery in the pixel 4a
is close to twice as large as the one in the iphone sc
but that doesn't mean you're gonna get double the battery life in real world
you'll probably get about one to two hours of extra screen on time depending
on what you're doing but that is still fairly significant now
as we're setting up the pixel 4a let's talk about the displays you guys can
right away see a big difference the iphone is still using the iphone 8
design we have this large forehead this large chin with our touch id sensor
whereas the pixel 4a has a modern design the screen fills up most of the front we
have this little cutout for the front-facing camera on the left-hand
side the pixel definitely looks a lot better
now not only that it's also using the oled display instead
of using an lcd and instead of being slightly higher
than 720p on the iphone this is actually slightly higher than
1080p now before i compare the screen brightness detail and speakers
let me mention the fingerprint readers as i showed you guys we have one on the
back like with most pixels and i do prefer that instead of having
touch id up front just because that's exactly where my hands kind of
lay my fingers just right there when i pick it up i don't have to shift down to
touch let's go ahead and set this thing up and
we'll do a little speed test as you probably know touch id is very fast
it works very well but the pixel 4 seems to be just as fast as soon as i put my
finger on the sensor even if the screen's off it opens up
let's finish off our display comparison as you guys can see the pixel 4 a's
display is larger everything on screen is a little bit
larger and i see more info at the bottom which is
nice as far as actual sharpness from normal viewing distances
even though this has a lot more pixels i can't really tell a difference
the text is sharp everything looks nice on the screen
only when i get about this close can i tell that the text is smoother on the
pixel 4a now one other thing that i noticed is
that the display has less reflections than the iphone display
and that is surprising typically most android phones have more reflection
so that is a plus and on top of that viewing angles are also
better the brightness stays better the contrast stays better if you're looking
off axis and now let's test the maximum
brightness and displays both are set to manual right now
and on some of these lower end oled displays they can't get that bright
so here we have them both actually put out a decent uh
output but it looks like the iphone is a little bit brighter
and now it's time for our speaker comparison make sure you get your best
pair of headphones so both phones have dual speakers one up top
and one down firing let's go ahead and start out with the pixel
[Music] go ahead and let me know your thoughts
down in the comment section below i'll give you guys my opinion because we are
recording this with the mic and even though it's a high quality one
this is going online the iphone se did sound better the highs were a lot
more crisp we had a little bit more bass but it was quieter overall the
pixel is louder and not only that the pixel is also
more balanced which is something you probably can't hear with um if you're
listening through youtube the iphone this is a iphone 8 design so
the bottom firing speaker is louder it doesn't sound balanced where the pixel
is balanced and overall if you guys see
this clip over here the pixel is going to give you a much
better movie viewing experience look how much larger the screen is we have an ola
display for better blacks you just really can't compare and now
let's talk about performance unfortunately geekbench 5 won't even
download on the pixel 4a maybe it's just the operating system is
too new or something like that so we are going to be using
antutu of course the iphone sc has the um a13 bionic processor top of the line
it's going to be more powerful but let's just see how much more powerful
is it as you guys could tell with this graphics benchmark that we start out
with the iphone is playing back perfectly
smoothly whereas the pixel is choppy the graphics chip is definitely
weaker and of course the screen is larger resolution
now while this runs runs let me talk about ram
the pixel 4a surprisingly has six gigabytes of ram which is great for the
price whereas the iphone has three but it
probably has better optimization and then along with that with storage
the iphone has 64 gigs of storage compared to double 128
with the pixel 4a which is also really good all right our results are in
and overall the iphone se is a little bit over
60 percent faster now let's take a look at the breakdown here
as far as the cpu score um it's actually not
that huge of a difference not as big of a difference as i expected
now with graphics you guys saw that difference when we were doing
the graphics test the iphone series graphics are more than twice
as powerful which is a massive difference uh i wish the graphics were
faster on the pixel 4. and it's using the snapdragon
730 with the g version for gaming but it's not very good now with that said if
you're a gamer i wouldn't buy the iphone se i would want to at least
get the 11 for the larger better screen now going
down to memory the iphone's memory is also faster even though it only has half
the memory and as far as the ui smoothness it is
also smoother as well now with that said with my experience
when we're moving around everything seems to be nice and fluid
i'm not getting any slowdowns or anything like that and that's probably
possibly cpu-based i'm not sure but it doesn't feel like a slow device of
course the iphone is nice and smooth and it's going to stay smooth for a very
long time and now let's talk about cameras both of these
have a single 12 megapixel camera on the back even though the
camera bump is much larger on the pixel and then on the
front the pixel has an eight megapixel camera sensor compared to seven now i'm
going to take a couple of photos for you guys and you guys
take a look at the selfie right here let me know which one looks better
and then i also have this rear camera shot and you guys let me know what you
think i have to say that i like how much wider
the front-facing camera is on the pixel 4e that's a pretty big difference that
helps if you want to take selfies with other people now as far as the
rear photo the pixel 4a is actually a little bit more detailed if we punch
in which looks nice now when we go to take a portrait shot the pixel actually
crops in two times to give you a photo that is more similar to a
telephoto lens compared to the iphone which stays
really wide as you guys can see the difference is big
and with the iphone i can get up closer to take a portrait shot
but then of course we do get some distortion it's more pleasing on the
pixel and from that far distance the iphone
actually wouldn't let me take a portrait shot it wanted me to get closer
now the pixel's portrait photo is more pleasing but it is a bummer that we have
to have that two times crop because that means that for wider shots
it makes it impossible to get both of these can also
take portrait shots with the front facing camera
but the pixel is the only one that could take portrait shots of
objects the iphone will only let you take photos of people
now we're also going to do a deep dive comparison as far as the photo quality
it's actually going to be a blind one where
i'm going to take the photos and maybe vadim will look
without knowing and give an unbiased opinion as to which one is better but
overall the pixel does seem to be more flexible with what it offers for photos
but we do have another story for video now for front
facing video both these are 1080p 30 frames per second maximum but when we
switch over to the rear cameras the iphone can
actually do 4k at 60 frames per second instead of only
4k 30 so that definitely is a bummer now
let's go ahead and test out the microphone quality
this is the front facing video quality and the microphone quality
of the iphone se this is the front-facing video quality and the
microphone quality on the google pixel 4a
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so you don't want to miss it so we just compared a ton of things
about these phones let me give you my honest opinion if
you're somebody that is not stuck in apple's ecosystem
you don't have to have ios and if you're trying to decide between these
most likely you're not stuck and you only keep your phone for say one to two
years and you end up upgrading i would go with the pixel 4a not only is
it 50 less expensive it also comes with a fast
charger which is another 30 to 40 value and along with that you
get double the ram which we're not sure how much that helps
overall how that compares but you also get double the storage which is really
nice you get a headphone jack you get a nicer
display it's oled the speakers are louder the camera
quality might be better that's just a lot of value for 350
dollars and google is making the right choice pricing it here and
giving us all these features now if you're somebody that keeps your
phone long term i'm talking about three four maybe even five years i would go
with the iphone unfortunately it is stuck with the old
design but it's a low price point to get into the apple ecosystem
and you know that it's gonna have software updates for years and years to
come most likely five years or maybe more
it's going to perform great and it's not going to let you down
of course some of the stuff is older but you know that is what it is maybe spend
some extra money on the iphone 11 which is another
great option so there you guys have it let me know your thoughts down in the
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