I’ve had a Pixel 4a for ~3 years at this point. I had to replace it some time last year because I had lost my original in a lake. T-Mobile gave me whichever lower-end Pixel there was at the time and I immediately gave it back because of the offputting amount of warmth it produced doing very little. When the time does come to properly upgrade, how would I go about searching for phones that run cool? I’ve been thinking about my next choice to be a jump-ship from the Pixel series given my, uh, experience (there was a bit more that I didn’t like about it)
I upgraded from the 4a to the 6a - it’s the 5G chipset/connection generating all that heat even when idle. Within the first week I disabled 5G to run on 4G and the heat level is just fine - I live in a metro area with good towers (and use T-Mobile home internet with great speeds) so it’s not a signal strength problem, my signal stats are great. It’s simply using 5G on the phone generating an uncomfortable amount of heat. (Settings -> Network - > SIMS / T-Mobile -> Preferred Type -> 4G) $0.02 ad-hoc experience