Google's new Pixel phone insurance includes unlimited claims, but is it legit? I did the math

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• Google has a caller instrumentality extortion programme called Pixel Care+.
• The programme is designed to support newer flagship devices.
• Customers tin get escaped surface and artillery replacements

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Pixel and Fitbit owners are astir to person a batch much bid of mind, arsenic Google has launched a caller extortion programme for Pixel and Fitbit devices -- including phones, tablets, and wearables. 

In an announcement this week, the institution elaborate the caller Pixel Care+ program, which is aimed astatine providing "a higher level of coverage, work and bid of mind" for flagship devices.

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The programme is lone unfastened to newer devices -- for the Pixel 8 lineup and newer phones, the Pixel Watch 2 and newer watches, and the Pixel Tablet. For Fitbit devices, you tin enroll a Fitbit Ace LTE, Fitbit Sense 2, Fitbit Versa 4, Fitbit Charge 6, and Fitbit Inspire 3.

The terms is simply a small much than Google's existent extortion plan, but it brings it successful enactment with what Apple Care+  offers. In immoderate cases, similar the deductible cost, it adjacent surpasses it. And remember, Apple Care+ doesn't connection the multi-year subscriptions to prevention wealth arsenic it erstwhile did.

What does Pixel Care+ include?

New benefits include: 

• Unlimited claims for accidental damage, extended warranty claims, oregon mechanical damage
• Free screen and artillery repairs
• Free aft warranty malfunction claims
• Genuine Google parts and replacements
• Priority enactment from Pixel Experts
• Self-service claims done the Google Store website
• Optional added nonaccomplishment and theft coverage

Google adds that it's besides making the claims process easier by allowing you to record a assertion consecutive from the Google Store, wherever you tin take a clip and day for your appointment.

How overmuch does Pixel Care+ cost?

Pricing varies depending connected instrumentality (you tin find a implicit database here). As an example, sum for a Pixel 10 Pro Fold is $16 a period oregon $299 for 2 years (saving you $84). The Pixel 10 Pro and 10 Pro XL are $13 a period oregon $239 for 2 years, portion the basal Pixel 10 is $9 a period oregon $179 for 2 years. That's priced reasonably intimately with what Samsung and Apple complaint for their respective security programs.

Coverage for a Pixel Watch 4 is $5 a period oregon $99 for 2 years. Upgrading to nonaccomplishment and theft extortion (which isn't disposable successful New York) adds a fewer dollars a month, but determination is simply a deductible of $60 to $100 to get your instrumentality replaced. 

Pixel Care+ is disposable present for caller eligible devices successful the US, and you tin adhd it wrong 60 days of acquisition done the Google Store oregon the My Pixel app.

If you're an existing Google Preferred Care oregon Fi Device Protection customer, your subscription volition beryllium rolled implicit to the caller program.