Google’s Pixel 6a is lastly right here. It’s a sub-$500 cellphone that, this yr, contains Google’s personal Tensor chip which ought to convey much more energy to the most cost effective Pixel choice. It additionally matches the Pixel 6 household with a two-tone colour scheme and digital camera bar.

According to Reviews Editor Cherlynn Low, the $449 Pixel 6a feels much less just like the funds choice and extra like a smaller model (if a 6.1-inch display is small..) of Google’s finest cellphone. You get cutting-edge software program methods from Google, nice cameras and an honest battery life. In quick, it nails the necessities.

Check out the total evaluate, however as Cherlynn places it: there isn’t any higher Android cellphone below $500 than the Pixel 6a.

-Mat Smith

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