Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A
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This was actually the primary thing that kept me on a Pixel 2 for so long, since it also has a similar rear fingerprint sensor design (and I just pre-ordered the Pixel 4a today).
I can't be the only one who greatly prefers a rear fingerprint sensor to face unlock, especially in our new world order with widespread mask wearing -- but, even before! It's so much faster and less finicky.
(The new model's fingerprint sensor is also so subtle on the chassis on the phone that you can just barely make it out in the photograph of the phone's back shown on the comparison page. But if you squint, you'll see it. It's also discussed in many of the reviews.)
Why did I miss it? Because FaceID will unlock the notification area and its associated actions before I perform any action or even touch the phone.
Let’s say I get a text, my phone is on the night stand. I just look at it and it already unlocks, no reaching.
It lets you skip a step and start interacting with the screen before the phone has unlocked. Perhaps less of a big deal with the back-mounted fingerprint sensor, in that case I could interact with the thumb simultaneous to unlocking the back.
Using password managers was another big one. Instead of tapping the auto fill button, then tapping the fingerprint sensor, it was all one click. Opening bank apps, same thing. FaceID is always one less finger motion.
Mask wearing has thrown a wrench into it but Apple has added logic to quickly bring up the pin pad when it detects a face mask. Also, sometimes it seems to learn my masked face, but that’s less reliable.
I don’t know how this compares to Pixel face unlocking at all, admittedly.
And I never understood why Apple didn’t use the rear mounted fingerprint sensor. But I do understand why they think the benefits of face unlocking outweigh the drawbacks.
Some examples not related to the action of unlocking: when your alarm goes off, the noise gets quiet when you look at the phone. Also, the screen won’t time out and turn off while your eyes are looking at it.
Now I'm definitely holding out to see what the 5 has, because if I can get 5G connectivity, I'm willing to switch, but I won't be jumping at it if there's no fingerprint sensor.
Face unlock is complete BS, no disagreement there.
However... has anyone actually looked into how secure those phone fingerprint readers are?
Could very well be that the reason they're pushing face unlock so hard is they know their fingerprint tech is even worse.
Face unlock is pretty nice ... unless you are wearing a mask.
Very infuriating to type my long password then.
On the other side of the coin, fingerprint sensor is kind of neat (well I made a deep cut on my index yesterday so there are also situations where it fails haha). I wish there were both front and back sensors though. In the screen itself for the front one, otherwise the chin would get comically large.
Also when I am baking, I just want to use face unlock.
Ideally we would have both (or something better than both I guess)
Except during this pandemic where you have to wear a mask everywhere, I actually like face unlock. It's even more seamless than the finger print reader.
I care less about the removable battery - in every phone I had I was able to change it myself, tools are cheap, the only thing you need is to watch some tutorials and calm down to have your hands steady.
Expandable storage is also great. I mean, how can it even be considered "not a feature"? You can very cheaply expand your storage - e.g. in situations you run out of storage. I don't get it, what's not to like? Honest question.
it's a part of the spec, so they list it. it's not sad or bad or good -it just is.
for me, i want just usb-c, and no headphone port is a plus. same for sd card, same for removable battery. i thought all of those were important to me, until i realized i haven't actually used any of this in 10 years. yes, a headphone port adds just a tiny bit of thickness and weight. so does the removable battery. so does an sd reader. it all adds up, and adds a little cost. for things i don't want.
so not a feature, not advertized as one, and for a lot of people, not something they want. you do, so get the phone that suits you.
What I've found works best for me:
- In the car I have a Bluetooth audio adapter for the aux in my older car. Works great.
- In my backpack I have a pocket where I always leave a headphone adapter. I always put it back if I use it.
- Bluetooth to Aux adapter with a small battery. Costs like $20 on Amazon and also lives in my backpack. Has saved my ass many times.
Beyond that, I just own more Bluetooth headphones and I keep a few space headphone adapters attached to headphones I use occasionally.
It sucks to spend $50 on adapters and another $40 on Bluetooth adapters. But it is very usable now and I don't ever "miss" my headphone jack now that I have the proper infrastructure setup.
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMX62AM/A/lightning-to-35...
I understand that it doesn't fit everyone though.
If you want to use wired headphones, the $9 adapter works well. Wireless headphones are also widely available and have batteries that last all day.
