Google is offering $300 trade-in on my Pixel 7a, which would bring the price of the Pixel 9 down to $499. which is the same price as the Pixel 8A. I do hope that Google keeps selling a phone at the $500 price target.
#Surprised that Android 15 was not released during today's Pixel event, in fact
the Pixel 9 series ships with Android 14 installed, which is a really odd decision; normally the new phones ship with the new version of Android. All reports indicate beta testing has gone well with Android 15, so there has been good reason to expect it ready by now, but with it not ready I wonder why then they moved up the Pixel event? Might this be a precursor to Google dropping the A series as expected? Moving up the Pixel event to earlier in the year would compensate for not announcing a new phone during Google IO.
#Long elections are all about money, pure and simple. Hopefully one of the lessons to be learned from this upcoming U.S. Presidential election is that they don't have to be so long. We really need election reform in the U.S. that is intended to make them more efficient, I personally advocate capped public spending. We don't need billions spent on commercials. I also would like Congress to pass a law that effectively overturns the SCOTUS Citizens United case by declaring spending money is not free speech.
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