Customer Ratings & Reviews

I've been using this phone for a few months now, and I'm thoroughly impressed with its performance and features. due to its design, it gives me a premium feel. The phone is comfortable to hold and use with one hand. The 6.1-inch OLED display is stunning. Colors are vibrant, blacks are deep, and brightness is more than sufficient, even in direct sunlight. The 90Hz refresh rate makes it feel smooth and responsive. The latest Google Tensor G2 chip makes Multitasking seamless, apps open quickly, and there's no lag even with demanding games. The camera on the is exceptional. Photos are having excellent quality and color accuracy is amazing. I like Magic Eraser and Real Tone features. The phone is clean, fast, and free of bloatware. The smart features like Google Assistant, Call Screen, and Now Playing are incredibly useful. Overall, the phone is outstanding and offers excellent value for its price.

At $375, you'd be hard to pressed to find a better phone. My previous phone was a $1,300 Sony Xperia 1 III. It punches WAY above it's weight, with flagship performance and low to mid entry level price. Performance is smooth - older games run beautifully, and the cleanest version of Android you can get means very little background resources being leeched. The OLED display is fantastic, very crisp with vivid colors. My Sony Xperia 1 III had a 4K 120hz OLED panel, and I barely notice a difference. 128GB of storage may not seem like much (I dropping down from 1.25TB...) But after some time I've realized it'll be quite long before that becomes an issue. Coming from a $1,300 enthusiast phone, the camera has left me floored. The software assisted photos go toe to toe with the photos I took for with my old phone. You absolutely will not find a better camera phone at this price. It likely beats many flagships. Battery life has been decent - not perfect, more than serviceable. I can get through the whole day without needing to touch power save mode, even with the 90hz refresh rate on. The phone is also quite compact, it's very pocketable and I'm quite pleased to have taken a step back in size for a phone that's easier to handle. All in all, this phone is phenomenal. It goes toe to toe with phones $1,000 more expensive, and I wish I would have looked into the Pixel A series sooner. The sale ends on 2/24, and at $375, this is absolutely the best value on the Android market right now.

The phone is great so far. Build quality is excellent and Android runs very smoothly. I need to get used to some of the screen controls as they're different from my previous Samsung. The fingerprint reader sometimes doesn't work, but that's a minor issue which I've also had on other phones. Display is incredibly vibrant, which is perfect for gaming and videos. The camera is phenomenal and better than all my previous Androids. Battery life seems to be decent and the phone charges quickly. Only drawback is you need to purchase a separate 30W USB-C charger, as only a USB-C cable is included in the box (unless you have a Macbook USB-C charger on hand, which will also work). Overall this may be the best Android phone I've ever purchased, so I would definitely recommend it.

I think it’s a nice phone. Good size. Good sound. Responsive. Takes great photos. Easy to use. I like it. I bought an android phone cost me 900. This would have been better choice. They play around with a lot of wallpapers, but that’s a fun of having a phone. Reliable, but you want colorful and fun and uplifting and something that represents you and you can find you on this phone. The other phone had a lot more on it like a pen. I don’t use it. Be realistic. You need a phone? This is good. Out of 10, I give it a 10.

Got this Pixel because of the great specifications for the price. The camera takes great pictures and is smooth. The regular Pixel7 has a slightly shorter battery life which made this the right choice.

the best Google phones to buy nowAd1. It has a lot of amazing features, such as the advanced Pixel camera, the telephoto lens, the 5G connectivity, and the fast wireless charging2. You can compare the specs and features of different Pixel models here.

Purchased this as a Christmas gift for a relative who had the Pixel 3a for a long time and finally needed an upgrade. I've also had the 3a since 2019. He says this phone is easy to use and has a lot of storage space. It has the same setup us the previous models, so there wasn't a huge learning process to use it. It takes a while to charge, but then the battery lasts way longer. This was an issue he was experiencing with his previous phone, so he's happy that the new phone's battery lasts all day. The camera quality is excellent. I notice a lot of photographers gravitate towards Pixels. I think Pixels are great for both personal and business use. It's basically a tiny computer. I might buy one for myself or the newest 8 model later on, but my 3a still works fine. Google makes good phones.

Amazing camera as shown in the photo ,also has a great screen. It is a great deal for 350 brand new.

