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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You have posted many times here about how they screwed you last time you tried this.
If I would have had your previous experience, there would be no way I would ever do another trade-in.
You have posted many times here about how they screwed you last time you tried this.
If I would have had your previous experience, there would be no way I would ever do another trade-in.
I've watched some videos saying that this has older April patch and should get an update soon or something? I hope this is true. I miss my 4a.
Pixel 6a kept getting hot. Restarted the phone twice, Updated all the apps. Made sure data etc is copied. Powered off and Powered on. Used Elixir 2 Widgets app to measure temperature on both phones. For normal tasks such as Video, browsing, music etc - Pixel 6a was almost 5-10 degree celsius hotter than the Pixel 4a 5g. And if you do a video call, game or do anything similar - the phone would go over 40-45 degree Celsius. The phone definitely has a thermal issue.
Pixel 6a, the screen is slightly smaller vs 4a 5G. The camera seems to be the same. No unlimited compressed photo storage in Pixel 6a vs 4a. Fingerprint reader on 4a 5G better.
Real life performance of the Tensor chip in 6a didn't see any better than Snapdragon 765G in Pixel 4a 5G. I didn't run benchmarks, but the usual apps seemed the same on both phones.
Now - I'm not saying Pixel 6a is a bad phone. It's good for the price, but it doesn't offer anything substantial over the last generation Pixel 4a, Pixel 5a phones. I'm not sure what Google is trying to do here. Hopefully people get their trade ins and get this phone for cheap. Because for $449 - it makes NO SENSE.
Pixel 6a kept getting hot. Restarted the phone twice, Updated all the apps. Made sure data etc is copied. Powered off and Powered on. Used Elixir 2 Widgets app to measure temperature on both phones. For normal tasks such as Video, browsing, music etc - Pixel 6a was almost 5-10 degree celsius hotter than the Pixel 4a 5g. And if you do a video call, game or do anything similar - the phone would go over 40-45 degree Celsius.
Pixel 6a, the screen is slightly smaller vs 4a 5G. The camera seems to be the same. No unlimited compressed photo storage in Pixel 6a vs 4a. Fingerprint reader on 4a 5G better.
Real life performance of the Tensor chip in 6a didn't see any better than Snapdragon 765G in Pixel 4a 5G. I didn't run benchmarks, but the usual apps seemed the same on both phones.
Now - I'm not saying Pixel 6a is a bad phone. It's good for the price, but it doesn't offer anything substantial over the last generation Pixel 4a, Pixel 5a phones. I'm not sure what Google is trying to do here. Hopefully people get their trade ins and get this phone for cheap. Because for $449 - it makes NO SENSE.
As far as the phone running hot, I hear it gets better. I hope it does but will see.
Camera is the same, they have been using the same sensor since Pixel 2. Does not bother me, its a great sensor and Google has great post-processing, for my needs anyway. Have to step up to the 6/6 Pro to get newer sensor, I'd just wait for the Pixel 7 if I wanted a new sensor.
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As far as the phone running hot, I hear it gets better. I hope it does but will see.
Camera is the same, they have been using the same sensor since Pixel 2. Does not bother me, its a great sensor and Google has great post-processing, for my needs anyway. Have to step up to the 6/6 Pro to get newer sensor, I'd just wait for the Pixel 7 if I wanted a new sensor.
But hopefully one that can be fixed.
The Camera is great obviously. Honestly, I have the Pixel 6 as my daily driver and I really don't see a huge difference in Pixel 6 photos vs Pixel 4a 5g/Pixel 6a photos. Obviously I'm not a photo guru, but for the usual stuff, I'd say Google nailed the cameras since Pixel 2, and using a bigger 50 mp lens on Pixel 6 didn't benefit them that much. I mean the newest Samsung flagship and Iphone 13 take better pictures now, unfortunately for Google.
As for the fingerprint reader, you can do up to 5. I'd register the right thumb twice. That improves it significantly. Obviously the Pixel 3/4/5 fingerprint would be better, but I think Pixel 6a fingerprint reader is marginally better than Pixel 6 FP reader. You will get used to it eventually, but it will never be as good as the ones in 3,4,5 series.
I'm hard on phones, and these cases appear to provide rugged protection.
Might not be for you if you prefer a slim case.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Y112...ct_de
I've watched some videos saying that this has older April patch and should get an update soon or something? I hope this is true. I miss my 4a.
I ended up enrolling same fingers and thmbs twice on 6 pr which helped a bit.
Seeing same issue on 6a also
I'm hard on phones, and these cases appear to provide rugged protection.
Might not be for you if you prefer a slim case.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Y112...ct_details [amazon.com]
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The phone ran hot during setup but not since... this is typical heat and I did not find it surprising. If it ran that hot all the time I'd be concerned, but once everything was set up and I rebooted the phone it has been fine.
I'm leaving the buds sealed in their box until the Pixel 3a credit comes. If something goes wrong I'll sell the sealed buds as a hedge against the loss of trade-in value.
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After breaking 3 pixel's within 1 year, I decided that it might be time to purchase a better case.
The only good thing about breaking 3 pixels is that I had no shortage of phones for trade in.
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