This month is the final month of guaranteed major and security updates, and we already know Android 14 won’t land in the Pixel 4a (though it will in the Pixel 4a 5G as it has guaranteed updates until November).
So for those of you who own that phone, what do you plan to do with it? Are you going to keep using it for a couple more years without the updates? Install a custom ROM (which one?)? Or are you maybe planning to get a new phone (a Pixel?)?
If you still own an older Pixel phone, how are you keeping it alive?
I’m not fussed about no updates going forward. I still like the phone.
The battery isn’t lasting as long as it used to, obviously, but it should last for another year at least.
In that case I’d probably replace the battery, iFixit has a $50 kit for that.
I don’t trust myself not to make a balls-up of doing that and then needing to buy a new phone anyway. 😂
I’ve been thinking about doing that, but this phone won’t last that much longer so might as well just save the $50 for a new phone and live with a more or less shitty one until then.