Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsLooks new, appears to work with Google Fi, good price.
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2020
I bought this from Abe's Electronics (note that this product has several sellers, which may or may not be the source of the varying reviews about "Verizon Locked, etc", so I thought it was important to call out).
I bought it as a hot backup for my previous Pixel 3, which worked well until my friend cursed me by saying "you should get case", and after having it since the Pixel 3 first came out, and dropping it a few times, immediately after he said that, it promptly fell out of my locker, dropped, and cracked around the camera. I got a case, but since then the power button would get techy (keep triggering, until I pulled the button insert off the case, and started squeezing harder), and pictures were sometimes fuzzy.
So I've been pretty happy with previous Pixel 3, but I little worried about the damage. As far as the one I got from Abe's via Amazon, the packaging (including accessories) was exactly the same as what I received when I ordered one from Google directly. The bootloader does come locked, but i dropped into the boot screen from the one got from Google, and it was also bootloader locked. It won't lock you to a particular carrier, you should be able to use this with Fi, T-Mobile, etc.
And while I haven't fully transitioned to Google Fi on the new phone (still using my old one as long as possible) - the service is available on the phone, and I walked through most of the setup process (copying from my old phone), and just didn't click through the final "activate" step. The SKU on the box, and the software indicates this is North American model.
It came clean, no indications of being repackaged, software was fresh & walked me through the same setup instructions as my first direct-from-Google purchase.
Was a little nervous about getting a phone off a 3rd party seller on Amazon, but so far, it's been great!
