The company typically launches a promotion on the September 27th to mark its birthday as a company. The difference this year is that its latest flagship devices have landed earlier than normal. That means the Pixel 9 range has been included in the sale with enhanced trade-in prices that match its pre-order deals last month, topping out at $720.

With hundred dollars in Google Store credit and no need for yet another set of earbuds I'll never wear, I went in a different direction.

Google is serious about hardware. Or so the company has claimed every year in the near-decade it’s been releasing new Pixel devices, products meant to showcase the latest and best that its Android software has to offer.