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Google's Pixel 10a arrives on March 5 for $499 with specs and design of yesteryear
(arstechnica.com)
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The a series phones have been the best bang for your buck android phones since they have released imo. Plus they support GrapheneOS.
At 299 or 399, but at 499?? That's a hard pass. You can get a used pixel for less and better specs. I get it that people like new, but phone innovation has mostly stalled.
If you're buying an a series phone, you're probably not buying it for the features. You're buying it for the simplicity, long support life, and sturdiness. That phone will last 7+ years.
I've had several from the a series and I've liked them. I currently have the 9a and I hate it. The corners are very round, and important real estate (e.g. buttons, text fields) are regularly cut off and unreachable. There's no way to fix this that I've found.
Will this hardware support grapheneOS? Keeping a reasonably modern hardware updated with degoogled OS would be my next device.
The 10 series is supported. It may take a few months to add support, but I do not see a reason why it wouldn't get it. If you are buying it for Graphene, I would wait until they announce it is supported before jumping.
It will probably be faster because it is essentially the same device as the 9a the only differences that might affect software are that the screen has a slightly higher brightness and it has slightly higher charging speed. Everything else is the same even the soc
Likely the last, likely there's a rugpull (they can chose to stop providing security updates), but as advertised good for 7 years! gOS is a worthy aspiration, I'm thinking of updating, don't want anything else until, and if, linux phone happens.