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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...

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...