TL;DR
- The Google Retailer is engaged on an upcoming “Your Gadgets” view for managing {hardware}.
- The web page will summarize buy particulars, together with guarantee info.
- Whereas Google will attempt to routinely observe previous purchases, you’ll be able to at all times manually add extra units.
Android customers might all be working Google’s working system, however solely a subset of us select to take action with Google’s personal {hardware}. Whether or not we’re speaking about Pixel telephones, a Google TV Streamer, or Nest Audio audio system, there are quite a lot of good causes to go together with Google units, together with early entry to the newest new options and powerful software program replace help. And within the close to future, it appears to be like like Google may very well be giving these of us who’ve invested in its product ecosystem a brand new approach to hold observe of all our gear.
The Google Retailer seems to be getting ready a brand new “Your Gadgets” part, as revealed by the publication of an early help web page (through Android Police). Whereas the precise Your Gadgets web page Google hyperlinks to will not be but stay, the corporate provides us a preview of what to anticipate from its description:
On Your Gadgets, you’ll have the ability to discover particulars about your Made by Google merchandise, together with mannequin info, buy and guarantee particulars, and your IMEI or serial quantity. You too can go to Your Gadgets to handle your associated subscriptions, begin repairs, discover device-specific assist, and speak to help.
It appears to be like like Google will try and routinely populate that listing along with your previous purchases and units it is aware of are linked to your account. For merchandise Google fails to hyperlink up on this method, Your Gadgets will provide a device for manually including new units by getting into their IMEI or serial quantity. The corporate provides a heads-up that you simply’ll seemingly have to leap by that additional hoop with equipment like Pixel Buds that you simply’ve bought exterior the Google Retailer.
For those who’re just a few type of Google glutton and have a lot {hardware} that you may’t hold observe of all of it even with this new device — nicely, fear not, as a result of Your Gadgets will even allow you to pare that listing down, eradicating {hardware} that you simply not use.
It nonetheless stays to be seen precisely what sort of utility we’re going to get out of this web page, however the thought sounds interesting sufficient: all our Made by Google stuff, and all the data we have to learn about it, multi function spot. Hopefully Google flips the swap on this one quickly so we even have an opportunity to attempt it out.
