Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this is the pixel 5a with 5g google announced this
today and it's available for pre-order now now this comes in at $449 and is available
in just one color called mostly black it looks like it has a little green tint to it as well
so if we look around the box it just says team pixel and gives a little bit of the details we'll
talk about that more in just a moment let's go ahead and unbox it so we'll take off the little
pull tabs here we'll unbox it and like i said it's available in one color and let's take a look at it
so here is the pixel itself so i don't know if you can see it on camera but there is a slight green
tint to it but it's very very slight let's take a closer look at what's in the box and then a closer
look at the phone so we have a sim card removal tool and then we have some paperwork here so let's
see what we've got we just have something that says google and it's sort of a quick start guide
as well as a little warranty card we'll set that aside in the box you do get an 18 watt charger so
if we spin this around here hopefully you can see this but it is an 18 watt charger that comes with
it and then also its usbc so it comes with that and then also comes with a usbc to usbc cable
and then a usb a to usbc cable so that you can maybe switch from a different phone now
let's take a look at the phone itself so i'll remove the covering off the display
and let's talk about what it's made of and more so the first thing is this is metal this year it's
not plastic it has a metal unibody construction on the front it has corning gorilla glass 3 according
to google and as far as its overall size it's very similar to the 4a 5g so as you can see it
looks very familiar you have your dual cameras and we'll talk more about those in a moment on
the right hand side you have a power sleep wake button that has this nice texture to it so it's
a little bumpy texture and then of course your volume rocker below that on the bottom you've
got a couple speakers and microphone or a speaker and microphone along with usbc and then on the
other side you have your sim card tray on the top you've got a headphone jack and another microphone
and you've got your little speaker here at the top of the display now let's go ahead and take
a look at the sim card tray now according to google this does not have dual sim support but
it does have a physical sim and an esim so you can use either or you can use a physical sim card it
does not have expandable storage now before i boot it up let's talk about the internal specs a little
bit so this has last year's qualcomm snapdragon 765 g in adreno 620 gpu and six gigabytes of ram
now the nice thing is it has a gigantic battery inside that's 4 680 milliamp hours so that's
a huge improvement and one of the biggest if not the biggest batteries in any pixel device
also on the front it's a 6.34 inch display 2400 by 1080 with 413 pixels per inch
and it supports hdr now it has 128 gigabytes of storage internally that's not upgradable
and it's also ip67 water resistant this year so that should help with dust or water intrusion
and it also has 802.11 abgn and ac plus bluetooth 5.0 and le now for a quick size comparison before
we boot it up here is the pixel 5 next to the new 5a so it's a little bit bigger and thickness wise
maybe a little bit thicker but it does have a bigger battery in it it's very very close though
and then next to the 4xl it's very similar in size so you can see the overall size is very very close
but as far as the general look it's basically a pixel you have similar thicknesses similar power
button layouts and everything else now let's go ahead and boot it up now we'll wait for it to boot
up and one thing i noticed just after turning it on is if i move this off axis a little bit
you can see that the screen has a little bit of a shift to a pinkish purplish color
i don't know if you can see that on camera but it is a little bit different off axis
now let's go ahead and set it up so we'll go ahead and hit start and it says just a sec and i'll skip
putting a sim card in i'll do that a little bit later so we'll skip that and we'll connect to
wi-fi now i'm connected to wi-fi it says getting your phone ready this may take a few minutes
now it's asking me if i want to copy apps and data i'll just hit don't copy for now
we'll go to the next screen it says checking info and now you can sign in with google so
i'll go ahead and do that now you have to agree to all of the terms so you can move forward so
we'll go ahead and do that and then it wants me to set a lock screen so we'll go or set a lock
pin for the lock screen so i'll go ahead and do that now i can set up a fingerprint and this
has a typical fingerprint sensor on the back just like you would expect so we'll go ahead
and hit next and then just put our finger on the fingerprint sensor and get it set up
pretty quickly here and there we go we could add another but i'll just go ahead and tap on next and
now it says continue setup or leave and get a reminder so we'll go ahead and hit continue
