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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...

Pixel 4 XL Teardown Reveals Samsung Display, Almost Decent Repairability Score

Tim October 24, 2019

The good people at iFixit published their Pixel 4 XL teardown this week, detailing the innards of Google's latest flagship phone. As you'd expect, they found micro chips, adhesive, plus a whole assortment of odds and ends that when compiled, create something...

iFixit: Plastic Pixel is Pretty Fixable, Receives 6/10 Repairability Score

Tim May 9, 2019

According to the good folks at iFixit, Google's latest entry into the Pixel line, the Pixel 3a XL, is a lot easier to self repair than other devices currently on the market. For all of you #RightToRepair people, this is good. Apparently, opening up the Pixel...

Galaxy Fold Gets a Teardown, an Accident Waiting to Happen

Tim April 24, 2019

Samsung's Galaxy Fold is a testament to mobile hardware design. Somehow, the company's engineers were able to create a phone that folds, incorporates two separate Li-ion batteries, utilizes a spine consisting of well-designed clasps and hinges, and it isn't...

iFixit Tears Down the Galaxy S10 Lineup, Finds Self Repairability to be a Nightmare

Tim March 6, 2019

We have another teardown from the great folks at iFixit, this time of the Galaxy S10 lineup. While the overall process and end result is mostly the same, Samsung did bake in a couple of new things that we're curious about in the S10 and S10+, most notably the...

Galaxy Note 9 Innards Detailed in Teardown From iFixIt

Tim August 27, 2018

The good folks at iFixIt posted a new teardown this week, all about the Galaxy Note 9 from Samsung. In these teardowns, owners can get an idea of just how difficult self repairing one of these phones can be and non-owners can just take pleasure in watching...