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 was going to order one but reviews were saying that, due to the screen being slightly curved (??), that some screen protectors would not stay adhered.
My Pixel 3a had Insignia screen protectors which were fine but nothing for this phone yet.
I did order the Spigen Tough Armor case
Got this one. It is pretty good!
My two cents. The phone has been running hot since last night, only cooling off after I let it sleep overnight with no network connections. Will try using the phone normally again, but the phone is already warm now just with regular casual tasks. Updating google apps makes it toasty again. The only other phone I have used that gets this hot doing nothing is the Moto X Pure back in 2015.
The Pixel 3a, 4a, and 4a-5g were all fine after doing the same stuff.
I use TMO and VZ...TMO no issues picking up 5g SA and NSA towers...but you have a VZ sim, the phone does not seem to want to do any sort of 5G on their network (I know this unlocked phone model doesnt have mmWave, but it wont even do sub-6 5G).
It does get hot though but the battery life & performance is pretty good.
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I order this one from Amazon. I like that it came with the plastic guide that goes over the phone when applying the protector so that it goes on straight.
However, you're correct to callout the screen being slightly curved on the edges... because of this, the protector appears to not adhere all the way on the sides, so I'm sure debris will get trapped under there over time. I wish it was cut about 1/2 a millimeter smaller all around so it adhered to all the flat part of the screen.
* Usually screen protectors are made little bit smaller than the screen so people can use a case that overlaps and to take in consideration some curves. I am looking at my iPhone SE 2020 and the edges are slightly curved but the screen protector is a tad bit smaller so I don't get the halo effect. I got the halo effect with the Samsung Galaxy A71 5G with its slightly curved edges though.
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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.
When you add in the issues of eSIM compatibility with most of the network providers, without that $300, it would be totally not worth it
I don't have a screen protector yet so I can live with the onscreen fingerprint reader but the back reader on the 4a was so good and so intuitive, I really do not know why they changed it.
Going with the latest fad is not always a good thing and I cannot believe Google think they can charge $450 for this phone.
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