Ifixit Says The Pixel Watch 4 Is The Most Repairable Smartwatch Around

When Google announced nan Pixel Watch 4, it made a constituent to mention that nan smartwatch was "designed pinch serviceability successful mind." Now that it's out, nan repair experts astatine iFixit person taken a look and tin corroborate Google's claims. The how-to master tract has called nan Pixel Watch 4 nan astir repairable smartwatch you tin bargain correct now. That’s notable, arsenic iFixit points out, because you’d astir apt expect a sustainability-oriented marque specified arsenic Fairphone aliases Framework to beryllium getting this benignant of nickname up of Google. (That said, nan Fairphone 6 did precocious person a cleanable 10/10 repairability review.) But iFixit said it was "truly impressed" pinch what owners tin do to hole Google’s latest wearable connected their own.

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The first point it highlights is nan beingness of visible screws that don’t interfere pinch nan watch’s IP68 h2o and particulate guidance rating. Both nan vibration centrifugal and artillery are besides easy to remove, nan second being glue-free and requiring you only to unscrew from its enclosure. As for nan display, that’s besides secured by screws unsocial (spotting a shape present yet?) and sealed utilizing a replaceable O-ring gasket that you tin easy purchase. iFixit notes that it’s harder for quadrate watches to usage nan aforesaid solution, truthful Google’s determination to make nan Pixel Watch 4 information boosts its repairability.

At nan extremity of its broad video, iFixit awards Google a provisional standing of 9/10 for repairability, calling it "the astir satisfying smartwatch teardown" it has performed to date. For transparency, nan tract points retired that it does person an ongoing business business pinch Google, but insists it’s wholly unrelated to nan teardown curen it gives nan Pixel Watch 4.

Its possibly astonishing level of repairability isn’t nan only point successful nan Pixel Watch 4’s favor. In Engadget’s 86/100 review of nan device, Cherlynn Low besides praised its accelerated charging speeds, fantabulous wellness and fittingness search credentials and charismatic display.