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Frank Slootweg wrote:

> Stan Brown wrote:
>>> my Google Pixel 8a, purchased at the end of November. the box
>> contained a USB-C cable, and a USB-A (female) to USB-C (male) dongle.
>> I have no use for the dongle.
> 
>    The dongle is probably for being able to connect two phones together
> (by means of the correct USB-something to USB-A cable) to transfer all
> one's stuff from one's 'old' phone to one's 'new' phone.
I think the most recent phone I bought which used a cable to do the data 
migration was Pixel3, can't remember what the pixel5a did, NFC bonk perhaps?

The pixel8a just needed a QR code scanning from one phone to the other 
and leave them to it ...