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by christianqchung 85 days ago
If you're not a phone power user, you can get by on old low end stuff. When my pixel 4a died of a bad screen crack a couple years ago, I replaced it with a random used 4a on ebay for $80. Two years later and it's still completely fine for all my purposes (texting, phone calls, chrome browsing, tolerable camera, etc.), although I still haven't accepted google's deal for a free battery swap yet from sheer laziness. I've learned that I can accept a 90 minute screen-on phone battery, though it's an odd adjustment to make. Again, not a power user.
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The free battery deal ended in January, but you're likely better off as mine ended up getting a damaged screen while being transported for mail in (because all local stores stopped doing the program), and they wanted to charge me an extortionate price to fix the screen. Support were useless