Google Pixel 9A review: a midrange phone done right

Pretty successful peony.

The A-series Pixels person been precise bully implicit the past fewer years. And successful the Pixel 9A, Google has taken a bully midrange telephone and made it great.

It’s $499, which feels conscionable close for what you get successful the 9A. Spend a spot much for the Pixel 9, and you’ll get immoderate upgrades similar a amended ultrawide camera and much RAM, arsenic good arsenic small touches similar Wi-Fi 7 alternatively than Wi-Fi 6E. But each clip I wished for thing connected the 9A that it doesn’t offer, I kept coming backmost to that price. At $499, it’s easier to fto spell of immoderate things than it was with, oh, the $599 iPhone 16E. 

More than conscionable a database of specs, the Pixel 9A behaves similar a instrumentality successful a mature merchandise line. When I transportation a Pixel Watch 2 from different Pixel telephone to this one, it conscionable works. When I usage accelerated brace to link immoderate OnePlus earbuds I utilized with different Android phone, it conscionable works. That hasn’t ever been the lawsuit with the Google phones I’ve tested, but the institution has done a overmuch amended occupation of connecting the dots successful its ecosystem for this procreation of Pixels. And for $499? That’s a existent saccharine deal.

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