Google Pixel 3A hands-on: The only Pixel phone to buy

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  The Pixel 3A XL. [credit: Ron Amadeo ]

Google finally took the wraps off the Pixel 3A at Google I/O this week. It's a cheaper, plastic version of the Pixel 3 with the same great camera and the same great Google software support.

There really isn't a ton to say about the Pixel 3A. The phone is so incredibly similar to the Pixel 3 that it can be hard to tell them apart from a distance. Both devices have the same design, but the 3A is just rendered in plastic and (in the case of the XL version) noticeably lighter. It feels a bit like one of those plastic demo phones you'll see in stores-a perfect copy, but lighter and cheaper.

The Pixel 3A's body doesn't feel bad. The back continues the Pixel 3's two-tone design with a hard, glossy plastic around the top camera portion of the back and a soft-touch plastic coating. The back wraps around the sides with easy-to-hold rounded corners, and the display and display cover sit on top of the body. The 3A isn't premium, but at only $400, it doesn't have to be.

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