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Google won’t repair cracked Pixel Watch screens (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/android@lemmy.world
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[–] 144 points 3 years ago (7 children)

Can we stop picking on this startup? They're just hardware hobbyists, give them a break.

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  • [–] 70 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Outside of showing ads, Google is an everything hobbyist.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You joke, but Google does not take hardware as seriously as they should. I say this as an owner of a Pixel 7. I actually really like the hardware, but the simplicity and clean look of the software is why I actually love the phone. I have to baby the phone because I know Google doesn't actually care even if they swear up and down they do.

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    • [+] 42 points 3 years ago (23 children)
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  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I miss Pebble. ePaper Display, week long battery life, and I can see all my phones notifications and reply to texts on the watch itself.

    Made my old phone with bad battery life usable.

    Garmin is the only "smart watch"/fitness tracker that does this and does it well. Wish it wasn't as pricy for the week long battery devices.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago* (13 children)

    i personally don't find smart watches interesting or really that useful (to me). I tried out a samsung watch for a while and had fun making my own watch faces but that's about it. Charging it every few days was a pain. I ended up going back to my trusty Casio F-91W. Super thin, 8-10 year battery life, alarm and stopwatch built in. Not much more I need from a device on my wrist.

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    [–] 20 points 3 years ago

    Form over function. It is a wearable, give it a bezel to bump with instead of cuved glass.

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    [–] 19 points 3 years ago* (6 children)

    I mean, why would you pay to replace the screen? The cost of a screen repair on a smart watch is about $300 for most comparable devices.

    Guess how much the watch costs? About $300. It sucks, but it's literally not worth the parts and labor hours required to repair it. Buy a protection plan if you're worried about it, but otherwise, you just need to eat that cost. That's the risk you take with devices like this.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    You realize replacing the screen costs that much because google says its supposed to cost that much... i wonder why they would do that...

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No they don't. Google doesn't say it costs anything to repair, because they don't offer repairs. That's the whole point of this discussion in the first place, the fact that Google doesn't repair Pixel Watches.

    I'm making a comparison to services offered from Apple and iFixIt, however - both of which will charge about $300 for a smart watch repair.

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    [–] 14 points 3 years ago (47 children)

    Has a smartwatch other than the Apple Watch ever done well?

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  • [–] 47 points 3 years ago (24 children)

    Garmin does pretty well. Although you could argue they're more fitness and sports oriented, they do have "normal" smartwatches too like the Venu and Lily series, and also hybrid watches like the Vivomove. All Garmins have excellent battery life and there have been very few complaints about them. If anything, the most common complaint is that they've got too many watches to choose from, which can be confusing for someone new to the Garmin lineup.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (12 children)

    Garmin also has titanium watches with sapphire glass on their high end. I'm ridiculously clumsy with watches, so I got one thinking I'd stand a chance of not breaking it. Now the new problem is, the watch is way harder than anything else I accidentally smack it into, and can break stuff around it instead.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    I have the same "issue" on my galaxy watch 5 pro. I can see the dents on walls I accidentally hit, but the watch hasn't a single scratch.

    And being pedantic, it's not sapphire glass, it's sapphire crystal. Glass is a wholly different thing. Sapphire glass would be when Apple claims their products have sapphire in them, but in reality they just mix the tiniest amount of sapphire in the glass so they can technically call it sapphire glass, but it doesn't offer any extra resistance or hardness.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago*

    My girlfriend and I both got Garmin watches and we absolutely love them. I got the Forerunner 265 and she got the venue 2sq. I like that they support both android and Apple, and don't have subscriptions!

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    I have the Venu and the only thing I'm waiting for Garmin is YouTube Music support. I know most fully featured smart watches have 1 or 2 days but I get like multiple days even when I go for runs so often.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I've had a Samsung watch for a few years and I'm definitely not careful with it but it has easily put up to all of my abuse and the battery still lasts a couple days or more. Nothing I can really complain about.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Pebble watches were awesome! 1 week battery eink screens with app support. Too bad fitbit bought them and went nowhere. It shut down 5 years ago, but the hardware is still supported by third party alternatives. In fact I'm using it right now.

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