Google Pixel 8a – Unlocked Android Phone with Google AI, Advanced Pixel Camera and 24-Hour Battery – Obsidian – 128 GB
Original price was: $499.00.$399.00Current price is: $399.00.
Price: $499.00 - $399.00
(as of Sep 27, 2024 19:06:55 UTC – Details)
Meet Pixel 8a. It’s engineered by Google with powerful security and the incredible Pixel Camera. With Google AI, you can do more, even easier – like fix photos, screen calls, and get answers.[7] And it has an all-day battery, so you have power when you need it most.[8] All at a great price.
Meet Google Pixel 8a, the Google AI phone; with the incredible Pixel Camera and top-rated security features to help protect your data[1]
Unlocked Android 5G smartphone gives you the flexibility to change carriers and choose your own data plan[2]; it works with Google Fi, Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, and other major carriers
The Pixel Camera gives you amazing photo and video quality; Google AI helps you create perfect group shots with Best Take and fix blurry images with Photo Unblur[3]
The 6.1-inch Pixel 8a Actua display is even brighter and more vibrant; it’s fast and responsive for smoother scrolling, video streaming, and switching between apps on your phone[4]
Google AI helps with everyday tasks; search anything right from the app you’re in, just by drawing a circle around an image, text, or video[5]; get a summary of emails and brainstorm ideas with Gemini[6]; and avoid spammers with Call Assist[7]
Google Pixel’s Adaptive Battery can last over 24 hours[8]; turn on Extreme Battery Saver and it can last up to 72 hours, so your phone has power when you need it most[8]
With IP67 protection and the most durable A-Series design yet, Pixel 8a can handle slips, spills, and dust[9]; it has a scratch-resistant display with Corning Gorilla Glass 3
With powerful security features, your Pixel phone helps keep your info safe; Google Tensor G3, VPN by Google, and the Titan M2 security chip give your Pixel multiple layers of security[10]
Switching to Pixel is easy; just connect your old phone to your new Pixel and transfer contacts, photos, messages, apps, and more in about 30 minutes[11]
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Customers say
Customers like the camera quality, functionality, and size of the cell phone. They mention it takes fantastic photos and videos, works well with Verizon, and is the right size. Some also appreciate the ease of setup, ease of transfer, and phone quality. However, some customers differ on the battery life and value for money.
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13 reviews for Google Pixel 8a – Unlocked Android Phone with Google AI, Advanced Pixel Camera and 24-Hour Battery – Obsidian – 128 GB
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Original price was: $499.00.$399.00Current price is: $399.00.
Sue –
Lots of advanced features at an affordable price
The Google Pixel 8a has most of the same features as the higher end Pixels at a more friendly price. Very solid. Great screen. Very fast. Features the Gemini AI system. One of the best cameras you can buy (although it lacks the zoom capacity of the higher Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro). Very easy to set up and it was easy to switch phones on Mint Mobile — just a matter of removing the SIM card from the old phones and placing it in this one (it also has eSIM capability). It was on sale for $450, unlocked. That’s great value.
Brooke Dennis –
Takes great pictures
My husband bought me one. My brother ran over his other phone so I replaced it with this one. Size is perfect. My husband has a more expensive phone but he makes me take the pictures because the quality of mine are better. It is a easy to use phone. I am so happy with this phone. Have dropped several times with not damage. My brother love the one I got him and he has managed to not run over this one. Easy to set up, if existing service just take to phone provider and they can transfer service with ease. They would rather you buy one from them, but this was significantly cheaper that the same phone at the cellular provider. Came overnight which as great. Excellent value for price.
iLLUMiNATiON BEATS –
Amazing Phone!
Got this for my daughter. She is in love with it. I have spent some time with it as well. I personally have an S23 Ultra and I think it’s the greatest phone ever made. But I do think the Pixel 8 is a close second place. For the price it’s #1. This phone takes the most amazing photos for a cell phone! Amazing , bright, crystal clear and colorful OLED display. Looks like an iPhone screen! It charges fast enough, but the batter lasts such a long time. Longer than my s23 and requires alot less energy to charge. Was impressed with the sound. Nice full sound from the speakers, even has some bass. We turned it on, plugged in the Sim card and scanned a code from the old phone and instantly it easily transfered everything from the old phone to the new one. Amazing piece of technology and the price for a brand new name brand phone is unbeatable. She is absolutely in love with it. Thanks!
