First-Gen Google Pixel Faulty Mics Draw Class Action Lawsuit in the US

With hardware issues continuing to plague major electronics vendors, consumers are refusing to take things lying down, and are fighting back with lawsuits against the biggest names in the tech and consumer electronics industries, including Google.

The company is facing a grade activeness lawsuit over the much-publicized problems with the microphones on the original Google Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones that were launched back in 2016. According to the plaintiffs, the tech giant sold the defective phones with full noesis almost their hardware issues that prevented users from being able to hear the vocalism at the other end of a phone call.

For the uninitiated, several complaints posted on the official support forums for the Google Pixel and Pixel Twoscore claimed that the devices suffered from serious microphone-related issues that either blocked or inhibited audio output while calling.

Terminal March, Google officially confirmed that the problems are the outcome of a "hairline crack in the solder of the hardware audio codec". The company besides said that some of the microphones themselves were as well found to be faulty. While Google officially advised users affected by the result to become free replacements for their faulty smartphones, the lawsuit now claims that even those replaced devices turned out to be faulty.

Information technology'south worth noting hither that this isn't the beginning time Google is facing a lawsuit for alleged issues with its Pixel smartphones. The tech giant is already contesting a class action lawsuit from disgruntled Pixel 2 Xl users who've taken the visitor to court for the faulty display panels on the device.

Interestingly, New York-based Girard Gibbs LLP is the law firm that's behind not merely the ii lawsuits against Google, but also against LG. LG got hitting with a lawsuit for a recurring kick-loop effect that affected many of its flagships, including the G4, G5, V10, V20 and the Nexus 5. The lawsuit went into arbitration earlier the South Korean company settled it recently.

As electronic gadgets are becoming increasingly more complex, hardware faults and software bugs are steadily condign more than common. Some of the recent cases that have gotten a lot of media attention include the infamous Galaxy Notation vii explosions, the Apple iPhone 7's 'No Service' issue, Microsoft'southward 'FlickerGate' controversy, and of course, the same boot-loop bug in recent LG smartphones.