A mess of its own making: Google nerfs second Pixel phone battery this year
arstechnica.com
People don’t upgrade phones every year anymore—longevity matters.

I wonder if there is something subpar about whoever Google is getting the batteries from for the A series phones.

  • SolidShake@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The pixel 4a only had a guaranteed update life up to 2023. And again if you read the article it’s to prevent your phone from exploding. I know it’s annoying, my wife has an iPhone and Apple seems to do this shit on every model older than 2 years old. But if the 4a is 2 years past its promised “service time” then why not just get a 9a that has a 7 year “service time”? I know it’s easier to complain and bitch about it but when the pixels first started coming out their guaranteed updates were NOT long to begin with.

    • bob_lemon@feddit.orgEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Because the 9A a) costs money, which I currently don’t want to spend (especially not on Google), and b) is significantly larger than the 4A, which I specifically bought for it’s small form factor.

      And I seriously doubt the only way to keep my phone from exploding is to push a patch that makes it so the device itself seemingly has problems figuring it the charge level of the battery it tries to keep from exploding.

      I cannot stress enough how god awful this “patch” was. They completely phoned it in, doing just the bare minimum to ward off class action lawsuits or consumer protection agencies.

      I will buy a new phone quite soon since CalyxOS also stopped updating it now. But the Pixel A series obviously comes with a major liability now.