If you’ve been keeping a close eye on the Pixel 4a rumor mill, you may remember Google’s next big mid-range smartphone was manhandled on video almost two months ago. That’s right, a Cuban vlogger somehow managed to get his hands on a fully working prototype of the highly anticipated stock Android-running 5.8-inch device before anyone else in the whole wide world, revealing all the key specifications that were then corroborated by multiple other rock-solid sources.

Encouraging is the word of the day

Although image brightness is not exactly impressive, and the same goes for photos captured at 8x zoom, it definitely looks like Google has yet another winner on its hands in terms of (camera) value for money. Even the 8MP front-facing shooter seems largely competent at producing decent self-portraits, especially when thinking about the widely rumored price point of the impending Pixel 4a.

Can the Pixel 4a challenge the blazing fast new iPhone SE?

If all we’ve heard in the last few months pans out, which is more than likely, the 5.8-incher will go for $399 in a 64GB storage variant, packing a respectable Snapdragon 730 processor, 6 gigs of memory, and a battery capacity of a little over 3,000mAh.

As far as camera performance is concerned, it’s obviously too early to know which of the two affordable handsets will prevail in real-life comparisons, but something tells us you’ll be more than satisfied from that standpoint whichever way you’re leaning.