How important is your smartphone’s warranty to you?

Spain now joins countries that mandate at least three years of warranty on products including smartphones. What do you think about it?

By  Tushar Mehta May 2, 2021

The Spanish government recently mandated that products will have to be sold in the country with three years of warranty. This ruling extends the duration of the warranty on most products — including electronics — from the existing period of two years. The regulation also applies to smartphones and should enforce a higher manufacturing quality, putting markets like the US at a disadvantage where you get only one year of warranty on most products. A longer warranty for your smartphone certainly has its advantages, but is that something you care about?

Google to Add a New Color Mode to the Pixel 2 XL, Doubles Warranty for Pixel 2/2 XL Owners

Google will bring a new saturated colour mode to the Pixel 2 XL via a software update. Also, Google has doubled warranty for all Pixel 2/2 XL owners.

By  Idrees Patel Oct 27, 2017

Last year, the first-generation Google Pixel and the Pixel XL used AMOLED displays from Samsung. At that time, Google targeted a NTSC colour gamut and Android had no colour management, so all colours looked saturated by default. although the company did provide a sRGB mode in the Developer Options. With this year's second-generation Pixel 2 phones, Google has chosen different OLED panels for the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. While the Pixel 2 uses a Full HD Samsung AMOLED display which is very similar to that of the 2016 Pixel, the Pixel 2 XL uses LG's new WQHD+ (2880x1440) 18:9 aspect ratio P-OLED display.