Taylor –
Great entry level phone
very straightforward with the review here, the phone can do alot for how small it is. If you are going to worry about anything on this phone its the battery life and processor, its not ideal for long play on mobile games but this thing can last about 24 hours+ doing anything social media or web browsing. I recently switched to visible wireless network and it does have some issues switching between 5G and LTE alot but other than that the phone works with most major networks
Msims –
Underwhelming
Upgraded from a Pixel 3a because it was finally starting to fail and crash. It’s new, it’s fast, but in just about every other way it’s worse than the 3a was, which is absurd for a phone released in 2024.
A short quick hit list of big things that are worse than the 3a:
-runs hot; anything that takes some processing power will make this phone almost uncomfortably warm.
-fingerprint sensor. It’s no longer on the back, making unlocks awkward, and it’s much less responsive. The sensor on the front is unreasonably bright when it’s active. I have to redo my print weekly. The PIN unlock is also poorly designed, with unnecessary key presses to get through. The old swipe was so much better. This is a big one, because it makes unlocking take more attention and any use of your phone more annoying. Maybe it’ll get me to use it less at least.
-charges EXTREMELY slowly, regardless of the charger. Like an hour to go 15%? Hilarious.
-the touch screen has some randomly weird responsiveness and sensitivity? This could be a software thing I guess, but, for example, the X button to cancel directions in Maps just simply won’t work for me.
-the Bluetooth is slower to connect; to pair with my car it typically fails at least twice.
The good? The camera is great, and it’s minimal on bloatware. Overall I just can’t believe it’s worse than my phone from 2019. I chose it over some better deals on some older pixel models because of the long-term updates, but with how poorly the charging and heat are when it’s brand new I’ll be amazed if it lasts that long. This will be my last Pixel.
William J. Alvini –
Powerful device with great AI integration
I upgraded from a pixel 6. This phone has a brighter clearer screen and is faster. Apps open right up and the AI features in the camera help to take great pictures.
Karlie –
Battery life is AMAZING
My last phone I had to charge 3 times a day….this phone I can go 2 days between charges! Love this phone!
The only cons I see so far are….the speakers to me feel very echo-y, and the fingerprint unlock almost never recognizes your fingerprint.
LB –
Perfect for my needs
I like everything about this phone, but I use it more as a phone and lite computer. I never thought about buying my phone through Amazon, always from the phone companies. This is much better. I’ll probably always buy my phones 1 year behind. Better than my old phone and without the noise of sales people. I do like the Pixel more than my Samsung Note 20. The pixel is smaller and since I use Google apps it made things easier for me. I may feel different if I move away from Google. Some folks use phones as their primary internet device, I suspect the view is too small if that’s how you use it.
Nancy –
cheap price. lots of memory and the pic quality surpasses my Galaxie s20. didn’t want to be on a plan and this phone is well organized. instructions to transfer all messages and data from old phone was so easy. so many features, i just wanted a simple phone but this exceeds my expectations. no need for a pixel 9, this pixel 8 has everything and the price is so low. I chose monthly equal payments without interest for 6 months. couldn’t go wrong with that offer from amazon
Susan Maude –
I like All the features that are in the phone.!!!
Mohammad Ibrahim Salaria –
The main reason I got this phone is the promise of 7 years of OS updates.
The size and weight of this phone are like a bit more than what I would call comfortable, even tho it is the smaller one among its siblings. The camera is great, even at 8x zoom. Night photos were awful at first but by it improved greatly by increasing the aperture open time to 6s from 3s. Astrophotography is just wow. Pictures look better in the gallery than in the camera so it’s post-processing more than hardware but hey, as long as I get crisp shots.
Fingerprint sensor is not good. Often doesn’t recognize my prints and works slower than my iPhone 6s I just switched from. Someone on reddit said to register the same finger twice but it didn’t help much.
I was concerned about the battery because the one on my 6s was awful and I didn’t want to care about conserving battery on a regular day ever again. This phone has performed beyond expectations in that. Gets me 24 hrs from 80% – 20% with regular use and 36 hrs for the same drop on light days. Let’s see if this battery quality stays the same with time.
I didn’t notice any heating except for the first time I charged it when both the phone and the adapter got considerably warm. Never lagged, performance is snappy but I don’t qualify as a heavy user with games or anything.
PLEASE bring back the 3.5 mm audio jack. I like wired earphones but now the charger and earphones have to share the same USB-C port and I also need to buy new earphones.
