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That's been Google phones even since the Nexus days. They review super well then three months after release there's some crazy-ass hardware problem no phone has ever experienced before. Screen discoloration, glass backs cracking while laying flat on a table, power buttons getting stuck, spontaneous camera glass cracking, etc.

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The flaws were much more excusable with the Nexus phones since they were dirt cheap, but the price of the Pixels has crept upwards and now they're more or less at parity with Apple and Samsungs flagship prices.

My issue is that they are bottom-barrel of repairability.

My Nexus phones were described as "designed to fail and impossible to fix" by a repair guy.

But that's not true anymore afaik: they get good repairability scores at ifixit and also have a deal with them to stock repair parts.

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