Google Pixel XL gets the iFixit teardown treatment and finds many modular parts
Google’s brand-new Pixel XL smartphone could have just introduced, however the ever busy people at iFixit have already done its standard teardown of the device. That procedure revealed that the phone includes a great deal of modular parts that, theoretically, can make it much easier to repair.
iFixit found that components such as the 8 megapixel front dealing with video camera, the microphone, the USB-C port and more can easily be gotten rid of from the motherboard. That implies the parts ought to additionally be very easy, and cheap, to change if something goes incorrect. The team additionally keeps in mind that the phone’s battery has its own elimination tab, which once again must make it very easy to replace if it stops working.
The repairabilty rating that iFixit provided the Pixel XL was simply a 6 out of 10. That’s because that while a number of its components could be replaced promptly, the phone itself has just what the team calls a “thin and badly supported display screen setting up”. Clearly that needs to be opened up initially, and also otherwise done correctly, the iFixit team really feels that it might experience some damage.
One even more intriguing point regarding the Pixel XL is that while Google has actually acquired HTC to assemble the phone, there’s no actual proof of any HTC input in its design. The only HTC component in the Pixel XL is its battery, which is 13.28 Wh.
If you are fortunate sufficient to own the Pixel XL, exactly what are your preliminary impacts and also do you believe it’s a well put together phone?
