This month is the final month of guaranteed major and security updates, and we already know Android 14 won’t land in the Pixel 4a (though it will in the Pixel 4a 5G as it has guaranteed updates until November).
So for those of you who own that phone, what do you plan to do with it? Are you going to keep using it for a couple more years without the updates? Install a custom ROM (which one?)? Or are you maybe planning to get a new phone (a Pixel?)?
If you still own an older Pixel phone, how are you keeping it alive?
I’ll use this phone until the battery won’t hold without being plugged in all the time. Then I’m not sure. I’d like another pixel, but there isn’t a pixel anymore that isn’t massive. It used to be that the main phone with all the features was larger and the sub phone with less features was a bit smaller. I usually opt for the smaller phone because I like a phone that suits my small hands and can also fit in my pocket. Now I’m worried my next phone will be too big to fit in my pants and I won’t be able to reach the other end of the screen with my thumb. Not to mention they don’t have a physical fingerprint reader anymore. My husband has a 6 and he stopped using the fingerprint function because it just didn’t work 80% of the time. And don’t get me started on the headphones jack. I have a Bluetooth headset, but you know those run out of battery sometimes and some cars are a pain to connect to. That’s the least of my worries, but it’ll be a bandaid I have to rip off for sure. Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted talk. I’ll probably buy the stupid new Google tablet because I’m a hypocrite 🙂
The s23 is fairly compact by today’s standards. Mind you, I returned the s23 and got a Pixel 7 Pro 🤷♂️
I’d give the Pixel 7 pro a huge thumbs up. Not overly keen on huge phones but the trade-off is an amazing camera and really great performance.