Google has long treated the Indian market like a second-class citizen, and to be fair, it had its reasons. It wasn’t selling nearly as many phones as Samsung, Apple, or even OnePlus. That’s the reason only the A-series Pixels made it to India for years. But things have been changing slowly but surely. Google recently announced an assembly line in India, and around mid-2025, it finally launched its own online Google Store here, complete with first-party accessories and trade-in options.
Naturally, I headed straight there to pre-book a Pixel 10, trading in my old Pixel 6a that I had lying around. Everything went smoothly at first — the phone shipped on time, and Google gave me ample time to move my data before the old Pixel was scheduled for pickup.