Stefan Mileschin

After months of rumors, the Google Pixel 3a is finally available. It’s a more affordable take on the company’s flagship phone, with corners cut in all the right places. It’s 90 percent of the Pixel 3 at half the price.

It still offers most of the things that make the Pixel 3 special: an excellent camera, Pixel-specific Android with updates directly from Google, the crazy-fast and convenient rear fingerprint sensor, and meaningful software features—all for a starting price of $399 for the Pixel 3a ($479 for the 3a XL).

Of course, at half the price, it’s also missing a few things: wireless charging, waterproofing, “premium” materials, and a top-of-the-line processor. But what it lacks in so-called “high-end” features, it makes up for in…well, everything else.

The most exciting part of the 3a is that it still offers the Pixel 3’s best feature: that killer camera. Since most of the magic is in the post-processing on Pixel phones, Google was still able to offer things like portrait mode, Night Sight, and other excellent camera features in the 3a.

Before we get into the nitty-gritty, it’s worth mentioning that this review focuses on the smaller of the two 3a phones. Since the 3a XL is basically the same phone with a bigger screen, however, you should be able to apply everything said to it, as well.

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