‘My budget Google Pixel 8a phone rivals iPhone 16 - and it's £445 cheaper'

I’ve utilized the Pixel 8a for six months and inactive amazed that Google brands it arsenic a ‘budget’ exemplary - there’s thing to moan astir erstwhile utilizing it

Any mobile shoppers looking for an upgrade betwixt present and Christmas, but struggling to find a prime exemplary to suit their budget, a ‘cheaper’ alternate whitethorn suit..but this doesn’t mean scrimping connected quality.

The likes of Apple’s caller iPhone 16 volition drawback the oculus of many, but who’s to accidental you person to walk upwards of £799 to get a decent mundane mobile. The budget Pixel 8a I’ve utilized for six months has been propelled to the beforehand of the Black Friday income at a staggeringly cheaper £354, and it has 5 qualities that lucifer the overmuch pricier Apple iPhone 16.

Think of the aged Apple iPhone Minis - though these fizzled retired a fewer years agone - Google offers its ‘a’ models which travel with a cheaper terms successful mind. I’ve utilized the Pixel 8a since May contempt being branded a fund instrumentality of the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro I can’t responsibility its mundane use.

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It’s quick, has bully storage, photos are crisp and the video camera prime performs good for societal media, barroom a flimsy gripe with the surface brightness there’s not been thing to moan about.

And due to the fact that of that I can’t spot myself jumping to upgrade to the iPhone 16 anytime soon, not forgetting that its matches, adjacent beats, immoderate of Apple’s iPhone 16 qualities - has a terms that’d support you £345 richer. If you did fancy Apple's newest exemplary past Sky Mobile is presently offering 50% disconnected the information for six months - buy here.

So, what are they? Both the Pixel 8a and iPhone 16 were launched successful 2024 truthful there’s nary borderline connected age, and erstwhile it comes to size some the modular 128GB iPhone 16 and Pixel 8a person the nonstop aforesaid 6.1-inch screen.

But past we get onto 2 features wherever the ‘budget’ Pixel 8a trumps the overmuch pricier iPhone 16…and they’re beauteous noticeable, acknowledgment to the latest circular up from Phone Arena.

First up, refresh complaint arsenic the Pixel 8a has treble the magnitude than the iPhone 16 - a 120Hz refresh complaint compared to the seemingly tiny 60Hz of the iOS exemplary - truthful Google’s prime volition look sharper and scrolling each time volition fundamentally beryllium smoother, positive if you're 1 to power betwixt societal apps rapidly it’ll respond quickly.

Having utilized the Pixel 8a to drawback this precise photograph below, I was genuinely impressed with it - earlier I got my hands connected it to effort I’d built up that these features would beryllium scrimped connected successful bid to warrant the terms but I was wrong. And the basal figures show.

As we look astatine the pixel 8a’s main 64MP main camera and 13MP ultra-wide lens it has a 1 up compared to the iPhone 16’s 48MP main and 12MP ultra-wide - but bare successful caput this is the basics.

Apple nevertheless does radiance with its video prime arsenic Phone Arena documents: “3840x2160 (4K UHD) (60 fps), 1920x1080 (Full HD) (240 fps) and Cinematic mode.”

The Google Pixel 8a is disposable successful Amazon's Black Friday sale, while Sky Mobile's information deal volition assistance Apple shoppers divided the outgo of their instrumentality adjacent further. Looking astatine different mobile retailers, EE, O2, Vodafone, and giffgaff all person caller Black Friday sales.