As the official tech nerd in my family, the best bang for your buck phones, like the Google Pixel 8a, to my relatives and friends. After all, it’s getting harder to tell them apart from premium flagships. For example, the Pixel 8a has a very nice design, great performance, an amazing camera, and an overall awesome experience. But there’s one area in which these cheaper phones usually suffer more, and that is water resistance. How does the Pixel 8a handle water?
Read on for all the finer details, but also be sure to check out the video above, where I put the Pixel 8a through three different real-life tests to see how the phone lives up to Google’s claims.