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Priced at an almost surprisingly reasonable $499 right off the bat, Google’s most affordable 5G-enabled smartphone to date didn’t leave a lot of room for deals. Commercially released just a few weeks after the slightly more expensive and slightly more premium-looking Pixel 5, the 6.2-inch Pixel 4a 5G was indeed not discounted very often during its first couple of months of availability, especially in an unlocked version.
At these prices, whether you’ll opt for upfront carrier activation or not, it’s objectively hard to beat the camera performance, battery life, and especially the software experience of this stock Android-running handset guaranteed to receive major updates through the fall of 2023.