Broken wearables don’t need to be cast off as e-waste. Repairability is here, although it’s not yet as widespread as it should be.
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All Your Wearables Have One Glaring Weakness. What Can We Do About It?
0:00 Introduction
0:37 Why Right to Repair Matters
1:27 Removing the Case Back
1:58 Removing the Haptic Engine
2:11 Removing the Battery
2:27 Removing the Sticker and Cables
2:46 Removing the O-Ring
2:58 Reassembling the Pixel Watch
3:22 Repair Time and Conclusion
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@leach778
June 17, 2026 at 8:13 am
Yea but can you swop out a crap battery for one that will last longer than one day?.
@Gravage
June 17, 2026 at 8:54 am
The battery in the last two generation of Pixel watches lasts much longer than one day. I get around 2+ days easily on them. It’s the best smartwatch battery I have ever had, short of something like the Pebble or a Garmin. And they charge really fast.
@leach778
June 17, 2026 at 10:13 am
@GravageI’ve got the oneplus3 and it’s running wear os and my battery lasts 5/6 days, I think that is considerably better than the pixel watch
@Gravage
June 17, 2026 at 12:18 pm
@leach778 Except it’s not because it’s OnePlus.
@youtube_ks_p
June 17, 2026 at 8:27 am
Beautiful nails 💙
@kosteaproduction
June 17, 2026 at 9:31 am
Calm down
@Morgo019
June 17, 2026 at 6:15 pm
@kosteaproduction you need to calm down, whats wrong with a harmless comment? lol
@kosteaproduction
June 17, 2026 at 7:53 pm
@Morgo019don’t tell me what to do
@Morgo019
June 17, 2026 at 8:12 pm
@kosteaproduction you shouldnt tell others what to do either, works both ways
@ginyilee6538
June 17, 2026 at 9:02 am
It seem like you make more waste in this one time use repair gig
@CNET
June 17, 2026 at 10:19 am
Read more about repairing the Pixel Watch on CNET.com: All Your Wearables Have One Glaring Weakness. What Can We Do About It?
@sunflash9
June 17, 2026 at 1:32 pm
Impressive that’s is even possible, now apple and samsung have no excuse for their watches.
@karmagod8477
June 17, 2026 at 6:09 pm
companies only care about selling more, they don’t care about the environment or e-waste as long as they make more money. & consumers enabled them.
@guardsheep
June 17, 2026 at 11:34 pm
Omg. This whole video sounds like an Google-AD. I expect from journalists a bit more. Google didn’t do this because of “good will”, rather than following right to repair laws, especially EU’s laws.
@Antenox
June 17, 2026 at 11:45 pm
As far as I know, the EU laws only require them to make repair services available to customers. If that’s true, then making these easily user repairable really is an admirable step that’s worth praise.
@cadenchurchill4296
June 18, 2026 at 6:58 pm
I think it really says a lot that Google is able to make a Pixel Watch with the same looks so much more repairable. There really is no excuse for other manufacturers like Apple not to make their devices easy to repair. I would love to see this on an Apple Watch Series 12, although I doubt Apple would do this unless they were legally forced to.