I realise the above doesn’t perfectly cater to all customers, but anecdotally it seems to cater well enough to enough of them.
Happy to see they are keeping it in future iterations of the 'a' series.
Same here - I held onto my Pixel 1 & only jumped to 3A when it came out.
Mostly it was that I had an existing wired setup fitted to my ears, but the real reason to hate BT was that I wasn't always charging them up. The airpods style charging case + a charging mat might have solved those problems, but the charger was more annoying than the wires themselves.
I happily use bluetooth in the car, which doesn't have the same sort of "did I forget to charge it?" problems.
But an obvious problem is that the touchscreen is activated by my leg. I had to actually lock the lockscreen just to prevent the phone from constantly opening random apps and providing random input.
Also, even if when new they might be water tight, after you leave it in the sun the glue that holds the phone together and seals it will melt and age. On a samsung I discovered that above the buttons it had less than 1 mm of glue.
I got a phone that is just usb-c. Carrying around the adapter sucks, and Bluetooth is an even bigger pain in the ass.
1. batteries run out and can't use until recharged. Even if that only took 10 minutes I wanted to use my headphone now, not later.
2. batteries die and are not replaceable. Bad for both pocketbook and the environment
3. interference can make them unusable. Try walking through a crowded train station and you'll find you get about 2 seconds of audio for every 5 seconds of nothing.
1 step forward (no wires) 3 steps back.
That said, the Pixel line of phones isn't known for having long lasting battery. A feature that I've found to be indispensable is wireless charging. I just rest my Pixel 4 on a vertical charging base throughout the day. Otherwise, I'd have to have to constantly plug/unplug the phone throughout the day to charge, and that'd be a huge regression in the user experience.
Just as I'm about 100% fully committed to Bluetooth headsets and my collection is just about fully covering all my use cases, Google brings back the 3.5mm jack! Nice that they're giving me hope that I can still use my wired headsets without having to use a dongle, but I'd be again terribly disappointed if they removed this feature again in the next iteration. This feature alone is almost enough to downgrade my Pixel 4.
P.S. The Pixel 4 isn't an available trade-in option for the Pixel 4a. Lol!
Another example: RCS. A protocol that neither carriers nor users actually want. 7 years after iMessage took over the US, Google is still unable to provide a functional E2E encrypted multi-device messaging service with all the doo-dads that come with iMessage.
So many more textbook examples out there.
RCS works. I am glad it's here. It would have been far more helpful 3 years ago though.
The most boggling decision is what has happened with Hangouts.
Oof, this sounds like the sort of thing that could go really frustratingly wrong in some cases. Do you happen to know if this results in apps being erroneously killed when switching to the background? My phone killing whatever is playing on Spotify or Podcast Addict when I switch to another app has been a recurring annoyance for me on Android. I've always been able to find a fix but, bewilderingly, the fix has been different on almost every phone I've had.
Compare that to every Android manufacturer who either don't offer wireless charging at all or gate it to flagships, it's a really sad state of affairs for someone like myself who won't even consider a phone without wireless charging today.
Anecdote: I still have a 2XL and it can get me through 24 hours. It's gotten a _little_ worse recently which I attribute to hardware age. The camera is fantastic, so I have no need to upgrade (although having stereo speakers would be nice.)
Note that wireless charging causes a lot of heat, which is like cryptonite for battery longevity.
Note that the 4a actually has a larger battery than the 4, per the article, so this complaint may well be addressed by this device.
Comparing the 4a to this it looks like a bunch of solid incremental improvements across the board.
Huge fan of basically everything here. Price, screen size, phone size.
Battery size could be a touch bigger, as my 3a has the best battery life I just wish for about 10% more for edge cases.
As an android developer myself, I don't see why anyone should buy a more expensive premium phone. Except if they want to have it as a status symbol.
Also, have you looked at the FDE.ai app to help optimize the battery life? I find my battery life to go 90 minutes to an hour longer now with FDE.
Google is careful in preserving fragile cart experience for those of us who avoid offline stores this year.
:shocked face:
(I think that maybe store.google.com is somebody's 20% time project, and they just haven't announced it's shutdown yet...)
Actually some of them are new on the launch list. Taiwan and Japan I believe did not get Pixel when it launch, it tends to come later. And even when it arrived, you cant really get it anyway.
