{"id":290317,"date":"2025-11-29T21:01:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/290317\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T21:01:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:01:16","slug":"the-android-phone-you-should-buy-your-dad-is-just-349","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/290317\/","title":{"rendered":"The Android phone you should buy your dad is just $349"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Not to generalize, but the Google Pixel 9A is a classic dad phone. It\u2019s not fussy. It\u2019s durable and scheduled to get software updates for the better part of a decade. It\u2019s a solid deal at its full $499 MSRP, but the Black Friday price of $349 is even sweeter. It\u2019s the lowest we\u2019ve seen the 9A on sale for, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/789306\/amazon-october-prime-day-google-pixel-9a-deal-sale-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">matching its Prime Day price<\/a>. If Dad missed out on it back in October, he can strike now while the iron is hot again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Of course, you don\u2019t have to be a dad, a dude, or anyone in particular to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/phone-review\/646135\/google-pixel-9a-review-a-midrange-phone-done-right\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appreciate the 9A<\/a>. It\u2019s missing some of the fancier features on the flagship Pixel phones (it\u2019s now the only Google phone that doesn\u2019t come with a telephoto camera), but it has a solid processor and a reliable camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">It runs Google\u2019s streamlined Android implementation, so it might appeal to someone who finds Samsung software a little cluttered. And at $349, it\u2019s also a good bet for anyone who wants to pay out of pocket for a phone and avoid financing or carrier deals. It\u2019s a heck of a value proposition for the no-nonsense person in your life \u2014 dads and otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not to generalize, but the Google Pixel 9A is a classic dad phone. It\u2019s not fussy. It\u2019s durable&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[73079,979,786,59,844,2305,227,86,56,54,55,104804],"class_list":{"0":"post-290317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-black-friday","9":"tag-deals","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-google","13":"tag-google-pixel","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom","19":"tag-verge-shopping"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}