Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Pixel 6a vs Pixel 6 Pro: Don’t Make a Mistake”.
Portion this video is sponsored by anchor so phones. These days, i think it’s fair to say, are like a dime, a dozen they’re, all some form of good they’re. All a rectangle and they’ll generally give you the same experience. Google, i think, is trying something like a slight bit different uh. Instead of making straight up clone of every other phone, this is the first time ever really they’re trying to take the pixel line in a very different direction and they’re focusing on what google does best ai cameras and software, and that is no different.
With the new pixel 6a, but now that the six is here, i think it’s making it hard to decide which pixel to actually buy. So i’m not gon na compare the 6a to the six for the extra 150 bucks. I don’t think you are getting 150 dollars worth of more phone uh. They are that close. So, if you’re trying to decide between those two just go to 6k, make it easier, uh you’re, getting a very similar experience, saving time saving money, i think you’ll be pretty happy. Work gets interesting when you compare the 6a to the pixel 6 pro and up front.
I get this might seem like a strange comparison. One is a premium thousand dollar device. The other is mid-range. The more you compare these phones. I think the more surprising results are in the middle of 2022. The phone to buy might surprise you, but no matter what you said about the pixel. It has been known for that camera system and with the 6 pro google really stepped it up with. Finally, all new hardware: you got higher resolutions more zoomies, ultra wide and sort of that same amazing, pixel, processing, and now it just improved.
It’S great. I’Ve talked about in the past, made a lot of videos on it. If you like, the way a pixel takes photos, you will love what you get from the 6 pro 6a.
On the other hand, it’s got some different hardware than the pro it’s much more similar. What we had with the pixel 5, with two 12 megapixel sensors uh. One for the main one’s ultrawide so using the same processing on both.
So can you tell the difference? I’Ll put some samples up here. Uh is a or b the 6a. So be honest. Look at highlights. Look at low lights. You can see.
You know detail in this photo here, just see if you can guess which one is which all right. So, if you’re locking your guesses b was a pixel 6a uh. Take that quality discussion out uh, you do get the same great software on both of these phones and i am still bonkers impressed with magic eraser. It’S something that was kind of relegated to photoshop really a few months ago, but on this 450 phone i can delete things from my photo with the swipe of a finger. I also really dig the camouflage feature that comes with the 6a, actually change the color of something that’s distracting in the background. Uh tensor chip inside is putting in the work.
That’S one of my favorite things about both these phones to me. What it comes down to with these camera systems, uh is how much you want to telephoto now the zoom on the 6 pro is, i think, amongst the best features of the camera setup. The photos are sharp and detailed because it lets you take really unique photos that i think to my look, a bit more professional and also to look sort of similar to closely similar, at least to a dedicated camera. Clearly, the wide angle is sort of more popular for a lot of people, so it comes down to what’s more important to you.
I love zoom. I use them all the time, but i’ve heard in the comments and i’ve seen discussions. I tend to be in the minority there from a software standpoint and a quality standpoint. I think you’d be hard-pressed to say that either of these cameras will give you a bad result.
I think that’s a testament to how much work google has put into these things. These phones, if you just like look quickly, i think these phones look identical and i think, in the best way possible. Google took a really bold sense of design philosophy of the pixel and i think it paid off big time. So the camera bar with the colorful back is instantly recognizable now as a pixel and whether you spend the lower amount of 450 or the highest amount in the thousands uh you’re getting a device.
That looks and feels uh premium now not to say that there aren’t any differences between the two. The biggest difference is the screen, and this might be a deal breaker for some uh 6a is rock me. 6.1 inch, fhd, plus 60hz ola display well s6 pro. It’S bigger 6.7 inches, qhd, 120 hertz. Now i’ve been open about it can’t help it. So i am as a person i may displace knob, i’m looking at 120.
Hertz displays for the past few years. So to me, the pros display is leaps and bounds better than the 6a. This is one place with. The hardware feels noticeably worse uh than the pro counterpart and to me, having a better screen is something i really care about.
What is much less important to me, though, is the material of the phone uh. The six pro’s got a glossy glass back. Well, it looks great fingerprint magnet. It’S also kind of slippery to hold the composite back on the 6a, to my hand, feels more ergonomic and less slippery, even though it’s technically less premium, i am 100 okay with it i actually kind of like or prefer it. The back feels like glass to me. Even though it’s not it’s a strange plastic material, i really like the way the 6a feels the sides are metal flat screen everything i have this phone feels in the hand, does not scream mid-range at all so another. What phone you get whether you go.
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What i think google is most let’s say proud of with these phones, uh material, you and the software is what i always appreciate the pixel line kind of for the most i’m sure there are millions of android devices out there, but the software experience of google is Just so top-notch, and that is no different with the 6a – and i guess you’d expect google’s own software and their take on their own software to be amongst the best. So almost everything we’ve talked about with these phones is thanks to one thing: the tensor chip. I’Ve been going on on about this chip for almost a year since it’s released and it just aged very well in that time it’s fast powerful.
Most importantly, it stays out of its own way and i don’t notice a processor and that’s exactly what i want. I want to pick up a phone and have a seamless, quick experience, and i think google really accomplishes that perfectly with its sensor chips now, not to say it’s had a perfect run. Uh six pro has been plagued with software bug since its release uh, but one in particular with the fingerprint reader.
So this thing is just slow uh. When google announced that in-screen fingerprint reader was coming to the 6a as well. I was interested to see if there would be any changes now. I know some of you have had incredible experiences with the 6 pro fingerprinter. Maybe you had to set it up 17 times different fingers and delete it and set it back up again.
I’Ve tried those things my experience with it, it worked, it was fine, but it was not fast and if your experience has been different good for you in my time with the 6a, my experience has been almost exactly the same as a 6 pro it works. It’S been pretty reliable, but it is not the fastest out there. I got used to it pretty quickly. It wasn’t a huge deal, but at least bear it in mine didn’t seem to be any different from the six pro to the 6a.
Aside from that, one hardware feature the tensor chip, i think flexes most i was with ai. I talked about this a bit with the camera, but everything you can do with the pro. You can pretty much do here as well and again thousand dollar phone versus 450 dollar phone. It’S actually doing the same thing and we’re talking about things like voice recognition for typing.
This is still one of the most useful parts of the phone and it perfectly demonstrates what this tensor chip can do in real time. I can talk to my phone how to dictate what i am saying with punctuation and accuracy. It’S awesome and that’s really the importance of google developing their own chip in past iterations of the pixel a series in order to get the cost down. The processor was really one of those places that was cut.
So, even though google tried their best make the experience sort of seamless, it did always feel like there was stuff left out compared to the more powerful big brothers. That’S not the case here anymore, at all, makes the 6a way easier to recommend, and there are other differences here too. Things like battery size and waterproofing differences here as well fast charging sort of smaller nuanced things and honestly throughout this video, you might have felt like the 6a and 6 pro are pretty similar, and that is very much because they are. Google made a really compelling package of the 6a to me, it’s so good. In fact, i think it’s hard to justify the price, the 6 pro right now and on one hand we know the 7 is around the corner. Google’S already announced it so buying a 6 pro right now, at least to me, doesn’t make a lot of sense.
But if you need a phone today, the 6a is so good. I think it’s worth sacrificing a little bit of build quality, a little bit of camera and a little bit of screen. Aside from those things, the phones are almost identical. The 6a is a huge home run for google.
I think like most of the pixel lines. They’Re, probably not going to sell millions and millions of them, but if you need a phone and you want a really good one, especially if you want to spend less than 500 bucks, i wouldn’t look any farther than the google pixel 6a .