Customer Ratings & Reviews

This phone is amazing! Get most of the iPhone features at third the price!

Overheats, shuts your alarms off at the most random times, poor quality overall. It just does what it wants. I only bought this phone because it was cheap and I needed something fast. Not bad for someone who wants the basics but I feel like I asked for the bare minimum and still got the worst. Can't wait to go back to Samsung because they would never.

Fast and reliable facial recognition login, a definite improvement over the 7A.

Super fast shipping. This phone is a lot of bang for the buck. Its great.

great mid range phone with plenty of cool features.

Love the Pixel 8a so far. I upgraded from the Pixel 6. It's so much faster.

Love this new phone: Pixel 8a. There's so many things I do with my photos!

Its a half nice phone but was too small for me, i can hardly see the keypad to send text. So for that reason i'm going to return and get the 8pro.

Very nice phone. It’s fast, fluid and the camera is great.

It is a phone, a new phone... replacement for 6a. All phones are same.

It is the best phone I have ever had, good quality, good price

Great Phone, excellent customer service at Ahwatukee Store in AZ

Good phone, light weight and fast. Good energy conservation

Decent phone for the price and the stock android experience is really better

Got it with a special and no regrets. Great 1st phone and reliable company.

Phone works well and the employee helping me did a great job.

The Pixel line has been my go to ever since they switched from the Nexus. Stock Android with the quickest updates is one of the most important qualities that keeps me in the family. Every phone in my household has been a Pixel, and it was time to upgrade again. Battery life and overall sluggishness on the 4 year old phone being carried around had finally gotten unbearable. Enter the Pixel 8A. Coming from a 4A, the initial setup process couldn't have been easier. Right away, I get asked if this is going to be for a child, because there are new family monitoring and permission options available. Since my daughter isn't quite old enough for a phone of her own yet but is really close to getting annoying enough about it to warrant one, I found that the protection options looked reasonable enough to feel safe if and when I decided to give in to the incessant whining. Chose to copy over the settings and apps from the old phone instead of setting up like new. From there, it was just select or deselect the apps from the old phone to transfer over. There were a lot of outdated or no longer necessary apps in the list that were forgotten about. After about an hour's worth of downloads and finagling, the phone was ready to go. I loved that I didn't have to reset any of the alarms or UI settings (I just can't with the gesture UI, I need the menu buttons). The phone itself feels pretty good. Not too thin, and has a good bit of weight to it that keeps it from feeling flimsy or cheap. It's not so big that I can't reach the left side of the screen with my right thumb when carrying one-handed, which is great for when I have to hit the back button (see above comment about gesture UI). The back stripe where the camera juts out does make me worry a little about placing it on its back, but the cases I see available (haven't picked one out just yet) seem to account for it. The IP67 rating on it means I don't have to be so worried about water and dust. And this phone supports wireless Qi charging, which is slower than plugging in, but is just cool to have another option, especially now that tables and lamps and things are getting Qi charging built in, plus it keeps the need to have cords and chargers all over the place. One of the biggest reasons for getting the 8A is the camera, and it did not disappoint. Pictures are crisp and clear, and pulling up the camera with the power button double click is speedy and lag free. This is one of the biggest and most important features for me, because there are so many moments that I wouldn't have been able to capture without being able to quickly whip out the phone and snap a quick pic immediately, instead of navigating lists of apps or even bothering with the screen lock. Google's advanced picture editing, that is heavily touted as being powered with AI, is really impressive. Being able to easily and seamlessly erase people and objects from the background without having to use a massive photo editing suite on my PC saves a lot of hassle, and I suck at photoshop. The feature that lets you select the best face during a group photo can save a pic from being ruined if someone was caught blinking and you didn't notice it until afterwards. What's more is the AI editing extends to videos, so you can remove background noises. This is way harder to do manually and takes a lot more software to do on PC, and Google is just doing it with their trained robotic monkeys (or whatever the heck AI really is). The 8A doesn't get all of the features that the 8 Pro gets, but a lot of that is down to the hardware that the phone is packing and, since I mostly just take pictures of my lunch or funny things at the store to send to my wife while I'm shopping, those features hardly get used by me anyway. The only drawback coming from the 4A is the switch from dedicated fingerprint reader on the back to one under the screen. I know that this has been a thing for a while now, but it just doesn't feel like it registers as well, taking several attempts and then going into PIN mode. I'm not sure if it's different hardware from the Pixel 8 Pro, but that seems to work better for me. I'd even prefer a power button fingerprint scanner. Of course, that's all up to personal preference, and maybe the AI will learn the finger better with time. After reading articles about Google's I/O this year, it seems they are all in on this AI stuff. They have absolutely packed this phone full of features that are powered by the AI focused Tensor G3 chip, the same one as in the 8 Pro. Outside of a handful of features and spec bumps (screen size, storage space, RAM, and telephoto lens mostly), the 8A is just as capable as the more expensive models and comes in at a much more reasonable price tag. The clean UI that you get with stock Android means upgrading from the 4A was practically transparent until you notice the longer battery life and general increase in responsiveness. Despite being the entry level version of this generation of Pixel phones, it does not feel like a budget phone, just the smallest version of the Pixel 8 line. You get the best of Android, all the AI goodness baked in, and at a price where I feel like it wouldn't be so crazy getting one for my daughter when she turns 10.

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It was great, it worked perfectly normal, easy to set up.

Decent phone with stock android experience. Would definitely recommend