{"id":186,"date":"2024-09-13T15:28:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T15:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/13\/remembering-the-purple-ish-pixel-3a-2\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T21:36:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T21:36:38","slug":"remembering-the-purple-ish-pixel-3a-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/13\/remembering-the-purple-ish-pixel-3a-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Purple-ish Pixel 3a"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Quoting myself from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90362932\/this-is-a-love-letter-to-googles-purple-ish-pixel-3a-smartphone\">five years ago<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-accent-3-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.813), 1.2rem);\">Google\u2019s Pixel 3A phone has a lot of admirable qualities. It sports a great camera that rivals the higher-end Pixel 3. Like other Pixel phones, it\u2019s first in line for Android updates straight from Google. You can squeeze it to speak with the Google Assistant. And its starting price of $400 unlocked is tough to beat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.813), 1.2rem);\">If I\u2019m being honest, though, the best thing about the Pixel 3A is the \u201cPurple-ish\u201d color option.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.813), 1.2rem);\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:clamp(0.875rem, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 0.2rem) * 0.813), 1.2rem);\">The purple Pixel 3A\u2019s great triumph is in the way it manages to be distinctive and subtle at the same time. While Google has always offered at least one offbeat color scheme for its Pixel phones, the purple Pixel 3A is the company\u2019s high watermark.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning I pre-ordered an iPhone 16 Pro Max in &#8220;Natural Titanium,&#8221; and I&#8217;m sure it will be sufficiently slick. But Google&#8217;s early Pixels had a playfulness that I really miss\u2014even the plain white Pixel 3 had a minty green power button\u2014and the Purple-ish Pixel 3a with its tennis ball green power button hasn&#8217;t been matched since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Pasted-image-20240913112656-1.png\" alt=\"Pasted image 20240913112656.png\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Pasted-image-20240913112756-1.png\" alt=\"Pasted image 20240913112756.png\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Pasted-image-20240913112807-1.png\" alt=\"Pasted image 20240913112807.png\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just terrific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoting myself from five years ago: Google\u2019s Pixel 3A phone has a lot of admirable qualities. It sports a great camera that rivals the higher-end Pixel 3. Like other Pixel phones, it\u2019s first in line for Android updates straight from Google. You can squeeze it to speak with the Google Assistant. And its starting price [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","iawp_total_views":51,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-tech","h-entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jarednewman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}