Just to show how much Google care about its Pixel Phone.
I have been waiting for this phone, but I live in Europe which will only be getting this somewhere mid September
I think I'll just give up and buy a OnePlus Nord
> Google carried over the rear-mounted fingerprint reader of the Pixel 3a. Color me a fan. The 3a had a fairly deep divot with a different finish on the fingerprint reader itself. Google made the Pixel 4a’s fingerprint reader blend in better with the body. Both the reader and the rear shell have the same matte texture and black color, and the back of the phone even curves inward towards the reader to make it feel more cohesive.
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-4a-review-1140...
Even before face-masks, I found that my Pixel 4 can't recognize me with a bike helmet on. I have a phone mount on my handlebars and fingerprint-unlocking is very convenient (not while moving, obviously). Also if I'm driving, I can hand the phone to my wife and finger-unlock it without looking away from the road, which is definitely not possible with a face-unlock.
This was way, way better than face id or fingerprints during covid (eg, face id does not work b/c of masks, fingerprints don't work b/c of gloves).
Some skipped Pixel 4 due to removing it. They considered fingerprint reading to be one of Pixel 3's most helpful features.
We still don't know if Pixel 5 will have it or not.
So I had to get a Pixel 4 because it has Face Unlock, which works almost too well to be honest.
Also, a lot of telecoms are kind of ignoring 4g/lte deadspots in favor of just putting new NSA 5G cells it seems. I’m excited, but I’m also biased because I work in the industry.
Another use case is streaming + AR, I can see that becoming crazy bandwidth intensive. I think there can be some cool games if we can get high mobile bandwidth and a cleaner AR (ie. Apple glasses) experience medium.
I also think if you're asking from the perspective of why would the 4a but $350 but 4a-5g be $500, then I'd guess that the 4a-5g is going to come with more than just 5g capabilities.
More "G's" have to be better. so 5 "G's" are clearly better than 4. It's kinda like that great scene in the movie This is Spinal Tap. The amp "numbers all go to eleven". When pressed, the obvious advantage is "These go to eleven".
The average person couldn't explain what either LTE or 5G are.
I just ran a Speedtest on my phone and with a relatively weak signal I'm getting 10 Mbps download via LTE. Isn't that good enough for the latest cat GIF?
I think the industry wants 5G to deal with improved cell service in densely occupied places such as football stadiums. Well, that obviously won't be a priority for the next few years!
I've never felt like they were slow or missing anything I needed.
> ... it’s fascinating that the most important detail is the price: $349.
Local pricing on google store is A$599, despite US$349 ~= A$490.
So not quite the same bargain for us, though not hugely surprising.
> ... it’s worth remembering that technically, fall ends on December 21st this year.
Living in a country with only a dozen or so native (only only mildly) deciduous trees, but a surfeit of eucalyptus that drop dangerously large branches, leaves, and bark all year long -- we don't call autumn fall, just autumn. And it runs 1st March to 31st May. Which adds some mental gymnastics on top of the corporate hermeneutics when dealing with these announcements.
I've worked for multiple companies where most of my colleagues consistently brushed this off. In each company, there was at least one significant budgeting stuff-up while I was there because someone interpreted a '$' number as the wrong kind of dollar. In the worst case I witnessed the "bill shock" was about 50 thousand dollars. (Wait, which "dollars" was that again?)
At least with "fall" I know the author is talking about autumn in the northern hemisphere -- it's not so easy when someone writes that something is to be released "this summer". :)
If I remember correctly, AUS has a 10% VAT. So that is $539.
For the extra $60, you get an additional year of warranty and consumer protection that is offered by law.
Yeah, well, Australian vendors are all trying to pay down their Toyota Prados and their seven rental property... so, fair go eh.
On a more serious note, where can I get the Pixel A4 locally? I check a couple online stores yesterday but didn't see it yet.
I've zero interest in the high end phone market, I'm sort of horrified at 6, 7, $800+ the prices, and I feel like I use fewer and fewer apps all the time.
Hopefully google with the 'a' models and Apple with the SE will stick with the mid range products.
The pixel 4a has “No guaranteed Android version updates after August 2023” according to google. $350 / 3 = $116/year.
iPhone 11 is $699 according to google. Let’s assume 5 years of support which is reasonable for Apple at this point which = $139.80/year.
