Next to come out is the motherboard, with some wiry antenna barnacles attached to its underside.

Some find it alarming, but what better type of hands to pull out a couple tiny cameras?

The 3a inherits the well-reviewed 12.2 MP rear camera from the Pixel 3. Instead of having two 8 MP selfie cameras, the 3a only has one, averaging the ƒ/1.8 and ƒ/2.2 aperatures to a middling ƒ/2.0.