With the deals I got for trade in and their black friday deal the pixel 8 costs me less than $300. But it doesn’t have a telephoto lens so I didn’t mention it. The 8a should be launching around May or so and will be cheaper. But it will possibly have a plastic body. Don’t know how much or a deal breaker that is considering the coating on all the pixels that are out right now. The 7a is what one of my friends has and we compared phones and his just about the same size as my 8 and the only thing he complains about is the lack of headphone jack. If you’re feeling froggy you could put Graphene OS on either one and my understanding is that this does wonders for usability for a lot of power users on either phone.