 Hey guys, Thundee here and welcome to another Battlevid. Now this one is between the $350 Pixel 4a versus the $400 OnePlus Nord to find out which Android smartphone is the best at of course a budget price point. Now there is a variant of the OnePlus Nord that's $335 in India, 6GB of RAMs you know that kind of thing but we're gonna go and again that's the special limited edition so limited run. Let's just go with the front round bottom. Anyway the start off with the specs of the Pixel 4a. 4a is 5.8 inches or the display, lovely looking display, 1080p. I like the fact that it's got you know nice bezels around a little thicker than the bottom but I'm cool with that. Always on display, HDR display as well but it's powered by the Snapdragon 730 processor. A little older processor, you've got no SD card slot and you also have 6GB of RAM, 120GB of storage. That's it. UFS 2.1. Now there's a single camera in the back 12 megapixels with a flash and the front facing camera is 8 megapixels. 4K 30 in the back, 1080p 16 in the front or 1080 120 actually max in the front. So you've got that. You also have stereo speakers as well and you have a 3,140 milliamp battery so sizable battery in this bad boy here. So besides the battery you've also got charging at 18 watts with an 18 watt charge of a USB type-c and the headphone jack as well so all those things to do. Now moving over to our friends with the OnePlus Nord. Now the OnePlus Nord comes in with 6.44 inch display. Now its display is nice 1080p, HDR 10 plus, 90 Hertz refresh rate. Again for gamers like us we care about that. Powered by the Snapdragon 765 processor. We also have 6 to 12 gigs of RAM and we've got 128 to 250 gigabytes of storage. In terms of cameras we've got a 48, an 8, a 5, and a 2. So four cameras in the back, two cameras in the front, a 32 and an 8. It's got a wide angle lens in the front as well. So you've got that and you've got recording 4K 16 in the front, 4K 30 at the back. So that is just something to take note there. Now in terms of battery we've got a 4,150 milliamp battery and we've got fast charging WAP 30 charge T on this device. So when you talk about performance the easiest way to do this is let's look at some games. We're going to look at Call of Duty, PUBG and Fortnite to see how both devices perform. Quickly we show you some settings and also the kind of performance we get from both devices. First thing you know, Call of Duty Mobile plays well almost any device. So that's a given. I've just wanted to use it as the baseline and then when we move over to PUBG Mobile we do know a 765 processor can actually play at higher set settings but that's not available yet for the OnePlus Nord but both of them had similar settings for of course gameplay. But when it came to Fortnite, Fortnite ran at 45 frames per second on the OnePlus Nord at the highest settings while on the Pixel 4a it ran at 30 frames per second at medium to low settings. So if you're going to look for the best gaming experience the OnePlus Nord is going to be that device for you and also in terms of temperatures the OnePlus Nord ran definitely cooler than the Pixel 4a which ran temperatures up to 104 degrees or 41 degrees Celsius. So very warm in that respect. Now we heard audio from both devices. Let's take a quick speaker test and we'll see with my very unscientific test who's louder and also who actually sounds better. So surprisingly the OnePlus Nord hits about 107.8 decibels. That's pretty loud and the Pixel 4a does 102.5 decibels which is good really good but which one actually sounds better. I would have to go with the Pixel 4a with its stereo speakers sounding much cleaner and clearer than the OnePlus Nord which was just loud and you couldn't tell which were the highs or even the mids with that song playing. With the Pixel 4a you could hear the different range of tones and that's something to take note. So audio wise speakers Pixel 4a plus you've got Bluetooth 5.0 and you've got a headphone jack so at least it's a triple threat when you think about listening to audio on this device. Now when it comes to battery life that is something we're all concerned about with devices like this and as I mentioned the Pixel 4a has a 3,140 milliamp battery while the OnePlus Nord has a 4,150 milliamp battery a bigger battery also a bigger device. When we look at how long they last well I'm gonna just hand it over to my buddy the Unlocker who did his of course all the battery tests with both devices you can go check out the full videos but from his findings we find out that the Pixel 4a ends at 10.18 pm at 16% while the OnePlus Nord ends at 10.17 at 17%. So around the same and they last pretty much at least a good 12 hours or so for working day but the difference here is that 17% of battery left on 4100 milliamps is more than 16% left on a 3100 milliamp battery so the longer battery life will go of course to the OnePlus Nord. Now cameras the big thing at least for the Pixel 4a. The Pixel 4a is known for its cameras the the Pixel 3a line started this the Pixel 2a line and the 4a continues that tradition but the OnePlus Nord is no slouch as well we've seen in other videos. When you compare them in daytime photos looking at the flowers and things like that they look really similar the bokeh effects will look really nice I will say when it comes to humans you look into the bokeh effects I think the Pixel is a little bit better around humans with a front-facing camera there and I do like the reclamation of light that the OnePlus Nord does especially standing under the umbrella where the Pixel is much darker and the OnePlus Nord is brighter but when it goes to nighttime photography this is where the Pixel 4a really shines the low light photography looks really good there's more light reclamation around the objects you can clearly see you know the the benches and things around much better than the OnePlus Nord. The OnePlus Nord does a decent job but the Pixel 4a looks more like a high-end device at least looks more than $350 worth of photography here so that point is clear now when it comes to video I'll just let you take a look okay so I'm recording off the front-facing cameras on both devices on the Pixel 4a and of course the OnePlus Nord uh so you can see how they do one because of 4k 60 which is the OnePlus Nord and the other records at 1080 60 so I believe 1080 60 but anyway uh so you have that and then we will switch to the rear cameras now both work cameras shoot at 4k 30 and just a glimpse of the city there you can see the sun in both shots and of course we've been switching audio for you um I am going to walk around a little bit and I'll jog back just for a quick stabilization also two notes the OnePlus Nord has a um uh super steady mode so you have that there with the Nord uh and uh we will uh do just a light jog so with video we can see that the Pixel 4a is front-facing camera still doesn't hit the mark it's softer uh and the OnePlus Nord does a really good job there rear cameras I think they are almost about the same but a slightly better stabilization to me on the Pixel 4a and of course the OnePlus Nord has super steady mode which is affected by of course reduced uh lighting but it does have that feature built in I think when you look at both devices overall you're gonna go if you're looking for more gaming and maybe longer battery life the OnePlus Nord is that device for you if you're looking for photography quick and easy and simple and also looking for the backup of Google services uh as well as also uh Google's software features then the Pixel 4a is that device for you I think what you have here is a separation of functionality where the Pixel 4a really focuses on simplicity in photography and giving you an all day battery life experience while the OnePlus Nord is trying to bring some of the high-end experience all encompassing into a device that is much cheaper and has successfully done that so on one hand you've got photography on the other hand you've got a all-round performance let me know what you think which would you pick the Pixel 4a or the OnePlus Nord leave your thoughts down below don't forget to like share subscribe and always enjoy your entertainment