Google Pixel needs more cases and watch bands this year

Instruments are a truly great half of any tech purchase, and it’s an location the attach Google Pixel has been lacking. I truly hope to search a push from Google’s third-birthday celebration partners this year for more Pixel cell phone cases and Pixel Watch bands.

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Smartphone cases are handsome extensively aged among shoppers, nonetheless picks on Google Pixel possess in any admire times been moderately restricted. It’s not a drawl that gorgeous Google has, as if you’re not the usage of an iPhone or Samsung Galaxy tool, there are doubtlessly a host of equipment that gorgeous aren’t on hand to your tool.

Within the early years of Pixel, this turned into an expected anguish, and Google fortunately had gorgeous enough first-birthday celebration cases to the attach that turned into below no instances undoubtedly a drawl. But because the “Made for Google” program grew, Google’s have faith cases immediate began to fall off, with the previous three generations of legitimate Pixel cases being handsome bad, main to third-birthday celebration choices being more handsome. In a ballotwe ran this week, 9to5Google readers overwhelmingly acknowledged they aged third-birthday celebration cases, mostly from the Made for Google program.

But the anguish there lies in that, whereas there are moderately a bit case choices, Google Pixel phones basically lack the “handiest” these brands need to provide. As an instance, Bellroy has been a Made for Google partner for years, nonetheless you’ll top probably rating the brand offering leather-primarily based fully mostly cases for Pixel and not the pockets cases it offers for iPhone. Otterbox top probably offers a handful of its Defender and Symmetry cases for Pixel 8 Pro, whereas there are a lot more choices for Galaxy S24 Ultra and iPhone 15 Pro. Even Spigen, a community favorite, has cases fancy Optik Armor and Cryo Armor (the particular person that survived falling out of a plane) that aren’t on hand to Pixel house owners.

Google has partnerships with all of these brands, and I gorgeous desire the corporate would push more tough for deeper accent give a enhance to.

The greater anguish, I’d argue, is with watch bands on the Pixel Watch series.

There, first-birthday celebration bands are when it comes to the most suitable choice. There are cheap third-birthday celebration bands on Amazon (which basically aren’t a big expertise) and there possess been decent third-birthday celebration choices on the market in the previous, alternatively it’s a very barren landscape.

Google has a moderately healthy assortment of watch bands for its smartwatch. There are sporty silicone/fluoroelastomer bands, classy leather-primarily based fully mostly and metallic bands, and even some fabric choices too. But if you occur to step exterior of Google’s (basically costly) choices, there’s not a complete bunch in the market.

A survey thru Amazon, as an instance, finds moderately a bit expansive-cheap bands which possess plastic connectors and fabric or silicone designs. There are entirely just a few, if any, “top class” third-birthday celebration bands in the market.

As soon as more, Google has the partnerships to repair this.

So many accent brands possess Apple Watch bands, nonetheless none of them possess Pixel Watch bands! It might perchance well possibly probably perchance price Google to position out some incentive for these to be made, nonetheless if the corporate needs the Pixel Watch to prevail, it needs to possess definite potentialities possess this added preference. The top probably fall of additional watch bands we’ve viewed to this point (alongside Pixel Watch 2’s start) merely isn’t enough.

Additionally, this is at risk of be expansive vital this year for Google to undoubtedly cement how bands will work with the elevated Pixel Watch 3. I’m in my thought not expansive hopeful that existing bands will match a elevated casing, nonetheless I’d adore to be proved sinful. Google can’t hand over on its connection come, nonetheless I’d be concerned if nothing modified.

What possess you squawk? Are there enough cases and watch bands for Google Pixel? What’s one form or brand you’d fancy to search advance this year? Let’s focus on!

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