Arrived in perfect condition with original box intact. The phone is good and lightweight, great for holding in a single hand. Love the pale color blue and easy unlocking with fingerprint at the back!

So I have had zero issues with the fingerprint reader. It is actually been really good for letting me in and nobody else in. I even put a case on mine and I can still reach the finger reader so I actually think it’s really great it’s much easier for me to get into my phone compared to my old one. What I like about this phone too is that it is thinner. I used to have the Moto x charge and that was definitely much wider and I didn’t realize how much more uncomfortable it is. Now when I pick that one up to try and compare to this one it’s such a beast in such a tank. Whereas this new phone it’s thinner and slimmer and can actually like fit in my palm so it’s in my hand and then it can sit nicely on my finger like if I’m holding it like cut. Which is very nice and I can reach everything on it with my thumb. The fact that the screen is the entire phone face is still giving me the exact same size as my old phone just I no longer have a big phone because it didn’t take up the whole screen it had sides on it before so I really like that this one is the whole screen and that it’s slimmer. I have a nice case on it and I have a screen protector on the front and I’m still able to use everything the same and everything is functioning fine. My only thing is yes the battery does last all day, my old phone my battery could last a couple days but it was an ex-charge and the battery was supposed to do that. But the bonus about this phone here is it does tell me if I keep continuing using it at the rate that I am it tells me about when my phone will die the estimated die time for the battery. So that’s easy for me to be like oh okay well I’m going to be going and doing this so maybe I should charge it now. But I typically only charge it at night when I’m going to sleep. it does have a spam detection for calls which I didn’t realize was a thing and I’ve had a couple phone calls like pop up but never ring and then they go away and I am notified that they were spam and then I have verified and they actually are indeed spam. So that has been really nice. I also like that I can give names to my group chats. Everything seems to be running very smoothly and fast at least faster than what I’m used to. it did take a little getting used to for me to do the back button cuz there was no back button I couldn’t figure it out but if you just hold off to the side a little bit it is actually much easier to go back and forth between things I’ve found. my screen now has five icons across compared to my old one that had only four icons across so for me that’s fine because I can see them fine I haven’t looked to see if I can change that. So if you are maybe hard on seeing that might not be a benefit but otherwise for me since I don’t have that problem this is great I really also like that I can just click on the time and date on the phone and it pulls up my calendar or the weather I don’t have to go search for a different app I just click on it on my phone and it just takes me to that app.my other favorite thing is that it is still an Android phone I absolutely love the Android app I even have my tablets in Android because I’m just so used to Android and I prefer Android over the counterpart. Like I really dislike Apple and Apple I think is so much more expensive.another fun thing is the night mode I set a bedtime for me and when it’s my bedtime if I’m staying up it goes into a black and white scale mode so everything is in black and white so then I go all right fine yep it’s bedtime. I also like the do not disturb because I can have things blocked for when I’m sleeping so my phone isn’t ringing or anything and I don’t have to remember to put it on silent it was automatically does that. Unless of course it’s emergency it is set to if somebody calls back within a 10-15 minute window that it will ring because it’s a priority call and I have that turned on. I haven’t even come close to using all the storage space that I have on my phone. Whereas my old phone I was constantly having to delete things to get a new app if I wanted to and it was very hard to do, so I like the extra space I like how fast it works and I like the thinness of it actually. As for phone calls and stuff I don’t have an issue with the speaker or the earpiece very simple to use and my camera is still working nicely I I still get really nice pictures.this one does say that it’s for all carriers and I have Xfinity mobile, and when I got the phone I checked the number against their oh is your phone compatible on the website and it wasn’t. I was very frustrated I even set up to start a new return with this but then, I was on with the people on chat and I was trying to figure it out and I even said I was going to try and go somewhere else. But here’s the thing even though that they wouldn’t help me and they kind of have some sucky customer service. I have a very cheap bill with them I just have to have my cable with them to get them and then each month it’s just I think it’s like $12 per gigabyte of data that you use and since I don’t use data I don’t have a bill each month because my phone is paid off I have nothing else going on there so I have a really great deal with them so I want to keep with them so. So before I decided to actually ship it back I pulled my chip card out of my old phone and slid it into this one here and eureka! My phone actually works really well I didn’t have to change anything with my carrier all I had to do was change my SIM card and the phone is compatible even if they tell you it’s not compatible So I would say give that a try if you do have Xfinity, and then if it works great if not I’m sorry you’ll have to look for something else considering the stage shouldn’t work but mine works and I’ve been doing it for two months now and haven’t had any disruptions with my service everything has been great and I haven’t had to change my billing at all so I have really enjoyed having this phone.I hope my review has been helpful. If it has been helpful, please hit the helpful button.

