Software and camera processing have built Pixel into a powerhouse, but it’s still not for everyone.
As we said in our review — and reiterated on the Android Central Podcast — the Google Pixel 3a is not only the best camera you can buy at this price point, it’s a great phone period. This doesn’t feel like a phone that’s $400 less than the Pixel 3, and it’s bringing back up the debate of which manufacturers could possibly do what Google has done with the Pixel.
Granted, any time you debate manufacturers, topics tend to stray back to the age-old question of which manufacturer/style is the best, but the debate set forth by usedtolovephones that “I was wrong, nobody can do what Google does” asks if any other manufacturer could do what Google has done with the Pixel cameras — and specifically if any other manufacturer could do what Google has with the Pixel 3a’s performance and value.
There’s been some pretty intense debate so far:
Rukbat
05-14-2019 01:18 PM“
You’re overlooking one thing – no one is going to come close to Google’s camera capability until they design their own silicon (as Google did) or someone designs something similar and sells it to other manufacturers. (Or phones get fast enough to do all that processing in software in a small fraction of a second – that’s how the OP did it, and it was slow. It’s still going to be slow with a…
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Rukbat
05-14-2019 04:47 PM“
Yes. I’ve always loved iPhones too for their hardware and cameras. I don’t miss android at all when I’m using it, but as soon as I pick up an android phone I’m reminded how amazing it feels to even just place an icon wherever you want.
I think it’s the iPhone which helps sell android phones and vice versa. It’s so refreshing to go back to such a polished OS after using Google OS for a long…
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usedtolovephones
05-15-2019 05:30 AM“
For me my favorite phones have always been the near stock android phones. Such as the Nexus/Pixel line .I don’t care for the china made phones for that reason of spyware.I just don’t see any android phone that impresses me enough over the Pixels at this time. I do wish they were not as pricey but that’s about it.
Samsung phones just have to many built in bells and whistles for my taste.
I…
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davidnc
05-15-2019 07:57 AM“
I’ve been a pixel user for years as well, but I’ll tell you what, if you put the G cam APK on your oneplus6t, you can’t tell the difference between 99.999% of the photos. At that point, everything else on the phone outweighs the Google and makes the OnePlus 6t better
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KillerQ
05-15-2019 08:33 PM“
But isn’t Samsung too expensive? The S line, yes, it’s amazing. But what if you don’t want to spend that much money on a phone? What happens then? I know that there are maaaaannnyyyy Samsung mid rangers out there but I have no idea what to put my finger on.
Samsung makes sense if you have the means to go all out on them. Other than that, you get a mediocre jack of all trades. With Google,…
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But what do you think? Could anyone else pull off what Google has with the Pixel 3a and its wonderful camera?
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