Why Does the Pixel 8a Exist?
Why Does the Pixel 8a Exist?
In this clip, Andrew and David talk about the new Pixel 8a!
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It's a great phone
Bruh
it would be on sale
No
Me: surprised Pikachu face
I also don't know why the Pixel 8a exists if Pixels don't seem to be getting better. I have a Pixel 6 for 2 years now and it is getting buggier and buggier. Display records touches weirdly, battery getting worse and worse, fingerprint sensor still carp and it weighs like a ton compared to other phones. Pixel Assistant is also almost unusable comparing how well it worked and understood my questions like time zons, population of cities etc. The only saving graces are the camera, somewhat okay performance and the stock OS.
A phone being on SALE shouldn't be considered as their real price. MSRP is the OFFICIAL price thatba brand is communicating to the world. If they don't want people to conaider that the actual price, they shouldn't have said that 499 is the MSRP.
Just imagine if the script is flipped. Apple just announced that the MSRP of the new iPhone 16 Pro is $1500. But they often went on sale for $900.
Which price would the media use as the Official pric of 16 Pro?
I really like the phone. Purchased for my son and I don't see why you wouldn't buy it ijs
Hear me out, if the supposed rumours are true for the Pixel 9 series. Google should drop the a series and make the Pixel 9 the equivalent of the a series, and then have the 9 Pro and the 9 Pro XL as the other two options, the A series is just a waste of time at this stage.
Can’t wait til mine arrives! I actually love the A-Series and hope it stays around. You Geeks don’t speak for everyone 🤪
When are ppl gonna understand when they drop the price of one they drop the price of the other? It's not a difficult concept to grasp I swear lol
Pixel ruined the A series by hiking up the price and giving it too many costly features. It should have remained a minimalist phone for $300 without wireless charging, without a 2nd wide lens camera, with the plastic build, & with the headphone jack.
Pixel 8a is the stupid phone that going to get a lot of love. So stupid that it's been rumored for a really long time and it came out really really late, and pixel fans still love it because the 8a is packed with feature that exist on their flagship device.
Apple redrops the mini and people would lose their minds
I like how most of the comments are finally mostly positive because it's always the other way around. But also everyone has a good point and that is why I recently bought it. It is a good phone with good hardware and software for a cheap price that is currently better than a lot of other phones so that is why it exists
No one care’s about it all people do is buy it and return it 🥱
Google will lower the price of the 8a shortly to $399..
so that you can make money from talking about it.
Just buy an iPhone…😢
In the UK at this exact time I'm commenting there is a trade in offer on the google store where you can get a minimum of £150 off on the 8a with any device, allowing me to trade in an old iPhone 8 and getting £200 off MSRP making it £300. The Pixel 8 however gets a trade in offer of £75 and only allows certain models I've discovered, so even if the pixel 8 goes down in price, it wouldn't be seem in a better value to most people and seeing the 8a as a really good option for them.
Hopefully the speakers aren't trash like the 7a
Andrew in the thumbnail 🥴🥃😂
Got the 8a for $399, huge upgrade from the Pixel 5a. My 5a would overheat often, the 8a gets warm here and now but i can still use it. Was debating waiting for the pixel 9 but id rather just wait for the pixel 10. At $399 the 8a is a beast!!
I'm buying it. Don't care if it's similar to the 8, it's cheaper by quite a bit so I don't see why not
It seems like a decent device and it's free if you sign up for Google Fi for 2 years at the moment. Yes the MSRP is high but it's not going anywhere near that unless you just want it fully unlocked no carrier.
The $100 Google Store credit would be good for five months of YouTube Premium at $19 per month
8a will also go on sale just like every bloody pixel phone. all you are saying is don't buy any pixel on release day.
Google is ahead of us. They probably are anticipating an important increase in the price of Pixel 9. So at the end of the year, when the Pixel 8 would be around $500 and Pixel8a would be around $350, you’ll have to make a choice, you get “last year phone” at a higher price, or you can get a 2024 phone for a cheaper price (of course considering the Pixel 9 would be in a different range of price). That’s when the Pixel 8a it’s going to have sense and become a best seller phone. 🤯🤯🤯🤯
People always fail to mention than the display is a craply rigid OLED panel (poor off axis performance, uniformity ect) and that tensor a series processors are actually made in a worse way than the main phones, just get the 6,7 or 8 and ignore the cost cutting devices.
Google Fi subscribers could get $200 off when pre-ordering the 8A, my adult son is still in my Fi group and could use a new phone so I ordered him the 256gb model for $349. I think that's a pretty good buy.
to sell the 8
Because sales aplly to everything.
Because $100 is still a lot of money.
Because not everybody falls from ladders.
You can get the pixel 8a basically for free if you trade in your pixel 7 or 7 pro in Australia…
Pretty sure Aloe is toxic to drink unless it's properly filtered, so good call.
They should have gone with the 4a form factor and added an SD card slot.
google messed this whole launch up badly. they set the price too high knowing they would discount it and then once they discounted the 8 to 550 they set that price. The deals disappeared so it looked like there was a 200 dollar difference between the two and then screw earl y adopters by releasing a 3 day sale in the UK for only the pixel 8 starting today taking the 8 to 850 and keeping the 8A at 499. They managed to screw over the early adopters, devalue the price of the 8A int he first two weeks and totally piss everyone off. the 8A should have been set at 350 from the start and just maintain the price.