The front of the Pixel Fold display. [credit:
iFixit ]
We have more Pixel parts. The Pixel Fold, Google’s biggest and most expensive phone, now has a whole parts selection up at iFixit.
The big-ticket item is a repair kit for the 7.6-inch inner display. If you were to somehow break the flexible OLED panel (who would ever do that?), the part will cost you a whopping $900. That’s a lot for the display, but you’re not actually buying just the top display. Even the “part only” option for $900 is the entire top half of the Pixel Fold. We’re talking the display, the bezels around it, the entire metal frame and sides of the phone, the all-important hinge, side buttons, fingerprint sensor, and a whole bunch of wires. You wouldn’t buy this and connect it to your original phone; you would part out your original phone and move a few pieces over into this, like the motherboard, batteries, cameras, and back plate.
There’s also a flexible display “Fix Kit” for just $10 more that includes a bevy of iFixit tools, like screwdrivers, a few soft-pry tools, a heat pad, a suction cup, 14 different custom-cut adhesive strips, the heat-dissipating graphite sheet, and thermal paste; and for some reason there are even two brand-new batteries.
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