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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I won't be chatting until after I receive the phone, but I'll keep you updated.
Take care,
Tofu Vic
* I really enjoyed the Pixel 3a user interface and the camera so I know that will be big PROs for me. I don't remember having bugs with the Pixel 3a so I am not sure what the bugs about the later Pixel are about.
* I picked the Pixel Buds (Dark Olive) as I think they look really cool in that color. Hopefully they are somewhat near as good as my Samsung Galaxy Buds+.
* Last year I really didn't see many great deals for the Pixel 5a 5G (probably due to the pandemic) so I didn't expect to see a great deal for the Pixel 6a. I am glad that I was wrong. Good job by Google. I had Pixel 6a as #1 on my watch list to upgrade to and with Samsung A series or S21 FE being #2 and Motorola Edge 2021/Stylus 5G 2022/23 being #3.
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On an old car, Bluetooth phone call audio was very distorted, unless I disabled media audio on the phone side. Other Bluetooth devices were okay. This car works fine with my 3a. At home, the fingerprint reader may have been a tad slow, but it was okay. Trying it in the car, was more of an issue. Maybe I could have taken more fingerprints at a slightly different angle for the car mount.. I don't know. During the two days, I once had an issue where it would not send or receive phone calls, while data did work. I needed to restart the phone. My SmartWatch disconnects at a closer distance than my 3A. Turning off 90 HZ, it didn't seem noticeable enough to me, for what I do. Maybe if I did a side-by-side, or use 90 Hertz for longer, it would be more of an issue for me. Regarding the pixel buds a, I want to use them mostly for a phone calls ... inside an office, not car. I hate the ear plug feeling of most earbuds.. and the lack of side tone. as well, most start making the inside of my ears sore. I'm hoping, based upon reviews, these would seem to be better for my use case. I have no idea if they have side tone, but at least if I can hear myself through the headphones, it would be okay. As well, I'm thinking of using one earbud at a time for both this reason and for power conservation, due to the low battery life.
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