CHERLYNN LOW: I never thought I'd be a $350 phone type of girl. I've always felt like a mid-range phone wouldn't be powerful enough for my daily needs or have good enough cameras for my Instagram ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

The Google Pixel 4a is a mid-range smartphone that was released in 2020 at a time when Google was only promising to deliver software and security updates for three years. But earlier this month Google ...

Last month, Google released an unexpected Pixel 4a update which was related to undisclosed battery concerns, and as it turns out, the update apparently cuts usable charge by over 40%, along with some ...

Google's Pixel 4a was a great phone back when it came out, and it got significantly more praise than its bigger siblings, the ...

Google’s Pixel 4a has long been considered a great smartphone for those on a budget, but it just received a software update that calls that into question. The update lowers the reported battery life.

Google’s surprise battery update for the Pixel 4a has caused severe battery drain for many users. Google has removed older firmware for the Pixel 4a, leaving users with no official way to downgrade ...

The Pixel 4a, a well-regarded release in Google’s line of budget-minded phones with nice cameras and decent stock software, was not supposed to get any more updates. This week, it will receive a ...

WTF?! A few years after discontinuing the device, Google unexpectedly released one more update for the Pixel 4a budget phone. While the company anticipated a "shorter" battery life after the update, ...

At the start of 2025, Google announced a Pixel 4a Battery Performance Program with a new Android 13 OTA update, free battery replacement, and/or appeasement option. As part of this, Google has removed ...

Google didn’t explain exactly why it shipped a mandatory software update to the Pixel 4a, an Android phone from 2020, earlier this year. The nature of that update, which gave some models all but ...

A recall notice from an Australian safety regulator has confirmed the reasons behind the unexpected Pixel 4A update. A recall notice from an Australian safety regulator has confirmed the reasons ...