and it says your assistant will be right with you and if you want to use google assistant you can do
that i'll hit agree and it will recognize my voice already since i've used it before and then i'll go
ahead and hit next i'll skip setting up google pay and i won't set up anything else right now
and we'll just hit no thanks on get more tips so we'll wait just a moment and then we should
be able to get to the the lock screen or the home screen and we can save battery with dark
theme we'll just keep it on that hit next hit next it's just telling us how to use the phone
and then swipe up to get started so now we're on the main screen you'll see it has a nice
green tint to it and i haven't changed anything here we'll tap to get tips go back home and now
it switches to our weather and the date and time up here at the top so this is your typical google
home screen just like you would expect on a pixel now this has android 11 on it so let's go ahead
and take a look here and you can see it comes pre-installed with the june security update now
whether or not we get the august security update i'll have to check for updates we'll go ahead
and check and it says it's up to date so i would expect this to get an update a little bit later
to bring it up to the security level of august but right now it comes pre-installed with the june
security update and all the features that go along with that and so i'll check for that a little bit
later now this particular device has three years support minimum according to google and should be
supported for that amount of time with updates and more now as far as the overall cameras i thought
we'd take a look at those since the cameras on the back are a big selling point for the pixel
they're not really any different than the previous year you have a 12.2 megapixel f 1.7 but there's
no laser auto focus compared to the 4a 5g and then you also have a 16 megapixel ultrawide with an f
2.2 aperture they'll record in 4k 60. on the front you have a 1080p 30 camera that is 8 megapixels so
you can record 1080p video with that so i thought we'd just do a quick video with the
forward-facing camera and see what it actually looks like and see what it sounds like as well so
we'll do that and it's asking about location we'll hit done switch to video and let's spin it around
here and now you can see me on the camera so now i'm recording with the pixel 5a and this is what
it sounds like and what it looks like directly from the camera i haven't changed anything maybe
just adjusted the audio levels so you can hear it at the same level as the rest of the video
so let me know what you think about that in the comments below and i think overall it should be
a pretty nice phone this looks pretty good and you can see that the bezel is smaller than what
we had with the 4a 5g and so i'm really excited to try and use this it should get great battery life
one thing it does not have is wireless charging just like the previous year so you'll have to
use the usbc cable on the bottom i know that's not a huge deal for everyone but for some people
it may be an issue of course it also supports 5g and sub 6 but it's your typical pixel experience
it can be as customized as you want go into your styles and wallpapers and you can see you have
all the curated culture that they've just added if we go back you've got some of the newer ones
and if i can get my hands on this wallpaper i'll share that in the description below
now i've been using this for a little bit and it does seem nice and fast however you don't
get the refresh rates that you do with the pixel 5 so there's no setting or anything for 120 hertz
it's still at 60 hertz when scrolling so it is nice and smooth it's what you would expect from
all of the pixel phones but you don't get the 90 to 120 hertz bump that you get with the pixel 5.
so you don't get that experience but it is nice and fast to switch between different things such
as your settings and then back to chrome and then the alarm clock it's nice and fast overall
then of course if you want to just clear everything you can but in general it is in
the lower end price bracket so you're probably not going to have all of those premium features but it
seems pretty nice overall so far but it would take more time to figure out if it's something that is
comparable to a pixel 5 for everyday use now if there's anything else you'd like to know about
this device overall since it's pretty familiar the processor is what we would expect it's not
going to be much different than any other pixel really what we're waiting for is a pixel 6 or the
pixel 6 xl that they announced a little while ago so that will be coming out in a couple months or
maybe a month at this point and i'm looking most forward to that but for now this is a pretty good
deal at 4 49 but let me know what you think about it in the comments below again i'll try and link
this wallpaper and if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe and if you enjoyed
the video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time
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