Google Pixel 10A 리뷰: 그냥 9A를 구입하세요

I’m not entirely sure why the Pixel 10A exists. Google Pixel 10A review: Just buy the 9A Google’s new midrange phone isn’t even a spec refresh — it’s a rerelease. Google hasn’t upgraded the chipset, cameras, or battery in the new phone, and the tweaks it’s made elsewhere are minimal at best. The flatter camera island is good, I guess! In one sense this isn’t a big problem: The Pixel 9A is an excellent device, and for the last year was easily the best phone you could buy for $500 in the US. The new 10A is available to buy now at that same great price ($499 for 128GB of storage or $100 more for 256GB), but with the 9A still on sale, and dropping in price, there’s one big question: Why not just buy the 9A — which is almost the same phone — for $50 less? The Good - The flush camera looks and feels great - Seven years of software updates - Satellite SOS support The Bad - It’s the Pixel 9A again - The Pixel 9A is cheaper - You should just buy the Pixel 9A When Google first showed me the 10A I struggled to get a good sense of what exactly had changed, so I pored over the spec sheets to lay out every hardware change Google has made, no matter how small. Here they are: - The 10A is 3g lighter than the 9A, and fractionally shorter and slimmer, resulting in a slightly thinner bezel around the screen - The cameras are entirely flush with the body, not just almost flush - The screen is protected by Gorilla Glass 7i, compared to Gorilla Glass 3 - The display is 300 nits brighter at peak brightness, and higher contrast - The 10A has 30W wired and 10W wireless charging, up from 23W wired and 7.5W wireless - The 10A supports Bluetooth 6.0, compared to 5.3 on the 9A - The 10A supports Satellite SOS - It comes in some new colors That’s not a whole lot, and none of these features feel individually like game-changers, except perhaps the introduction of Satellite SOS, which allows you to contact emergency services even when you’re outside of cell coverage. If that, or maybe the slightly faster charging, is enough to sway you to the 10A, great! I think you might be in the minority. The exterior updates are subtle, but welcome. Last year’s 9A dropped Google’s usual camera bar in favor of a smaller camera that just barely rose out of the phone’s back. In the 10A Google has pushed this design further, making the phone very slightly thicker so that the camera is now not only flush with the body, but ever-so-slightly recessed inside. It’s a welcome counterpoint to the bulging cameras on other phones with bigger ambitions. Those justify their designs with cutting-edge camera hardware, but since Google decided to instead stick with older, smaller sensors and focus its photography efforts on software, I applaud the decision to repay that with the least obtrusive camera design on any smartphone right now. The phone as a whole looks great, even if the design isn’t especially novel. It’s simple, sleek, and comfortable to hold in one hand. It’s slightly larger than the $799 Pixel 10, despite using a similar 6.3-inch display, but the 10A is noticeably lighter, which more than makes up for the extra size. My black model — sorry, obsidian — feels a little conservative, but the berry and lavender versions look fantastic if you want a pop of color. The 10A has the same 5,100mAh battery as the 9A, though Google claims the phone can last an extra 20 hours in its Extreme Battery Mode. Laurian Clemence, communications senior manager and head of product at Google, attributes that to “improvements in both software and hardware, including an updated modem,” though says Google has nothing to announce right now on whether the 9A would receive, or already has received, those same software improvements. Either way, this is a big enough battery to last one day, but not two, which is basically fine. The slightly faster charging speeds are welcome, though still slower than many Android alternatives — and Google didn’t extend the Pixel 10 line’s Qi2 magnets down to the 10A, which really would have felt like a worthwhile upgrade. The phone also runs on the same Tensor G4 chipset as last year’s 9A. It’s absolutely fast enough for all the day-to-day phone stuff, even if it falls short of the most powerful chipsets on the market. Google’s decision not to upgrade the chip a year on feels a little stingy, but it’s only really likely to cause headaches if you’re hoping for a powerhouse gaming phone (which this isn’t), or are planning to hold onto it for the duration of the seven years of OS updates, by which point the G4 will be nine years old and feeling a little long in the tooth. The cameras are the same between the phones too, which was inevitable in retrospect: A quirk of Google’s lineup means that the Pixel 10 has the same 48-megapixel main and 13-megapixel ultrawide cameras as the 9A, and so this phone gets them too. These cameras felt just about good enough in the 10, but for a $499 phone I can’t complain much. I’m a fan of Google’s fairly natural processing,