Pixels, history repeats itself. What is happening at home can be summed up as follows Google regarding support for the right to repair: last summer the Mountain View company intervened by publishing the Pixel 6a repair manual, with a small limitation, however. The 188-page documentation was intended for French users only. And now it seems that the case is repeating itself.
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| Google Pixel 6a 71.8 x 152.2 x 8.9 mm 6.1 inches – 2400x1080px |
Google Pixel 7 73.2 x 155.6 x 8.7 mm 6.3 inches – 2400x1080px |
Google Pixel 7 Pro 76.6 x 162.9 x 8.9 mm 6.7 inches – 3120x1440px |
This time the protagonists are Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, or the current top ranges that Google officially announced last fall. And here too the support page for the repair manual dedicated to the two smartphones refers to a content exclusively in French Furthermore accessible only if you connect from France. The result for all other users – us included – is as follows:
The residents in France instead, they access the correct page:
You can use the Pixel repair manual to try and fix the problems you’re having with your phone and get it fixed.
In the text Google expressly specifies that “the Pixel repair manual is available in French for French users“, followed by the advice of “get authentic replacement parts from iFixit“. The collaboration with iFixit has been in place for some time now, although initially it was limited to the United States.
173 pages one, 197 the other: the documents for self-repairing a Series 7 Pixel are there, as are the original components. It remains only to understand why i privileged are our cousins ​​from beyond the Alps and not the rest of Europe too. After all, even Apple had behaved in the same way a couple of years ago with iPhone and MacBook: France imposes a repairability index that lets users know if a particular device is more or less easily repairable. The law came into force in 2022 and evidently forced brands to speed up the release of manuals starting from that very country.
Unlike the service, the manuals for Pixel 7, 7 Pro and 6a are freely accessible at the following links:
- Pixels 7
- Pixel 7 Pro
- Pixel 6a
- Google Pixel 7 is available online from eBay at 565 euros. The value for money is optimal but there are 6 better models.
- Google Pixel 7 Pro is available online from Phoneshock at 716 euros or from eBay to 758 euros.
(updated January 30, 2023, 10:45 am)
