A Brief Comparison Between Apple iPhone SE 2020 And Google Pixel 3a

It will be one of the rare events for Google or Apple to launch affordable handsets. This year, we have both choices. The Pixel 3a by Google and the iPhone SE 2020 are among the cheapest phones that you can purchase. You can consider buying a Pixel 3a if you want stock Android experience and the fastest updates at an affordable price. The iPhone SE 2020, on the other hand, serves as a gateway to Apple’s ecosystem for users who don’t want to dig into their rainy day fund to buy an iPhone.

In this article, we are going to talk about the salient features of both phones.

Design

Both the iPhone SE and Pixel 3a are compact phones. The iPhone SE is more compact than most of the other phones available in the market. Its overall size and screen make it one of the smallest phones available. Both the iPhone SE and Pixel 3a have pretty outdated aesthetics, mainly due to the thicker bezels around the screen. The Pixel 3a has a bit thinner bezels, but it has a plastic body. The iPhone SE, on the other hand, has more premium materials, which include a glass back and an aluminum frame. It is water-resistant with the rating of IP67. The Pixel 3a doesn’t have any official water resistance rating.

Performance

The iPhone SE 2020 is an undisputed champion in this comparison, thanks to the A13 Bionic chipset, which makes it the performance beast. A highly optimized operating system ensures good overall performance.

The Pixel 3a offers pretty nice performance, but Snapdragon 670 SoC makes this handset more of a mid-range phone. This phone lags far behind the iPhone SE from the perspective of performance. Good thing is that Google keeps things well-balanced by releasing timely software updates, which the Pixel 3a downloads and installs almost instantly.

Camera

Both the iPhone SE 2020 and Pixel 3a have great cameras that should help you get the best shots of everything you want to capture. Both of them come with single-lens setup on the rear side, so you will not be able to take ultra-wide shots and telescopic images, but the camera results are still the industry best.

Battery

Both phones come with the least capable battery units. The Pixel 3a is equipped with a 3000mAh battery unit, whereas the battery unit installed in the iPhone SE is just 1821mAh. The Pixel 3a is better than the iPhone SE in this regard, but you cannot call it amazing.

A Short Comparison Between Samsung Galaxy S10 And Google Pixel 3

Samsung Galaxy S10 is arguably one of the best phones due to its far improved specs, new design, and large display. This phone is still the best deal for most of the buyers, even in the presence of the Galaxy S20 as another buying option.

Another option that you can consider here is Pixel 3 by Google. The Pixel 3 offers great features such as an ability to receive updates from Google instantly and an excellent camera. In this article, we are going to share a short comparison between Samsung Galaxy S10 and Google Pixel 3.

Specs

Performance and battery life

The main difference between both phones is related to the internal specs. The Pixel 3 comes with Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor and a 4GB RAM. The Samsung Galaxy S10, on the other hand, has Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 and 8GB RAM. The Pixel 3 has an internal storage of 128GB, while the Galaxy S10 offers up to 512GB.

The 3,400mAh battery unit in the Galaxy S10 is a little larger than the 2,915mAh battery in the Pixel 3. But this difference of battery units may become negligible because the Galaxy S10 comes with a larger display, meaning that it tends to consume more battery juice.

Design and durability

Samsung has stepped things up from the perspective of design in the Galaxy S10. An almost edge-to-edge screen and a punch-hole camera on the top right side make the front side unarguably attractive. The thick bezel is the chin, which is not that thick. On the backside, there is a triple-camera setup, but that doesn’t stop the backside from being minimalist, which undoubtedly adds more to the overall design of the phone.

The Pixel 3 has a dated look, but it, by no means, is a bad-looking phone. The sizeable forehead and chin are not according to the modern smartphone design standards. There is a single camera setup on the top left side of the backside. Both of these phones come with all-glass designs, and both have the water-resistance rating of IP68.

The Galaxy S10 may be superior to the Pixel 3 in terms of design, but both are equally durable.

Display

Google Pixel 3 comes with a 5.5-inch screen with a resolution of 2,160 x 1,080 pixels, making up a pixel density of 443 pixels per inch. These display specs are not that bad, but they are not as good as Samsung Galaxy S10, which comes with a 6.1-inch screen with a screen resolution of 3,040 x 1,440 pixels. The pixel density is 551 pixels per inch. The Galaxy S10 is the first phone to come with a display that is HDR10+ certified.

Camera

Google Pixel phones are known well for being the best camera phones, thanks to the artificial intelligence working at the backend of the camera hardware. The Pixel 3 may only have a single-lens camera setup, but Google has made sure that the phone uses this setup to the fullest. The camera on the backside sits in at 12.2 megapixels. This camera takes incredible shots in low-light situations.

The Galaxy S10 has an entirely different camera setup on its backside. It’s a triple-camera system comprising an ultra-wide 16MP lens, a standard lens of 12MP, and a telephoto lens of 12MP. This camera setup doesn’t promise excellent shots in low-light, but, instead, it offers tons of other features that equalize this phone with the Pixel 3.