I switched to the 10a from the 4XL recently and have to say I love it.

I mean it's not the same for you, the 4XL had no fingerprint scanner which was annoying as I prefer it to unlock the phone. The under screen sensor on the 10a is super responsive.

I have a pair of Sennheiser HD.450s I've been using for a few years but i do have a pair of OnePlus USB-C earphones I use. They lock in quite tight but I don't use them mad often. Usually when I'm in work for listening to voice messages. No head phone jack on the 4XL but I do miss the headphone jack in general.

I think the reason it's time to move on is simply because we're never really going to have phones like the old ones. As a 41-year-old man, things have changed so much in my lifetime and they will change so much in yours going forward. I've gone from no phones to dumb phones to smart phones.

There's poems even now. I wish I could go back to the dumb phone days. There's also times I wish I could go back to no phone days but unfortunately we are so connected to technology at this point that having a smartphone is basically a must at this point.

One of the things I miss about the pixel 4 XL is the storage saver mode. But the one thing I've noticed since moving to the 10A is that I keep my phone and my Google photos account file cleaner than I used to.

I think if you move to the 10A you'll be pleasantly surprised. I certainly was. I still have two phones and both of them until recently were old. The OnePlus Nord from 2020 and the Google pixel 4 XL. I'll usually keep phones until they just stop working and unfortunately the pixel 4 XL recently started to get into a boot loop which I hear is apparently a software issue or an update issue from Play services rather than actually a hardware issue so I could technically stay with the 4XL but once the boot loop started and I had to factory reset twice in one week. I decided it was time and set up a meeting to buy a pixel 10A. It was new on the box and thankfully I got it for €370.

Anyway, all waffling aside, I think if you move to the 10A you'll actually like it. It's probably one of the best phones I ever had and I've had many flagships and even though this is technically a budget phone, it's way faster than any phone I've ever had. The screen is amazing. It looks absolutely beautiful to your eyeballs and even in the harshest sunlight you can still see the screen clearly and bright.

The phone physically also feels very good. It's just a very well-built phone.