The phone itself is absolutely amazing, performance is great, even though some reviewers are saying that it is falling behind some other competitors, I haven’t really noticed any hiccups or lags while using the phone and apps almost always stay open in the background unless I open like 20 of them.I don’t really play games on my phone but I think it will handle most games with ease unless u want to play on max settings.Screen is really really good, I came from a samsung so I know what a good amoled screen feels like and this one is great, even at this resolution the image and the color accuracy is really sharp, could have been a little brighter though, but haven’t really bothered me its good enough even in the sunlight.Camera is absolutely amazing, especially at this price point, its flagship class. Night mode is absolutely amazing. Takes amazing pictures, sharp and color accurate. Video recording is great as well. The only downside can be considered the fact that sometimes when you take a pictures it takes like 2-3 second to process it, but other than that it is really really good, like one of the best.Many people say that the holepunch camera cutout is annoying, but it is in a such a spot that it disappears in use, even during watching videos and movies. I almost never notice it while watching content or browsing, unless I absolutely have to see an info that is written on that corner.Battery, the probably the only downside of this phone, you might be like why? well because it is inconsistent, it can last you with the same exact use on most days for like 6 and even 7 hours! but on others it might last 3 or 4, I don’t understand why is the battery like this, from what I have researched in background it runs some kind of android system process that bottlenecks it from time to time. But overall I would rate it 4 stars, would have been 5 if it was not like this.Fingerprint scanned is, well really really fast, almost instant, but like other fingerprint scanners, if your fingers are wet it wont recognize them, but its like this on like 90% of others phones which I have used with this feature so It doesn’t really bother me.Build quality is good, I don’t mind the plastic back because it feels really good in your hand, its smooth and not slippery, it is really nice to hold it in hand, but as most other users I have a case on it.Other google features really make this phone a good experience, for example the music recognition and others.Overall this phone is a solid 4.7 out of 5, as I said the battery can be a mix bag but other than that it is great. I would absolutely recommend it to anyone who wants a good phone, which has some good features, amazing camera, good battery life on most days, nice screen, good performance and solid, nice feel in the hand. Especially at 350$ dollars it is a steal.

I had the Pixel 4a for a month in late 2020, and I generally liked the phone. The most important part that makes this phone great is the price, $350. It’s not going to get you any top-tier iPhone 12 Pro Max or Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, but it gives you everything the general user would possibly need – a decently fast Snapdragon 730G SOC, 6GB RAM, and 128GB storage. That’s something that not even the $830 base configuration of iPhone 12 gets you.Of course, being $350 there are a few things that it misses out on compared to higher-tier phones. One of those things would be the plastic unibody build over something like a metal and glass sandwich. On a phone of this price point it’s fine, though I did have a bit of plastic creaking near the SIM slot. It was just an annoyance at worst, because the rest of the plastic build felt fine.Wireless charging is also not present, this may disappoint some that used it but it didn’t bother me cause I never used wireless charging on my iPhone 8.There’s no water resistance either, which did raise my eyebrows a bit before I bought the phone but I don’t submerge my phone in water or take it to very dusty places.One thing this does have that the $700 Pixel 5 doesn’t have is a headphone jack. So if you still use anything with a 3.5mm plug, this phone has you covered with no need for adapters! The speakers are also quite good, with one speaker on the bottom next to the USB-C port and one built into the earpiece.As for the software, it’s got three years of updates which is better than many Android manufactures, but it still won’t top Apple’s software support. I did notice a few software bugs when I used it, mainly with YouTube Vanced’s PIP mode after a certain amount of time. Restarting fixed the issue but it was an annoyance. Hopefully that was just Android 11 and that gets fixed with a future update.Battery life is also pretty decent, better than the aging battery on my iPhone 8 since I could comfortably leave it off the charger for one night. Given that it’s a small phone by today’s standards it’s not going to be a battery life king, but it’s better than the $400 iPhone SE.The size is something I loved about this phone, my hands are relatively small and I like my phone to be pocketable, which is something that I’m not a fan of with most new phones being over 6 inches in size. The 5.81-inch edge-to-edge screen Is of a similar size to my iPhone 8 and the iPhone X, thus I could easily use it with one hand and it fit well in my pockets. This is something I’m sure is greatly appreciated by those who also like smaller phones.The camera has been the definition of the Pixel phones since the first ones launched in 2016. This phone has an amazing single 12MP lens, mostly made great by Google’s computational photography software. Night mode was very nice to use, as in the scenarios I used it in it helped out take better photos at night. I’m no expert with cameras so I don’t know much about white balance, dynamic range, etc. I do like how this phone gives you one great camera as opposed to other manufacturers which give you like seven different pretty-much-useless camera sensors.Overall, this is the phone to buy if you’re on a budget of less than $500 and you want something that will fulfill all the general needs. I would suggest going for the Pixel 4a 5G version if you can afford a $500 phone as that has a second ultrawide camera lens, a faster Snapdragon 765G SOC, and as the name says, 5G connectivity. That phone will overall will give you a very very close experience to the Pixel 5, but if you don’t have that much to put down for a phone, and if you like the standard 4a’s smaller size, this phone is the way to go. I highly recommend it and I would personally pick this any day of the week over a similarly priced phone from a China brand like Oppo, Xiaomi, ZTE, Vivo, etc.