Galaxy S8 seems to have been released 3 years ago and only has android 9.0. So let’s call that 3 years (might be less since I don’t know when the last update landed). Assuming the same for the $900 S10 = $300/year.
Note that I am told some phones have advertisements built in and also some manufacturers are also selling your data but not sure how to cost this in (and some people don’t care).
I think it's weird to include the SE on that list. iOS seems like a great choice for a "clean" OS and the SE's camera, while not the highest end or with several sensors, is pretty great. A better emphasis would be storage and RAM which is pretty incredible and the inclusion of a headphone jack.
The competing Apple variant (lower res HDish screen but much faster CPU) is the iPhone SE 128GB for $449. It will probably get OS updates for 5 years which works out to $7.48 per month.
It's more valuable than my car (to me).
I think I'll be going for the 5, but the 4a does give me a pause. If I use it for another 3 years, I think buying the 5 is the better choice.
Notable quirk in this review: around 5:10 where he starts talking about how usable the software is, he also makes an erroneous gesture with his thumb and has to do it again. This is my experience with the Pixel 3a. The gestures require a range of motion that my thumb just does not have. This isn't going to be any better with the 4a, which is even bigger than the 3a.
It's really the only complaint I have about an otherwise good phone, and it doesn't look like the 4a really addresses it. It appears Google is looking for a software solution to battery life, which I don't disagree with, but that whole approach is basically pointless if someone happens to install Facebook on their phone.
On the positive side, the 3a has a great camera and it looks like the 4a is continuing that. I've been particularly impressed by the 3a's low-light capabilities, such as taking good photos indoors, and it's especially good considering its price.
Only gripe I have with Pixel 3a is the "crackling" noise when volume is at max. Seems to be software because sometimes it doesn't happen. Everyone I know with the Pixel 3a has it.
I'm perfectly happy with a 3100mAh battery. The only feature I'm missing with this phone is the "squeeze button" (I forgot the real term) -- it's a much better snooze function than trying to figure out which direction to swipe to snooze when you're sleepy enough to want to snooze. All too often on my old phone I'd just shut the alarm off instead of snoozing.
This is probably the firstest first world problem I've ever had.
I still like the 3a and use it as my daily, I just wish Google would find a way to put 3500-4000mah batteries in these.
> 4500 mAh vs 3140 mAh on the Pixel
> microSD card slot vs no card slot on Pixel
> The A71 has more cameras
> 2 extra GBs of RAM on the A71
The Samsung is larger, which I view as a negative, but that explains how they can have a larger battery capacity.
And it looks like the Samsung does not have the pull tabs for the adhesive underneath the battery[1]. We don't yet have a tear-down of the Pixel 4a but google has been reliably including pull tabs in their phones for years.
On a hardware-level, though, I agree, the A71 is a much better value.
Checking on best buy (as a US user), the A71 actually goes for $600 if you want it unlocked and without activation [1]. So a more fair comparison is that for Americans the A71 is $250 more than the 4a, but you could get it for cheaper if you activate or buy it locked, or are willing to buy from a 3rd party on Amazon.
The A51 does seem to be available from Best Buy for $400, unlocked and unactivated, or $300 from an Amazon 3rd party, but the specs there are of course not as good as the a71.
Posting as I was excited to buy something non-Google and fully featured, but I personally don't feel the same confidence buying from some 3rd party on Amazon as I would from Best Buy or Google.
1) https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-galaxy-a71-5g-128gb-unl...
Pixel 4a: 144 x 69.4 mm iPhone 12 5.4": 131 x 64 mm
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_4a-... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkell...
I wouldn't get a phone without it.
(LineageOS, incidentally, just recently got a port to the Raspberry Pi 4.)
I will never call it "truly wireless charging" until it is a technology that charges my phone "wirelessly" many meters away from the wall socket, regardless I am using the phone in my bed or bathroom. The current method of "wireless charging" is not truly wireless, IMO.
Same for if you're working at a desk you can just set it down on the charger when you're not using it 95% of the time.
Hint: if you make it too hard for customers to feel well-informed about your devices all but the most casual buyers will simply avoid your brand.
Having just a 128GB version is a good thing.
There's a cheap new 4a model, with two radio options and less-big is the only size.
There's an unspecified 5 which is an update to the 4.
