English: https://9to5google.com/2024/03/05/google-pixel-8a-reportedly-getting-another-price-increase/
Once again Google finds a way to ruin a good thing. With a $150 price difference between the 8a and main 8 series, I have absolutely no reason to purchase the 8a. There was a time when the A series was half the price of the main series.
The only reason we have $2k flagships is because they have more premium features which people with lots of disposable income would want to buy. But where are these features now? Provided you aren’t shoving extra displays in your device for kicks, everything is ubiquitous (or you’re just paying extra for a SaaS unlock). If Tensor G3 sucks like G2 sucks, that impacts all Pixel 8’s, not just the A.
There’s no more space in the market for an A model and a flagship model. In terms of being the appropriate option for the average person looking for a new phone (i.e what a flagship actually is in principle), the A model is the flagship now.
That’s why the price is increasing - it’s too popular, they’ve realised price is once again the driving factor behind most purchase decisions and are now acting to try and preserve the status quo of people buying needlessly expensive handsets for no reason.
I bought a Pixel a because it has a headphone jack. I only cared about one thing. When mine dies, I’ll buy whatever still has a headphone jack.
This just gets worse and worse, but I still think the lack of sd card slot is the worst thing they never included in the pixel series, and now they are going ahead and fucking with the A series so that it’s barelly any cheaper than the flagship?
Google needs to take a steap back and reconsider it.
Aside from the Nexus One, Google phones have not had micro SD card slots. It’s crazy how one part of the company (Google Drive) can influence the other (Nexus/Pixel).
Then again, Samsung makes micro SD cards and gutted the slot from their S series too…
I had the 8 GB Nexus 4 and it was annoying to have to clear cache from apps ever so often.
Yeah, so no Pixel 8a? What the hell will I buy when the last half-tolerable Pixel (6a) gets no updates anymore?
I’ve had Pixels pretty much the whole time since the Pixel 2, I’ve dailied every generation except the OG and the 6a, coincidentally. I’m on the 7 now and really like it after thinking the 6 was hot trash. Out of curiosity, why is the 7 “intolerable”? What makes the 6a better?
6a has a plastic back and is smaller. I want a phone not a tablet and it shouldnt crack.
No youre not. Calyx is a joke, sorry. DivestOS may be okay but its still very different from GrapheneOS.
And no tiny custom Android can fix the issue that hardware manifacturers will not supply a single byte of firmware updates after their contract is done.
True discontinued firmware updates…, but look at the actual threat model. Why is calyx a joke?
Fuck Google and their phones, I got fucked by the 5a screen problem just after the warranty expired.