I procure and customize Android devices, specifically Google, as a little side source of income for myself. Needless to say I am surrounded by a ton of phones and about 95% of them I do not like.I gravitate toward pure Google phones because one can tweak them and make them function and operate and perform to the specific individuals needs.I have had every Google phone from the original Pixel right through the 5. This review is about the 4a so I won’t elaborate on why I dislike models past the 5. I will only say that they’re just too darn BIG.I found this phone on Amazon being sold as “used, like new” from Amazon stock and I already knew that if it’s coming directly from Amazon stock that it’s not going to be some discarded vendor phone with a attachment of a service provider or bloatware, etc. (because Amazon is careful the screen what they sell from their own stock because they stand behind it 100% 😁).Even though I have a whole bunch of phones from which to choose, I use a Pixel 4a5g as my primary phone but it started to feel a little bit too large for me and holding it just hurt my hand for lack of better description. I don’t like large phones. I always keep two primary phones and my secondary phone, that I had for almost 6 years, finally gave up so I was in the market to replace it.I wanted something smaller than the 4a5g, which I do continue to use. Google’s phones just keep getting bigger so I sought out what might still be available with Android updates, has a decent battery life, and is small and appealing and I found the 4a. I ADORE IT!I could probably write a book about all the reasons that you should buy this phone but it would take a zillion years to do so and certainly blow up Amazon’s servers SO I will synopsize.✓ It is a nice, pleasant to hold size and is very suitable and comfortable to hold for extended periods of time while texting or viewing websites or videos;✓ right out of the box you will be able to update to Android 13 and receive updates, I believe for the next 3 years;✓ it does not come with a bunch of bloatware which people usually try to get rid of by rooting their phones and therefore destroying warranty and usually screwing up their phones. Right out of the box you can customize it to perform to your personal satisfaction;✓ battery life is absolutely fantastic! On paper the battery doesn’t look like it would be so great but, au contraire, I’ve been texting and looking at YouTube videos and shopping online since 8:30 this morning (it’s 3:19 right now so that’s almost 8 hours) and my battery is still at 86% 😮! EXCELLENT!;✓ it does not come with wireless charging built in but you can purchase a wireless adapter (get “short” if you don’t want the finger print unlock covered up) for about $15 and the charging world is beautiful;✓ unlike most of the newer phones, this one came with the charger, c cord, as well as the adapter so you can zap the contents of your existing phone right smack over to your new 4a before you get done deciding on what to make for dinner;✓ phone is very responsive and does not start lagging even with multiple websites, facebook, and Amazon shopping open and active;✓ screen resolution is exceptional and does NOT force dark mode as many of the current models do;✓ easily accessible full developer mode allows you to tweak the settings so that the phone performs and looks the way YOU want it to;✓ has fingerprint unlock as well as custom bezel configuration;✓ cutout can be easily hidden for those that find it annoying as I do (on other brands of phones you’re stuck with the thing 😡);✓ camera quality is absolutely excellent for both stills and videos as well as wide and landscape modes. For those desiring a camera camera camera type of mode, I usually install “open camera” for my clients. It allows you to tweak the heck out of everything and make the phone perform as a camera… There is absolutely no need to spend ridiculous amounts of money to get one of those phones that boasts about their camera… just install that app and I can’t imagine anything else you could possibly need;I quite literally could go on for pages about what I love about this phone but it would take forever. I cannot find any flaws about it at all. I’m absolutely thrilled to have a phone that is a comfortable size and performs as I want it to.The only drawback that might even be something to be thought of is if you keep your phone for 10 or 12 years is that you are capped at 4G. BUT if you live in the United States that shouldn’t be an issue at all for the next decade. I told you that my phone of 7 years finally died. It was working beautifully at 3G. It just got worn out. I do know a bit about customizing and programming phones and that might be why my lasted so long but with a little bit of care yours should be able to last just as long and don’t be scared off by the 4G. It will last WELL into the future.I am absolutely thrilled with my purchase! If you are in the market for an unlocked fully customizable phone, and you want one that isn’t as big as a freaking cereal box sitting in front of you, this is the way to go!