A mess of its own making: Google nerfs second Pixel phone battery this year
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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.

kadup
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I wonder who chose the batteries that go in the phone designed by Google, what a mystery

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Well there are multiple companies that make the batteries

kadup
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I wonder who selected the companies to provide the batteries

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Why is this your random go to? Kinda apple user of you.

The Quuuuuill
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mate if a badly made product makes it into your hand it’s the company that made it and sold it to you’s responsibility. “we used a subcontractor” is not an excuse. this is not random. it’s simply saying that google made a crappy product by cutting corners intientionally to boost short term profits at the cost of their consumer. if you think that’s what apple users do you haven’t met a single one

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My wife uses apple. She’s had several phone updates that Nuke her battery. She’s also had a watch update that filled her storage up 98% that if she received a text through her watch it would say “storage is full”

What I don’t get it is, not ALL pixels are affected. Only SOME of them are. So Google has several suppliers to make their phones and only a few of those batteries are shit.

Not to mention Google said "we took this L, we will replace your battery for free"and everyone is like “NuH man Google just wants my money because I got their cheapest phone”

Keep in mind too, the 4a only had update support until 2023, this is knowledge you can understand when you purchase the phone. Like the 9a has update support until 2031

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Apple sources the worse lithium batteries known to man, they last a year and destroy themselves. I have no idea why you’re bringing Apple to this discussion.

I’ve dealt with Chinese devices with batteries that still worked fine six years after being bought.

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Google loves to cheap out if they think they can get away with it, just look at the modem on the 8 series

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