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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For those looking for a deal. Boost mobile has the iphone 2nd gen for $100 plan included. It gets $285 trade in at google. Just make sure to turn off autopay with boost mobile. They're sneaky and turn it on automatically.
One UI is significantly better than TouchWiz. That said, I still enjoy the clean Android experience that Google's own phones provides more, and I run Nova Launcher Prime [google.com].
I hope this helps,
Tofu Vic
edit- I purchased unlocked without a Google Fi plan
The one that they bricked with an Android update.
One UI is significantly better than TouchWiz. That said, I still enjoy the clean Android experience that Google's own phones provides more, and I run Nova Launcher Prime [google.com].
I hope this helps,
Tofu Vic
For the same price? S22 all day. The modem on the pixel 6 is atrocious. But at $150ish after trade in? The pixel 6a would be a no brainer.
Also, yes, the P6 modem is hot trash. It's my main complaint. It randomly drops WiFi (less on a cheap Asus than the expensive Xfinity one) and cell service (less on Google Fi than T-Mobile, strangely arrive they're the same network). I tried to take advantage of the S22 Plus for $450 months ago on Google Fi, and that phone wouldn't connect to WiFi at all. It was a mac address issue with the Xfinity router (beyond my tech abilities), so I sent it back.
I have even been able to completely block all audio by putting my hand in a very specific place between my phone and the earbuds.
Out of all the things earbuds are supposed to do, you'd think it would at least be able to play sound consistently.
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I picked up a Motorola Edge 256GB 2021 a couple days ago (deal at BestBuy) for $240. Great phone with WIFI 6E but it does not have an OLED/AMOLED screen. It does have 144hz screen, though which the Pixel 6a does not,
Hmmmm...now I'm wondering if I should just cancel?
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