Nexus 6 Reparability

[anon(5506951)]

I don't know if this has been mentioned, and it's probably a silly concern seeing as I don't even have the device yet, but I've seen some people say on different sites that they've had or are having trouble finding a place that will repair their damaged Nexus 6. When I say this, I'm referring to third-party repairers, for those who don't wish to wait weeks to use their phone.

By contrast, you can readily have a Samsung device repaired at any store, and fairly quickly at that. Stores more readily have replacement parts for that phone, as they get ordered in bulk; I see potentially repairing a cracked Nexus 6 screen to not be so easy, because stores won't have parts on hand.

Thus, parts might be ordered individually, which would be an inconvenience to not only the store, but to the customer, who would be responsible, and have to pay through the nose to have the phone fixed. Am I wrong here? Reparability has been rated as easy, supposedly (on par with the iPhone), but there's that question of, a lot of people use iPhone, but not many use Nexus. That's not to say I'd intentionally set out to damage the phone, but things happen. Thoughts?

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[Rukbat]

You can have a Samsung S4 or Note 3 repaired almost anywhere. The S5 or Note 4? A little more difficult, but they've been out for a while. By March or April it will be just as easy to get a Nexus 6 repaired. Getting a phone that some carriers aren't even selling isn't easy. (When I went to get my 2 day old Note 3 replaced, it took about 2 weeks. When that one developed a problem a few months later, it was replaced while I was in the store.)

 

[anon(5506951)]

You can have a Samsung S4 or Note 3 repaired almost anywhere. The S5 or Note 4? A little more difficult, but they've been out for a while. By March or April it will be just as easy to get a Nexus 6 repaired. Getting a phone that some carriers aren't even selling isn't easy. (When I went to get my 2 day old Note 3 replaced, it took about 2 weeks. When that one developed a problem a few months later, it was replaced while I was in the store.)

That's true. I bring it up only because one day last week I went into a neighborhood third-party store and I made a point to look and see if they had an array of devices to sell. No such luck- Samsung everywhere. Incidentally, last summer I took my S3 in there after dropping it on concrete. The screen was not only cracked on top, and had a hairline fracture down the middle, but it had a couple holes that looked like the screen was punctured. The store repaired it the same day I took it in. We should be so lucky with the Nexus.

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