Google has introduced on its Pixel Assist Group portal that it’s extending the Pixel 8’s restore program for telephones displaying vertical traces and exhibiting flickering. This coverage replace permits Pixel 8 house owners to get this downside mounted underneath guarantee, for as much as three years after buy, if their telephone “Displays a vertical line operating from the underside of the show to the the highest or a show flicker.”
Google isn’t promising that each telephone with the difficulty will qualify, although — Google or a licensed restore associate might want to decide that it qualifies for the extension primarily based on the serial variety of your telephone.
Google’s commonplace {hardware} guarantee nonetheless solely lasts one yr with out such an extension, though the corporate now guarantees seven years of software program OS and safety updates on all Pixel 8 telephones, together with the cheaper Pixel 8A.