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Am I the only one excited for this conference? My Pixel 4A can't hold a charge any more and I've been holding out for the 7A.

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The 4a battery is relatively easy to replace due to the pull tabs, was a fun little project: https://www.ifixit.com/products/google-pixel-4a-battery-genu...

I’m holding on to my Pixel 4a until they make one that’s smaller & lighter. Not liking the trend of bigger and bigger phones.

It also has a headphone jack, which is getting harder and harder to find these days.

Even if you usually use bluetooth headphones... it's still nice to have a backup. There's lots of situations where headphone jack input is simpler, easier, faster, and more reliable than messing with bluetooth.

I've had a 4a since launch but I was planning to wait out for the 9a. (The cheap OnePlus I had before survived 5 years so I'd hope for at least the same.)

Battery degradation hasn't been an issue for me at all, but maybe I'm using my phone less than average. Still goes from morning to bedtime without me thinking about or looking at the charge.

I had a OnePlus 1 and later a 3t for an impressively long time. I wish they would go back to the flagship specs / mid-range price model with the build quality they used to have.

yesss not many more small Android phones out there

either Google comes up with something nice or I'm getting a used iPhone SE

I'm not sure if it'll ever come back. I loved my Pixel 3 at 5.5" but nothing else for the past 5 years has come close. I eventually relented and got a Pixel 6a at 6.1"

Display size isn't a consistent means of measuring the physical size.

My S21 (6.2") is within a mm of my Pixel 3a (5.6") due to the reduction in bezel.

It's relevant enough if you're concerned about RSI or CTS and such

In that case display size is a measure of how much strain you're putting on your hands to navigate the huge screen. A smaller screen means less reaching.

Also smaller display size means less content, less instagram posts, less twitter feed, less interest on your phone in general in my perspective

Every 2-3 years I am severely tempted by The Other Side, especially as a very happy Macbook user. But every time, there's a new phone that's just nice enough to keep me around.

Same, I'm a Pixel user and happy Macbook user, but every time I use an iOS device I have such a terrible experience. I purchased a 10th generation iPad for my daughter. The parental controls are simply broken. When installing apps, the child has to click "Ask" and the notification never appears on my wife's iPhone. And only one parent can be the account "manager". Because I'm pretty good with Google, I was able to find some random Reddit post which has a workaround (the solutions in the Apple forum never worked). You can go into the iPhone's settings and rename the phone, e.g. from "iPhone" to "iPhone 2" then the iPhone starts receiving the notifications from the iPad.

Well, I purchased a second iPad 10th gen for my younger daughter and the same exact problem. Out of the box this basic feature just doesn't work reliably. We're at the point we're renaming my wife's iPhone once a month.

That's just one specific problem we've had, but really it's been a disaster. The setup for both iPads was full of bugs and random issues. Both iPads randomly fail to install updates overnight. I don't recall the last time my Android has ever failed to do a system update. It's just really surprising for me because I assumed a device in it's 10th generation with such a good reputation would be rock solid.

6a ain't bad, got it for like $100 with a trade-in of my 3a I had since 3a launch

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