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Samsung May Soon Launch Self Repair Assistant App for DIYers

Tim November 28, 2022 2

It looks like Samsung is really getting into the idea of self repair, with a trademark recently filed for an app called Self Repair Assistant, seemingly developed to help DIYers in their quest to fix up their own technological goodies, instead of needing the...

Samsung Collabs With iFixit, Launches Self Repair Program for Select Devices

Tim August 2, 2022 2

Like Google did earlier this year, Samsung is teaming up with the good people at iFixit and has launched an all-new self repair program targeting a select handful of Galaxy devices. To start, Samsung is only opening the program to the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S21...

iFixit Now Selling Genuine Pixel Phone Parts for You DIY’ers

Tim June 29, 2022 5

Earlier this year, Google announced that it would be making genuine Pixel phone parts available to iFixit for sale to do-it-yourselfers. That appears to have now happened, with iFixit currently selling many parts for phones ranging from the original Pixel and...

Google, iFixit Partnership Will Make Fixing Your Pixel Phone a Total Breeze

Tim April 8, 2022 7

Google announced a new partnership with our friends at iFixit this week, one that will have Pixel owners fixing their phones up with official Pixel parts and iFixit-branded toolkits. According to Google, customers will be able to find spare parts for "common...

Samsung Launches Self-Repair Program, Makes It Easy to Swap Your Own Busted Display

Tim March 31, 2022 8

Samsung has announced a new self-repair program, made in collaboration with our friends over at iFixit. The repair program is designed to help select Galaxy owners repair their own devices, instead of having to take them into a shop and and pay way too much...

Teardown Reveals Galaxy Note 20 Lineup Powered by… Star Wars?!

Tim August 24, 2020 3

iFixit provided its teardown of the Galaxy Note 20 lineup this week, and while looking at the guts of devices is always fun, there's a particular piece of hardware inside of the phones that we can't help but focus on. As noted in the company's teardown,...

iFixit Tears Down Galaxy S20 Ultra, Displays Guts for All to See

Tim March 4, 2020

iFixit is back with another teardown, this time for the Galaxy S20 Ultra. It's sad to see this $1,400 piece of tech get ripped apart, but in the name of self repair, it's totally worth it. Related: Galaxy S20 Ultra unboxing! In terms of repairability, it...

Motorola Razr Given Predictably Low Repairability Score by iFixit in Teardown

Tim February 13, 2020

iFixit has published its official teardown for the Motorola Razr, giving it what might possibly be the lowest repairability score I've seen. It's not in the negatives, as I'm not sure that's even possible, but on a 1 through 10 scale, it doesn't get any lower...