The Pixel Watch 3 is ‘replacement only’ if you break it

If you hap to ace the surface connected your brand-new Pixel Watch 3, Google won’t repair it; the caller smartwatch is “replacement only,” a Google typical told Android Authority. That means this is the 3rd smartwatch successful a enactment wherever Google won’t connection repairs.

That’s a shame, particularly erstwhile you see however Pixel Watch screens person held up successful our reviews of the last two. Replacements are $49 if you hap to person bought Preferred Care, Google’s instrumentality security programme — but that programme costs $89 for 2 years of sum (or $4 per period for 60 months).

Google typical Erin Cizek confirmed to The Verge via email that those with damaged Pixel Watch 3s tin “contact the Google Pixel Watch Customer Support Team to cheque your replacement options.”

If you didn’t bargain the Preferred Care program — which you person to bash erstwhile you bargain the Pixel Watch 3 oregon wrong 30 days of your acquisition — past your options are sparse. Google offers a imaginable discounted mail-in replacement, oregon you tin effort your luck astatine repairing it.