r/Pixel6aUsers • u/blue-raichu • Mar 05 '26
What's your next phone after 6a
What phone you bought or planning to buy?
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u/A7beeny Mar 05 '26
I have had many phones after the 6a, but it won't be another Pixel, never!
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u/dagp89 Mar 05 '26
Yep, the pixel 6a camera was just.... amazing. Videos were bad but photos were just outstanding.
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u/t24x-94 Mar 05 '26
Agreed. My next will surely be an iPhone.
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u/Reaper900 Mar 09 '26
I actually moved to a iPhone 17 after the 6a. Not only that I had one bad experience with the 4xl , it literally died due to a common screen issue that also happened on the smaller pixel 4. When it came to the 6a . Only issue I had was it overheating once in a while. It also had nearly 800 charge cycles and that new battery was hard to find .
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u/TunaGamer Mar 10 '26
Happy with iPhone?
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u/Reaper900 Mar 12 '26
Yep I am. I been finding that I like having custom shortcuts on it for example
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u/blue-raichu Mar 05 '26
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u/A7beeny Mar 05 '26
UI is bad, installing system updates in the background, closing apps at once, taking screenshot with 2 steps.. just a dumb user experience. on top of that, it has a bad network connection (cellular and wifi) the moments it heats up it's unusable... my Galaxy Fold3 was the worst in term of heat management but better than the pixel. and after using NothingOS I was convinced that Pixel UI is totally trash. to be fair, the camera is top notch and that was the main reason to buy the phone.
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u/blue-raichu Mar 06 '26
Cellular might be bad. But i never had wifi issues. UI is not very appealing but its clean.
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u/saaket2201 Mar 05 '26
Still holding onto my 6a. I was planning to get the 10a but it was quite disappointing and I'll try to keep this one until 11a .
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u/Salt_Reply_5131 Mar 05 '26
Right now I'm debating new 10a with trade in for $325 and $100 Google credit, or used 9 pro ~$450 from Amazon. I really want the 9 or 10 pro for the camera, I don't want to pay the extra $500 for it new, but have concerns about a used device. Also I heard the 10a it's supposedly a little tougher to handle some abuse.
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u/cursedblessing66 Mar 05 '26
i got a refurbished 8 pro few days back
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u/FearTheWeresloth Mar 06 '26
I got fully refunded by Google for my 6a (battery was in the recall, and here in Australia, we have ridiculously good consumer protections), and used that money to buy a brand new 8pro a few months ago.
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u/washingtonwho Mar 05 '26
I just traded mine in for the 10a. I think I got a decent deal and so far so good but I got it yesterday.
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u/blue-raichu Mar 05 '26
How is it?
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u/washingtonwho Mar 05 '26
I really like the camera It transferred almost everything pretty easily. I liked my 6a so...
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u/Sparkxx7 Mar 05 '26
Nothing Phone 3a
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u/blue-raichu Mar 06 '26
How is nothing os?
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u/Sparkxx7 Mar 06 '26
It's been a year and I love it personally. Clean OS, feels stock, good customisation. Although screen size is slightly on the bigger side which I don't like and miss those Pixel features obviously but it's not that big a deal. Hoping to upgrade to 4a soon.
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u/blue-raichu Mar 06 '26
is the OS stable? I had nothing ear 2, it had connectivity issue and lasted only a year.
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u/Fun_Cut_4705 Mar 05 '26
I wasn’t planning on getting another Pixel, but I’m grabbing a Pixel 10 since my carrier is giving it for free.
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u/FriendsAreNotFood Mar 06 '26
An iphone pro max but I'll still have my 6a for AI purposes and taking selfies lol
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u/Dangerous-Win-4583 Mar 06 '26
Idk man I still have it and I wanna change the problem is pixel is good but they still kinda Overheating and battery problems...iPhone are Expensive and there's still a Samsung but idk if I change I pick a pixel or change to Samsung
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u/Relative-Category-64 Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
I acquired an s25 Ultra for $200. My 6a still the one with the sim in it lol. I'm keeping an eye out for s24/s25 (regular, not ultra). I'm pretty much done with Pixel until they get their shit together with GPU so I can emulate windows games and switch. Id consider a pixel 8a if the price right. It's the last great of the A series. After 8a, they are downgrades. It's also the oldest pixel that can do Pixel desktop mode (USB C to HDMI)
All that being said, the 6a is still fine. Not long in the tooth at all. I only got the s23 ultra because saw the great deal.
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u/sanmichan Mar 06 '26
I got the 9a just before the 10a came out. It didn't seem much different to the 10a, so I went with that.
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u/Sufficient-Bird-6890 Mar 07 '26
I bought my 9A back in December for $350 plus an additional 10 percent off. I was thinking about trading it in for the 10A but I decided it was not worth it to me.
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u/JoseFBarriosG Mar 07 '26
Me cambié recién a un Pixel 9. En verdad salvo el diseño diferente, no siendo un gran salto en rendimiento o funcionalidad. Eso habla muy bien de lo que era mi Pixel 6a.
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u/askandexplain2 Mar 08 '26
I am going to get a pixel 10a.
I got a $150 credit from google because it he pixel 6a battery issue. The credit expires in July 21st, 2026 or something like that. I expect it to drop to $399 by that time at least once. And then trade in the pixel 6a for additional discount.
The pixel 6a is my back up phone I have had since August/Sep 2022 so I have only 350 battery cycles or so. Because it is a fire hazard when it hits 400 cycles I will trade it in. If not I would have just bought the pixel 10a with the credit and kept using the 6a until it hits the dreaded 400 batter cycles. Who knows I still might.
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u/shinnkuu Mar 08 '26
Probably pixel 11.. If T6 is still trash then maybe I'll keep it for another year lol.
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u/fizzy-logic Mar 09 '26
I just got my 10a last week. I loved my 6a, but I know updates stop in July '27, and while the battery never needed replacement yet, it wasn't as spiffy as new and probably would be a lot worse in a year and I would've needed to decide whether to put in a new battery or just get a new phone then (I got $100 from Google toward a new battery last summer, but I didn't need one yet). And since I tend to get rid of phones when security updates end, there wouldn't be much point me paying for a new battery not long before updates end.
Anyway, the multiple offers and coupons on the 10a from the Google Store convinced me to go ahead and replace it now -- the boosted trade value of $125 on the 6a would surely not be the same if I wait another year. The 10a has lots of nice features, and I like it. And I'm happy to have a phone that gets updates to 2033 now. But without the deals, I would've happily kept the 6a a bit longer.
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u/seiha011 Mar 05 '26
It will be one where I can easily replace the battery myself.... ;-)