Good Performance Device Awesome quality pictures 10/10

Best midrange Android phone you can buy. It’s not cluttered with duplicate apps like the other brands, and it’s guaranteed to get updates for a reasonable amount of time into the future. I do wish the screen was a little brighter outdoors in direct sunlight, and the back of phone does show fingerprints, but those are very minor gripes. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a decent, affordable, Android phone.

$65 dollars less than other stores with discounts and earned credits. Now if I can just learn how to use all of the features, and find stuff that works differently from my previous (8 year old) phone

Google Pixel 7a has excellent camera, smooth transition from any Android Phone users, outstanding battery life, and seamless setup process. Its battery life stands out, allowing for heavy usage throughout the day without needing to recharge frequently. The camera capabilities, including Night Sight mode, are highlighted for their quality in various lighting conditions. The Pixel 7a offers a fantastic user experience at an affordable price, making it a compelling choice for those seeking reliability and top-tier camera features.

With the price of phones ever skyrocketing as the features and specs included continue to plateau, mid-range phones are an increasingly attractive prospect for all but the most extravagant of spenders. Keeping that in mind, the Google Pixel 7a is an excellent value proposition. Though it is, of course, a step down from the Pixel 7, the discounted price may be enough to offset the compromises buyers would be making and for those in the market for a mid-range versus high-end phone, the 7a is a no-brainer. Upon unboxing the phone, my first impressions are great. The packaging is minimal and there is no plastic, which is fantastic. Google seems to have leaned hard into angling towards sustainability in its approach with the 7a, as the 7a is also made of recycled materials. There is no power brick, which is unfortunate but not unexpected at this point, and there is very little in the box — a SIM card removal tool, USB-C to USB-A adapter, and a USB-C to USB-C cable sit under the Pixel 7a itself. The color I received was the charcoal color, an understated black that there is little to say about. The back is made of plastic instead of the glass seen in higher-end flagships, but to my delight, the phone doesn't feel cheap or plastic-y. Clean, sleek, and even stylish: the 7a manages to look quite sophisticated, lacking the speckled look that recycled tech products often seem to have. Other colorways include snow (white), sea (light blue), and coral (a vivid orangey pink, the same hue as seen in Google's Nest devices). Using the phone is, generally, quite pleasant. I tested it for over a week and was happy to see that there were few bugs or issues in day-to-day use, which was not my experience with older Pixel devices (my last one being with a Pixel 3). When I did experience bugs, they were relatively minor ones like the phone freezing while switching between apps. I had no issues with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity either and Google's VPN worked surprisingly well, even with apps and sites that I fully expected to run into issues with, such as Netflix or banking sites. That said, I would like to see more functionality added to the VPN service, such as options for changing server location, but having a VPN so readily available is surprisingly useful when on the go and connecting to public networks. Battery life is great and aided further by the Adaptive Battery feature. For power-hungry users, the Extreme Battery Saver mode will likely be a life-saver but I found that I got through the day safely without needing to top up and with juice to spare. The phone itself feels snappy and the OLED screen is vivid and does an incredible job of pushing the colors. The Smooth Display setting enables a 90Hz refresh rate which is a neat option to have in helping animations and scrolling feel more fluid and smooth, but it comes at the cost of battery drain and I found the 60Hz default more than adequate for everyday use. Vanilla Android is smooth and the lack of bloatware is a breath of fresh air. Pixel phones also are in a fortunate position when it comes to security and software updates, being poised to receive security updates for a guaranteed five years and likely to receive software updates for a longer period than other Android flagships might. Speaking of security, the biometric security on the 7a is also a little more expansive than on other mid-range devices; offering both face unlock and fingerprint unlock is a great boon, and both unlock the phone quickly when activated. One area where this phone is truly unique is Google's AI features. Note that some of the photo editing tools are rolled out to Google Photos, which means that they can be used on any device, including non-Google and even non-Android devices. Still, I found that the photo editing tools were largely hit or miss for me; magic eraser and camouflage were neat in theory but I couldn't see myself using them to do things like remove entire people from a landscape like in the example photos used online. What I found far more interesting were the Pixel-exclusive AI features like the call features, live translation, and live caption, which I truly do think could be game-changers for how people use their phones (with a bit of polishing). Other AI features seemed to range wildly in real-world applications; At A Glance, for example, was pretty practically useful, but I found the AI-suggested apps to be a miss. Another area where Pixel phones shine is in photography. The Pixel 7a is great at photos and