The 5 best features of Google's colorful new $400 smartphone (GOOG, GOOGL)

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• Google unveiled its latest smartphones on Tuesday at an event in Mountain View, California.
• The Pixel 3a line starts at $400 and retains many of the features of the far more expensive Pixel 3 from 2018.
• The new phones are aimed at people who are looking for a powerful smartphone without an absurd price tag.
• Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.

Google’s got two new smartphones that offer a tremendous value for their price.

The Pixel 3a, announced at Google I/O on Tuesday, starts at just $400 — a far cry from the $800 to $1,000 price that’s become standard among flagship smartphones.

Moreover, some of the best features from Google’s Pixel 3 are identical in the Pixel 3a. The camera, for instance, is nearly identical to the best-in-class Pixel 3.

But that’s not all! Here are the five best features of the new $400 Google smartphones:

SEE ALSO: I swapped out my $1,449 iPhone for Google’s new $479 Pixel phone, and it proved that phones don’t have to be so expensive

1. That price! $400!

In case it wasn’t already clear, a major selling point of the Google Pixel 3a and 3a XL is the incredibly low price — at just $400, the Pixel 3a comes in at half the price of its predecessor. 

And if we’re talking about Pixel vs. Apple’s iPhone, the price is less than half of the $1,000 iPhone XS. It’s nearly half the price of Apple’s less expensive version of the iPhone, the XR, that costs $750 to start.

The Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL are an incredible value for what you get.

2. The excellent Pixel 3 camera is nearly identical in the Pixel 3a.

The cameras in the Pixel 3a models are nearly identical to those in the Pixel 3 models. 

A quick look at how the two compare in terms of specs demonstrates how shockingly similar they are:

Spec for spec, they are extremely similar. The one major difference is that there’s only one front-facing camera on the Pixel 3a.

Sorry, selfie fans! This may not be the phone for you.

3. The return of the headphone jack.

It’s true: The Pixel 3a models both have a headphone jack. 

For some folks, this is potentially bizarre. Why is Google putting a headphone jack back into its new smartphone, years after Apple kicked off the trend by removing it from the iPhone? 

Because, for tens of millions of people, having a headphone jack is tremendously meaningful. No need to charge your Bluetooth headphones! No need to buy Bluetooth headphones! 

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