The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates
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Re: The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates
#2Can it call the emergency services?
Re: The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates
#3Seven years of updates is good, but how difficult is it to get the battery replaced by a trustworthy shop when it starts dying in three years?
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#5I purchased a Pixel 7a for work related testing a few weeks ago. It's a nice phone and rooting was very easy. I was impressed overall.
But those damn ads they deliver as notifications! WTF. Why would they do that.
It just reaffirmed my allegiance to Apple.
Re: The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates
#6I purchased a Pixel 7a for work related testing a few weeks ago. It's a nice phone and rooting was very easy. I was impressed overall. But those damn ads they deliver as notifications! WTF. Why would they do that. It just reaffirmed my allegiance to Apple.
What ads? I've had a pixel 7a for month, stock OS, and I'm not sure what you mean. I certainly don't get any ads via notification except for from 3rd party apps.
It's possible you have some Google app running and that's what's doing it? I would look into which apps the notifications are coming from, you should be able to completely eliminate the problem.
Re: The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates
#7I purchased a Pixel 7a for work related testing a few weeks ago. It's a nice phone and rooting was very easy. I was impressed overall. But those damn ads they deliver as notifications! WTF. Why would they do that. It just reaffirmed my allegiance to Apple.
To me the worst part of the 7a is the touchscreen, very often when I type a message some letters get typed many times and this is a known problem: https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/13wwqye/pixel_...
So I hope at least they solved this issue for the 8a
Re: The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates
#8I purchased a Pixel 7a for work related testing a few weeks ago. It's a nice phone and rooting was very easy. I was impressed overall. But those damn ads they deliver as notifications! WTF. Why would they do that. It just reaffirmed my allegiance to Apple.
Use next DNS.
Re: The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates
#9Really attractive, but i want to know if Google 'sells' your data in the ad-bidding process
Re: The $499 Google Pixel 8a is official, with 120 Hz display, 7 years of updates
#10I purchased a Pixel 7a for work related testing a few weeks ago. It's a nice phone and rooting was very easy. I was impressed overall. But those damn ads they deliver as notifications! WTF. Why would they do that. It just reaffirmed my allegiance to Apple.
I keep my notifications for almost all of my apps turned off. This includes "important" apps like Google Maps and Google Drive.
I only keep notifications ON for apps that I really really care about, which are mostly communication apps like WhatsApp, Signal etc.
I don't miss a thing. I feel mobile notifications are a cesspit full of crap. Every fucking website or app or game wants to send you notifications, and they're almost always 100% useless.
I use a Samsung phone and I in fact put all the muted apps in "deep sleep" as well.