Choosing the Google Store credit may seem the best option, but there is also a warning there. The discount applies only to Pixel phones and only to the devices that are not otherwise for sale.
The big question: why?
As we point out when Google First announced the updateMany 4a 4a batteries now have four to five years. Some have remained as secondary phones (or “garbage drawer”), and many are already at a decreased capacity, especially when low and cold load levels. If each pixel phone this old man received a final update with battery mentality, intended to avoid sudden turns (similar to Apple’s Iphone deceleration corrections originally not announced), there would not be the amount of protest and confusion there is now.
But Google has not said why certain Pixel 4A phones are “impacted devices” and others do not. He has not clarified what problem is so remarkable or severe as to boost an automatic update to a phone since 2020, so that its battery life is almost decimated. New news or community reports of Pixel 4A devices that cause fires have not yet emerged, or they just don’t work, after four years. It is an automatic update with a strong solution, but for what?
Google Support page He only states that the update “will improve the stability of your battery performance.” This is true in the sense that, if you stop using a severely limited pixel 4th, your battery can provide a stable amount of output (none) in the future.
Google support staff has suggested further that one 4th owner that another future update could force factory restoration and an automatic update. That has not happened, at least in the deadlines suggested by support staff. But all this raises the question of how this confusing process is better than a traditional retirement, if there are really any kind of danger, for devices or humans, with a certain set of batteries.