Also there’s no option to change the system font which is a bummer because I wanted nastaleeq script for displaying Kashmiri language.
Micah C. –
The camera is great, the hardware seems really fast to use with no lag but I was trying to store it in the box that it came with and I thought its on a hinge I can easily open the box and use the phone but no it falls 2 inches off of a small box that I had and it looked like it made a pinsize scuff on the silver plastic around the phone and thats really not what I was expecting for the quality of the materials because it fell on wood with paint, it wasn’t metal or tile or anything like that what, should I of bought a case protector for the phone? no this phone is going to get damaged as its used, the monitor I use got scratched because something fell on it, my desk is scratched, this doesn’t say its cheap enough to get damaged, please pay less to get photos this high quality if thats a problem for you or buy a case protector which is a good idea but thats after its terrible. These are so expensive but there treated like scratch technology. After using it for a couple days I can say the camera is great but I did think it needed a better face for the video capture but thats one of the small things you notice about cameras, they may look better in person than the camera for video capture meaning that you need a really attractive face or its a character and what features do you like about the character and what you don’t, its one of things about the technology that I really found to be one of the potential problems because real life interactions are usually better but for photos I was thinking these are better than video capture.
After really looking at the image quality I think its lacking in comparison to an IMAX for daytime photos and the video capture in 4K didn’t quite meet my expectations for film, I wouldn’t be using this for filming Planet Earth, a huge amount of data in the imagery that was non existent, not as good as the photographs at 8.3MP at 4K. These are great for using if you don’t have an expensive camera but don’t expect it be a replacement for the film industry. Comparing the video quality to someone elses it did look like mine was out of focus, it does seem to be how I was panning the camera that it was going out of focus or something, the quality didn’t really look worse but there was some motion blur.
Really looking at the image quality for distance photos I needed better quality images, im feeling like I needed a better camera and when compared to a less expensive smartphone these are great images but thats only this much better for distance photos and yhea there better selfie images of faces but its also a different style of quality, the faces look different, they look like completely different people being photographed and that means you might like how the person looks with a different phone because of the difference.
After using the phone for enough time to determine if I needed a case protector, ive decided it almost feels like if I was using it alot and not being as careful id definitely need to get one but so far it doesn’t seem like im going to drop this phone, Ive not used it enough in a way id need case protector but im sort of feeling like id need one, im using the box it came with and that seems sufficient for storing it but it could use a case protector or something else to store it in but it seems like an extra cost until its used in a way that it would feel like it needed one for sure but im not using it quite like that so im ok for now but it does feel that way. I don’t wanna replace it or if there was enough damage that it didn’t work id need it, im already feeling like its not for any fast movements, I can probably use it without mostly but as soon as I start using it in a certain setting I need a case protector, like im already feeling like I want to buy one just so its there to use if I needed one.
I found where the camera is lacking for photos and that is anything to do with distance and leafs or bright sunlight shining at the camera somewhat as in it didn’t look better than a smartphone less than half the price but for most photos it does work and it doesn’t have any effect of something being tall. The quality of the images does still need to be better for a photographer, id consider upgrading to a better camera at this part of my experience with the phone but it does show enough detail to be impressed with the level of detail.
After quite of bit use with this camera im really looking for a higher quality image, im quite satisfied with the closeup photos and the distance are quite good to but if you looked at the photographs from the most expensive cameras you would be looking for better image quality. It really struggles to look the same as the eyesight. I realized what it was that wasn’t quite there after really examining the photo quality is that you need to take professional photos with a PhaseOne or something similar to it, the Huawei smartphone cameras take great photos and so do the Pixel phones but the file size is completely different, these are fantastic images with the smartphones but your comparing them now.
What I found somewhat of a complication with previewing the larger non smartphone cameras is that theres alot of settings and options on them that you may not understand at first making smartphones the easiest decision for actually taking photos but the need to see the the highest quality image is there in my mind.
I am finding that if you want to zoom in after you take a photo it is to blurry and that is even from two feet away so it seems to be that there is interest in taking higher quality photos than this. I was looking at it like it was important for that to be better or you’d need to take a macro photo.
Looking at it from the perspective of thickness in the image of the detail, I can’t feel these enough even though the image quality is really good, there not 3d, its a very flat image and you’ll notice that with the really high mega pixel cameras it has the right amount of detail and this was enough but it also needed additional detail, its reaching the distance but its not quite there yet.
Muhammad Omair Ali –
Nice, I like the product and working good