Pixel 9a

I was in the same store yesterday and they were giving me 200 for my sons old A14 but I just wanted the phone. Son is on Gomo. He said phone would be locked to Vodafone ??
Is this right ?
Reading here previously and people mentioned Pixels were not locked to network.

Need to have my story straight why I dont want to port current number to Pixel 9a.

Yeah. That's not true. I got the same spiel and ended up taking a sim, which I dumped outside the shop. All pixels are unlocked

I don't think phones come locked anymore - they got rid of that years ago

I went into a Vodafone shop today with a Xiaomi 13T to trade in….on the website, its telling me I would get €86 trade in, but when I went in store, they were only offering €36….WTF?!

Anyone else's pixel get hot? I don't have too many apps on it. It just randomly gets hot

no issues with heat so far either

Any idea why it happens?

Is it still possible to get the Pixel 9a cheaper? My wife's 6a is saying the battery may be unsafe. Google have offered €85 cash or €125 Google Store credit. The phones are mad expensive from on there now.

I can't find it on the website but was thinking she could trade in her 6a and take the €85 from Google

The 9a is now €560 on there.

I went through the rigmarole of valuing my wife's phone on the site. They are offering €52 there. Is the €200 boost still a thing?

It asked me to log in though when going through the process.

Just seeing that PAYG needs to be in store.

Does anyone know if we can trade in the faulty 6As with Google against a new phone after claiming the compensation credit?

They'll give an extra €100 trade in bonus against a 9 for the 6A. Should work out around €425 for the phone including both trade in and credit.

The 9a charges at 23w Vs 18w of the 6a.

Use Ampere to check the speeds you get with different cables and chargers. I get about 4500mA with the 9a.

We had a few Pixel 6a and none of them got close to that. My old Xiaomi did 33w I miss that speed. But that phone had got to old.

All I know is when I get a good reading from Ampere get a faster charging than I do when I get a low reading. So it's not that I'm saying it's accurate but it a way of testing your cables and chargers to see which ones work best with your phone.

Which cables are damaged and which chargers are incompatible. Too many weird standards on these chargers. A lot say they are a certain standard but actually aren't. All our previous pixels really only got their best charging speed with a Google charger. The 9a is the first one I've had that works well better with a third party PD charger.

To be accurate you'd need a usb tester. But who has one of those.

These been recalls on certain batches of previous pixels. Maybe you've got a bad one. They aren't all identical. Often batches have different batteries or different screens. One of our 6a's had a much yellower screen than the others. I used that as the trade in.

I find chargers a bit of a lottery even branded ones. I've been testing them since QC (Quick Charge) came in and had it on my Lumia's.

My Xiaomi one seemed to work with every thing except those older pixels. Now have some 33w and 65w and even a 100w charger. I've tested them on my laptops etc.

Same with cables. Over time the kids damage my good cables so I started testing them as well. A shorter thicker cable.

People don't seem to realise the charger and the phone have to be compatible with each other to handshake and get the best speeds. They think they are all the same.