What's messy about that? Is there a phone manufacturer who makes fewer models than Google in 2020?
I think that empirically it's fine to have a bunch of different models. Market segmentation is a thing.
You have an iPhone XR: 64 or 128GB
iPhone SE: 64, 128, 256GB
iPhone 11: 64, 128, 256GB
iPhone 11 Pro: 64, 256, 512GB
iPhone 11 Pro Max: 64, 256, 512GB
If you make it too hard for customers to feel well-informed about your devices, all but the most casual buyers will simply avoid your brand. Sales and revenue prove this out, Apple is on the verge of bankruptcy... what?
All of that is ignoring that literally every other android handset maker has dozens of phones on the market.
USB-C Supporters have been saying all the crappy USB 2.0 USB C cable are fake or counterfeit cables from Alibaba.
Now we have one, officially from Google.
Turns out faceID doesn't work great with people wearing face masks in these COVID times.
And people like me still like to use headphone jacks to connect to things like car audio systems etc.
If the 5 and 4A 5G come out with those features, I'll be first in line for one!
That's the big thing holding me (and many people) back from being able to completely let go of DSLRs. The P30 Pro is so close, it's a real revolution. But it's not quite good enough in many situations (autofocus is slow, any kind of action, low light is pretty bad.) Whatever company puts in a truly good quality, versatile telephoto lens... they'll have my money and a massive part of the DSLR market.
I have a feeling that it's going to be either Huawei incrementally improving their telephoto lens, Google delivering a computational breakthrough (and everyone else using it), or Apple/Samsung making some intricate, complex hardware.
My Pixel 3 XL has broken Bluetooth/wifi connectivity (even after a factory reset, "Bluetooth keeps stopping"). And it only connects via USB-C for headphone or charging some of the time in a specific orientation (even after cleaning out the charging port with a paperclip and flashlight).
The device is just out of warranty but within credit-card extended warranty so I'm thinking of rolling the dice on the $481 Google Store-mediated repair process and hoping they fill out a form that Amex provides. (Risk is that, after this problem showed up, I also dropped it and got a cracked screen, so Amex might not be on board with also reimbursing screen-crack repairs.)
Aside from not having reliable Wifi, Bluetooth, or USB-C connectivity I've been very happy with the Pixel and looking forward to using a 4A while I wait to see what happens with repairs on the 3XL.
Of all the newfangled phone features, an ultrawide camera (with the software to back it) seems to be one of the new truly worth while features. I never understood nor cared for the feature until my job gave me a new phone with that had one.
It would be quite the bummer to go back to having a phone without this feature.
So many phone reviews drone on and on about the latest Snapdragon 2934838 chipset with its 2^N cores and 2^N GB of RAM. The vast majority of us simply don't care for the horsepower nonsense. We're not looking to run hadoop on top of k8s on our phones. The cameras are really where things matter.
Non-flagship Android phones are visibly slower in a responsiveness than flagships. So yes, people do care, otherwise they would not be buying flagships, saving gobs of money and accepting that sometimes it takes several seconds to open an app.
Unrelated, but what the hell is the obsession with cameras? Are you all constantly on vacation, bumping into celebrities and taking Instagram pictures of your food or whatever?
I almost exclusively use my camera to take pictures of notes and other text that I need to reference later. Occasionally I need to share something noteworthy that's happening in real time with a friend but I don't need professional level photos for that.
Besides, even if you have low quality photos you can "easily" upconvert them using one of the many available open source super resolution neural nets.
I realize average people aren't going to know how to do that, and there's a convenience factor either way, but this community consists of fairly intelligent folks
The regular Pixel 4 does have a black, and white version that looks gorgeous from the back, but then the front design is an abomination, with the top being much bigger than the bottom.
Maybe I should just stick with LineageOS, I do not put sensitive information on my phone anyway.
Disregard the prices at gsmarena, they can be found for much less.
https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=9816&idPhone2...
(No, they don't, and it's been a dealbreaker for me for several generations. That plus low price plus stock android is the attraction of the pixel 3a and 4a for me.)
All that said, I'm happy using a Samsung phone - manufactured in Vietnam, has a headphone jack and sdcard slot, minimal bloatware, cheap.
But a year and a bit later, the software is already starting to slow down even with a reset (switching to video from photo incurs a good 5-10 second delay, opening the camera itself takes a few seconds), and the volume rocker on the side snapped when I was just turning down Spotify.
