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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Samuel Gibbs Consumer technology editor

Google Pixel 10a review: cheaper Android is great, but no real advance

Google Pixel 10a review photo showing the homescreen.
The Google Pixel 10a is a quality Android at a mid-range price. Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian

The latest smartphone in the lower-cost A-series Pixel line shows what makes Google phones so good, while undercutting the competition on price. The problem is that it differs little from its predecessor, which is still on sale.

Priced from £499 (€549/$499/A$849), the Pixel 10a is more like a second edition of last year’s excellent Pixel 9a. The two phones share the same Tensor G4 chip, not the newer G5 in the rest of the £799 and up Pixel 10 line; the same memory, storage and cameras; the same size 6.3in OLED screen, though the Pixel 10a reaches a higher peak brightness making it slightly easier to read outside.

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