The Pixel 8A is every bit a Pixel

Google's entry-level phone is better than ever

There aren’t too many surprises with the Pixel 8A. The latest $500 Pixel follows Google’s A-series playbook in most of the ways you’d expect. But there are two main reasons why this is enough to make the 8A the best A-series Pixel yet.

The first is that over time, Google has been steadily reducing the feature gap between the A-series and its core Pixel …