The "it's a bargain!" selling point is less of a thing in Europe, where they do some currency conversion fiddling. And the poor sales means aftercare is awful - my screen cracked a few weeks ago and I have to go to a third party, looking at 180euro.
Coupled with Google's terrible implementation of work accounts (want to just join a Meet on your work email? Wait while we set up an entire work profile, download the requirements etc. Oh but, by the way, the calendar app doesn't have any way to view your work profile events) and I'm less enthusiastic this time around, sadly.
FWIW that's really not normal. Sounds like I got my pixel 3a around the same time as you, and I haven't had any problems like that. I wonder if you have a hardware defect of some sort.
> Coupled with Google's terrible implementation of work accounts
What's special about work accounts? I added both my personal and work Google accounts without any issues and can see events from both in my calendar, switch between them in google drive, etc.
In calendar? Nothing.
I agree the camera thing does not sound normal, but again if it's a defect it does speak further to the "can tell the build quality was lower already" comment
Take any benchmarks with a grain of salt, of course, but it appears the 845 is only about 10% faster than the 730G on average. Still that double memory bandwidth certainly affects perceived performance a bit.
Also, the 4a doesn't have Fast Charging like the 3a.
0 - https://store.google.com/magazine/compare_pixel?toggler0=Pix...
- Spain, Italy: 389€
- Germany: 340€
- France: 349€
TL;DW: They're positioning it directly against the Oneplus Nord.
Personally I'm happy the Pocophone F1 finally has some competition in the quality-reasonably-priced segment.
For Normies the 4a will probably be the best software-wise while I still consider the Pocophone a great device due to its repairability and large battery (good FOSS ROM support is important but luckily given on such popular devices).
I'm currently looking for a phone and the Moto G Pro is easily available, an Android One device so gets proper updates for a long time as well and seems to have very comparable specs for less money.
> Australia (September 10), Canada (September 10), France (September 10), Germany, India (October), Ireland, Italy, Japan (August 20), Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and United States.
Ten years after the first Nexus, Google still doesn't know how to sell hardware.
Since Pixel 2 was the best phone across any OS I have used, I will probably stick with the Pixel line. I don't think I will upgrade this year but hopefully Pixel 5 has good flagship features and is not underwhelming like Pixel 4.
Now we're talkin'.
Some other manufacturers actually provide quarterly updates after those 3 years but are more inconsistent with delivering monthly updates.
I still think Apple has a better track record here, but 3 years is better than any other Android phone vendor that I'm aware of.
I went out for a run one day and it rained my phone got slightly damp in my pocket, never booted again and Google Support offered to repair it for ~£500.
Hard to consider spending that amount on a phone again.
I was a terrible critic of apple but now I own an iPhone just because I am fairly certain that I will be better treated if something happens and there's an actual physical store.
I just don't trust Google hardware anymore.
* audio jack
* affordable
* fingerprint reader
* lightweight
* good performance
* great camera
The answer didn't appear in a skim of the first several paragraphs, and like many here I don't care enough to RTWFA
Every time there's a new phone announcement, I hope.
Perfect dimensions, plastic body, headphone jack, yes! It'll make a nice replacement for my Moto X4.
The Zenfone 7 is the last major announcement this year for me to consider because otherwise its a compromise on one of those axis. Phones kinda suck.
So, while I don't think it's worth waiting for, I do think it is a good thing overall.
I can't help but think the 4a would have been perfect with a 4000mah battery.
The phone is a good value overall, but 3,100 mAh will hardly last you one day and be almost empty by night. I prefer phones with more generous batteries, so that there's never a risk of running out by the end of the day.
Hopefully Pixel 5a will come with 4,500-5,000 mAh next year, as many low-end $200-$300 phones have these days.
I'm interested in some of the recent flagships and gaming phones that have 5-6000mAh batteries and settings to not charge up to 100% every night. Once the battery is big enough, you can do things like that to extend the longevity. I'm hoping to see more of that.
Such a clean offer. I'm amazed.
EDIT: OK. I'm wrong. It actually has old Gorilla Glass. I hope that will make this phone way better than Pixel 3a which was completely disappointment because of poor glass choice (e.g. here is example of users experience https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/9205039?hl=en)