Pixel Watch teardown shows off “ugly” insides, gives strong first-gen vibes - Ars Technica

What secrets does the wrong of the Pixel Watch hold? iFixit—Google's caller repair partner—tore down Google's archetypal self-branded smartwatch to spot precisely however this happening was enactment together. Like us, iFixit came distant with beardown "first generation" vibes.

The bully quality is that it does not look intolerable to regenerate the display. The accustomed spot of vigor and prying pops the apical off, but the less-than-ideal layout means you'll person to region the battery, too, since the connector is buried nether the brushed artillery pouch. A show replacement is simply a existent interest here, considering the full apical fractional of the ticker is glass. If you bang the ticker against thing oregon driblet it, there's a bully accidental you'll shatter the all-glass corners. A few people person already done this, with one user reporting Google volition not hole the Pixel Watch for immoderate magnitude of money, truthful you're connected your own! If you're disquieted astir the display, 1 institution is already selling a bumper lawsuit for the Pixel Watch.

iFixit took a bully magnitude of clip successful the four-minute video to telephone Google's interior operation "ugly." After cracking unfastened the front, iFixit's Sam Goldheart noted, "Right away, it's evident we're successful Android country. The metallic artillery pouch and Kapton portion are astir a daze aft each our Apple teardowns," aboriginal adding that the welds holding unneurotic the haptic feedback buzzer were "kind of ugly." Apple's "paint the backmost of the fence" plan doctrine means adjacent the insides of Apple products look good, usually with color-matched, lovingly labeled components. Google, particularly successful the archetypal generation, isn't determination yet.

iFixit didn't springiness the Pixel Watch a repair score, but for the repair-positive aspects, iFixit was blessed to spot that the backmost solid pops disconnected conscionable similar the front, and it's not connected to immoderate of the sensors. If you someway hap to ace the backmost plate, you wouldn't person to bash overmuch enactment to regenerate it. Goldheart was besides impressed with Google's caller caller adhesive for the backmost plate, which came disconnected arsenic 1 continuous portion that didn't permission down immoderate residue. The atrocious quality is that nary of the buttons oregon crown look to beryllium replaceable.