When will I get my trade-in mailer to return my phone? From the trade-in confirmation screen: "You should receive a prepaid Trade In kit within seven business days after your new phone ships. Use this kit to send us your old phone". You will get an email confirmation that the mailer is being shipped to you, and that email will contain tracking info.
How does payment work with this trade-in? You pay for the entire phone up-front. The trade-in value will be credited back to your method of payment after your trade has been mailed in and assessed for value.
Does the trade-in mailer come with the delivery of the Pixel 6a/buds? No, it is a separate mailing.
Get 10% back in Store credit on Google Store purchases
Sweeten the deal and get a 10% google store credit for future google store purchases, if you sign up for Google One 2TB storage plan for 1 month (cost is $9.99/mo)
https://one.google.com/
WARNING: This relates to the 10% discount for purchasing 2 TB of Google One Storage. If you are upgrading your current paid plan, such as 100 GB, to the 2 TB plan, you will not receive the 10% credit for your purchases until the current billing cycle ends. Only then will purchases provide you the 10% credit 30 days after your order ships. Your subscription will immediately update to 2 TB but your billing account is still your old plan until the next billing cycle. You need to either wait to buy the phone, risking it goes OOS, or use a different Google account.
WARNING: I just upgraded and it gave me 10% credit. To the extent the above warning implies that you must wait to buy phone with store credit, this appears to be incorrect. You do may need to wait 30-60 days to receive the credit, depending on when your billing period starts and when the credit issues, which means you may be hit with a $9.99 billing cycle or two before the credit shows up, but $50 - $9.99 (x2) = $30.02 net profit if this occurs. The real danger is forgetting to cancel, set a Google calendar entry to downgrade/cancel your Google One. YMMV.
Q: What's a good case?
A: I bought this one because I wanted more protection and to show off the beautiful sage green color... and because Amazon has next day delivery and I want it NOW: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...UTF8&
I saw a $105 Refund Credited to PayPal / credit card. What is this?
Some are seeing a partial refund/credit, however this has typically been charged to the account again (i.e. you won't keep it as an extra discount). Speculation is this has something to do with the Pixel Buds portion of the offer. This is not believed to be related to the trade-in aspect of this offer.
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the reviews stating the slow finger print reader is concerning.
If i can go back in time, I would not buy the pixel 6 because the fingerprint reader is embarrassingly slow and misreads if you change lighting conditions. It's simply awful and makes checking the phone a chore. I hate it. No screen protector issue, not my phone (it was exchanged), and it's a common complaint. If you are coming from a phone that had even an average sensor, this will annoy you to no end.
The Google Tensor chips have such unreliable and poor mobile connections that a significant number of users have to reboot regularly or toggle airplane mode on/off just to get data working. It always happens when i drive. Check reddits pixel subs for more info. It doesn't look like any of those issues will be fixed because they simply aren't fixed in the flagships.
It seems to be an issue when you transition towers, so if you travel a lot or travel through dead zones, it'll happen more frequently. An unacceptable problem most in-studio reviews don't address, but real-world users struggle with, and have been since launch.
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All big tech cell companies save and store all your information from finger prints, facial recognition, bank info, pics, contacts, ALL OF IT and share it with the 3 letter agencies. Heck, even your phone cameras are taking pics without you knowing. If you dont think this is happening, you're living in a fantasy world.
Had my 4A for a year now and picked it up for $249. With the current trade-in value it's super tempting.
Using Amazon Photos so won't be missing Google Storage for pics.
Yay or Nay?
All big tech cell companies save and store all your information from finger prints, facial recognition, bank info, pics, contacts, ALL OF IT and share it with the 3 letter agencies. Heck, even your phone cameras are taking pics without you knowing. If you dont think this is happening, you're living in a fantasy world.
Take care,
Tofu Vic
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i'd say odds are very low short of user error. the trade in questions are so basic. does it turn on. is screen cracked. thats it.
as to this phone...cool phone but i always have the weirdest problem on pixels noone else ever talks about, that is to hit a comfortable everyday brightness for me you have to turn the display brightness slider to like 80%. which is only about equivalent to 50% on the Samsung's and one plus i'm used too. i never use auto brightness on any phone btw, it always tends to be too dim for me except when outdoors (I know they are supposed to adjust to your err, adjustments, but I just dont like the whole idea, 50% is good enough for 95% of the time for me). i manually adjust myself when needed. on the 4a i tried back i the day, it had pretty poor battery life, and i wondered if it was because the display brightness was turned to ~80%. I assumed it might be a way to use lower quality panels by google (could be wrong). Could also be a way for google to enforce better battery life. I had the same issue with my Pixel 6 so I quickly returned it.
Noone else EVER talks about this regarding pixels. So I guess most people like a comparatively dim screen to me. (but in my defense I'm only at 50% on a Samsung or OP which seems reasonable)
It's not a brightness issue per say because once at 80-100% the Pixels max brightness is similar to any other phone I've used, and also peak brightness is good according to review measurement. It's just the display brightness slider seems to calibrated differently.
TLDR, I dont like having to live in the 80-100% brightness band to be comfortable with pixels and also fear it causes bad battery life. Noone else on earth seems to have this problem.
Super tempted to trade in my 'fair' condition 3a-xl but not sure if it'll end up in a bait-n-switch once I pay the $450.
Extremely tempted.
Only thing holding me back is the lack of wireless charging and slow refresh of the screen.
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6.1" screen with the samsung galaxy s22 or pixel 6a is a big con for me. Once you start using phones with 6.5" screen or more, it is tough to go down especially if battery life suffers with smaller battery. I'm still tempted by this deal. I did enjoy my old pixel. Great user interface and the best cameras.
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