Popular YouTuber declares: Do not buy the Pixel 9a smartphone

A number of weeks in the past, I stated the Google Pixel 9a is among the funds telephones to purchase this 12 months. Now, a well-liked tech YouTuber is recommending the reverse, and I see his level.

JerryRigEverything, a tech YouTube account with greater than 9 million followers, posted a new video this week the place the host stress checks the brand new mid-range Pixel telephone and performs a teardown to have a look at its inside elements. The host finds some minor issues to dislike in regards to the exterior supplies in addition to the water and mud resistance, however for dwelling restore fanatics, there’s one main, main drawback: The battery is sort of unattainable to take away.

It appears Google has glued the Pixel 9a’s 5,100mAh battery (which carried out very nicely for us in testing) such that dwelling elimination is extraordinarily troublesome, at finest. In line with JerryRigEverything, most different main smartphone producers, together with Apple and Samsung, have stopped doing this, however Google persists.

Basically, the Large Tech corporations have turn out to be far more repair-friendly up to now 5 or 6 years, and there are even producers like Framework who make units with the categorical objective of being repair-friendly, so it feels a bit like Google is out of step with the remainder of the business right here. Clearly, Google hasn’t gotten the Proper To Restore memo but.

Total, the Pixel 9a has gotten good-to-great reviews for a funds smartphone (together with from me).

And let’s be sincere: That is hardly a dealbreaker for a typical cellular buyer. The typical individual would not even know the best way to disassemble their telephone within the first place. However if you wish to preserve the opportunity of at some point changing your Pixel’s battery, this improvement is price figuring out about.