Fucking called it

Only some Pixel 4a phones are affected, apparently.

You know… the stuff they’re doing to some Pixel 4as - reducing charging speed, limiting charge level, etc - those are the same things EV manufacturers do when they’ve got known faulty batteries catching fire and are trying to work around the issue with software.

Doing it to certain devices which you can look up by IMEI, that sounds a lot like something you’d do if you had a certain batch of batteries catching fire and knew which devices had those batteries.

More than a year after end of life, Google suddenly decides “stability of battery performance” is such a big issue that they’re going to pay compensation to people? That isn’t suspicious at all.

Maybe they should’ve actually said what was wrong instead of being a terrible company.

rabble

Honestly Google should just push out a easy upgrade path to those affected. Make it easy for people to get upgraded to the latest Pixel.

The PR fall out from this could be very bad and they should learn from Samsung.

My 4a had the charging port almost start a fire after owning it for less than 2 years.

I got a free battery replacement and have not had any issues afterwards. Just stating for a data point.