I was right to wait. Pixel 4a is awesome. And sad news about Automagic.

Four weeks before the Pixel 4a's rumored announcement date my Pixel XL OG died, as I described in my last post.

I really didn't want a non-Pixel phone so I waited for the Pixel 4a announcement. Thankfully it was made on August 3rd, the rumored date.

I ordered within minutes of its appearance on the Google Play Store and it arrived on 8/19. 

This is an awesome phone.

At $350 it has 80% of the value of $1400 dollar phones.

At that 20%, are things I do not care about.

This review summarizes my feelings well.

And in adding apps to my new phone, I just found out Automagic has stopped development. That is sad. It was my go-to automation tool for making my own widgets and more.  So I'm biting the bullet and finally learning Tasker. I had bought it years ago, but found the learning curve steeper than I wanted to climb.  It is still steep but there are now videos and more help documents, and I've already had several "ah-ha, that's how it works" moments in the first few minutes.