videos, especially in daylight. The 7a does lack a telephoto lens, meaning it relies on digital zoom for magnification. This does unfortunately have an impact on photo quality, especially past the 2x and 4x magnification point, but beyond that, the 7a does generally live up to the Pixel reputation of fantastic cameras. Sadly, however, the 7a is not a perfect phone. Some issues are fairly minor and easy to overlook. The plastic back, while sleek and pretty to look at, is a fingerprint magnet. Within minutes of handling it, it already looked greasy and was coated in fingerprints. The phone itself is large and heavy, especially as a woman with smaller hands, being larger and heavier than even some flagships. I also found it slightly annoying that occasionally, for whatever reason, biometric unlock wouldn't work and I would still be required to input my pin, which I haven't experienced with other devices. The placement of the fingerprint scanner on the screen also seemed suboptimal for my preferences; having it on the power button makes it more natural to use, though with face unlock as an option it becomes less of an issue. Some issues might be enough to make a person in the market for a new phone look to the Pixel 7 instead. For instance, while the speakers are decent and, being stereo, have a good amount of balance, they have mediocre audio quality at best and come off as tinny, particularly when listening to music. This can be almost painfully tinny when the volume is maxed out. The screen also gets fairly bright indoors and accordingly, I found that adaptive brightness worked brilliantly in indoor settings, but outdoors the brightness was middling, and I wished that there was just a bit more brightness to make using the phone outdoors easier. Charging is also abysmally slow, taking around 2 hours to reach a full charge from 0%; this is mitigated in part by having such a decent battery life that you likely won't need fast charging anyways, but it is still worth noting. Other issues are not exactly pressing enough to make one turn away from the Pixel 7a nor easy to overlook. One such issue is the "Real Tone" feature, which purports to help capture the skin tones of people of color "beautifully and accurately." I am Asian with medium-tanned skin and found that the camera sometimes struggled to do so with my skin tone, especially in low light conditions and most notably when using the front-facing/selfie camera, where it lightened my skin. The selfie camera also seemed to make selfies come out "soft" despite turning off face retouching. After fiddling with settings for a half hour, I couldn't seem to figure out how to make it stop lightening my skin or softening my photos taken with the front camera. The frustration and irony in the well-intentioned Real Tone feature not being able to manage not lightening a person of color's skin were not lost on me and although I loved the photos taken with the back camera, I can't help but feel some bitterness that I cannot for the life of me get the front-facing camera to take a photo of me that looks like me on a device that's supposed to "beautifully and authentically" reflect people of color's skin tones. Another issue is that the 7a runs noticeably hot with even light to moderate use, like browsing the web or taking photos, which does make me worry about its overall health and the battery's longevity. It never gets scalding and I haven't seen a notification that the phone is overheating yet, but I do worry that with more intense use such as video calls this will become a more pressing concern. Ultimately, the 7a performs well as a mid-range contender. There is nothing it does horribly at, and even areas where it excels. When compared to a Pixel 7, there are few reasons to shell out more for the 7 when the 7a holds its own so well. The issues the 7a does have aren't dealbreakers and are acceptable compromises in this category, or can be addressed through software updates in the future. It is also significant to note that in daily usage, there were more positives than drawbacks and that using the 7a was a largely enjoyable experience. I highly recommend giving the 7a a try, especially for the more casually oriented shutterbugs among ye.

This phone has lots of useful features. Excellent value for the price.I love the photo edit erase to edit option.

I like almost everything. The only issue I have is minor. I just have retrain my brain...but it's been more than a month and I still hit the wrong button thinking I'm raising the volume. The volume and home buttons are in opposite locations compared with most other android phones I've dealt with. Most phones the 'longer volume' button is the top side button and the home button is below that. Google is opposite. Like I said it's minor. Too bad we can't assign those two procedures (up volume and down volume) to separate buttons of our choice.

An amazing upgrade from pixel 4xl. The software updates and cameras are why I'm on board with pixel.

It’s a amazing phone I highly recommend, it works perfectly and I’ve had no issues with it. Best Buy is a perfect place to get things you desire that come in MAGNIFICENT condition. 100/10 highly recommend. No scratches or anything and I got the good condition one.

It’s the best phone for this price, the camera it’s spot on, the processor is fast The photo was taken on a cloudy day and it’s very good

It's an awesome phone. Fast, durable, and the perfect size. Very pleased with my purchase! Thanks Google and Best Buy!

We had already been next door at Verizon and they were clueless. They did send us to Best Buy which was nice! We had the best, knowledgeable person ever!! Fabulous experience. Both my son and I needed new phones, and we are very happy!!