Google Pixel 9a 128GB (2025)

Very disappointed. I had never had any more than 2 bars of service with Telstra. Constant drop outs and non responsive screen touch. So I changed providers now Optus. 5 bars now but non responsive screen. When I tried rebooting the phone it went into a awaiting command position. Would not do anything . Dead phone. After leaving unattended for an hour it turned back on. This 9a is the worst phone I have ever owned.

As a cyclist using a Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 headset to listen to radio, podcasts or music on a 1.5 hour commute, outbound and return, 14 out of 15 work days, with my phone protected in the rear pocket of my vest, there is NOTHING more annoying than google's system UI "Volume lowered to a safer level" intervention. The "lowered volume" is completely inaudible and headset controls cannot be used to bring it back up. I thus need to stop, often from a reasonable speed (above 30kph), safely, (it's particulalry dangerous coming off a path onto grass) then reach behind my back to get the phone, unwrap it, turn up the brightness, hope the notificaton is still showing then snooze this UTTERLY RIDICULOUS function for 2 hours. Google has still not shipped its "Hearing Wellness menu" to enable control of this ludicrous and, for me, danger creating feature that is very likely to become a source of future litigation due to personal injury. My advice, don't touch Pixel phones with a bargepole, DON'T EVEN BEGIN TO THINK ABOUT BUYING ONE.