https://medium.com/pcmag-access/with-pixel-3a-google-finally-delivers-on-the-promise-of-android-f5581679ba5f > PCMagBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingMay 15Android was intended to make smartphones easier to build and more accessible to consumers. That has largely failed, but the Pixel 3a is an affordable, ubiquitous smartphone, finally realized. > When Google announced the Pixel 3a and its larger cousin, the 3a XL, at the Google I/O developer conference, it spearheaded a badly needed course-correction on the out-of-control smartphone market.