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I don't think this is newsworthy at this point. My Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 both are unreliable when trying to call 911, calling with an over the top app or dialing the PSAP's number directly are the only workarounds.

Google doesn't give a fuck about this issue. I have filed repeated support cases over the past year with Google about this when using T-Mobile or Verizon.



Google already didn't give a fuck about 911 problems (or 112 in my case) on the Pixel 4a, those have been unfixed since release.

Google doesn't seem to care that dead people don't make for good customers.


And FTC doesn't give a fuck about choice for consumers.


I would say a life or death years old bug still present in the newest model (on which I'm writing this) is newsworthy.

Although I'm not sure how there's no legal repercussion here?


I have a Pixel 7, and I am curious how do you test the reliability of calling 911? I assume you don't actually call 911 and say "just testing!"


Pixel 6 is the last Google phone I bought, after owning every single Pixel up until that point.

A company who fucks up this badly is not worth my money.


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That makes little sense. "It's the users who are wrong" ideology applies when you tell the customers they are holding the iPhone 4 wrong. Or when you ask them whether they don't have phones when you reveal the next Diablo as mobile-only.

No company would argue that users are wrong and that they are not supposed to dial emergency services.


How so?


Club of Rome often lamented human overpopulation, so the user you’ve been replying to will undoubtedly share some far-fetched conspiracy theory that won’t make a lick of sense.


I should have prefaced my post with "a modest proposal"




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