Posts tagged teardown

Once you get to this stage, you have a serious problem. Photo: Android Police

Once you get to this stage, you have a serious problem. Photo: Android Police

Unless you’ve only just discovered the Internet, you’ll already be familiar with an apparent Galaxy Note 5 design flaw that causes its S Pen stylus to become stuck when reinserted upside down.

Now a new teardown image reveals exactly what causes the expensive jam.

Inside the LG Watch Urbane. Photo: LG

Inside the LG Watch Urbane. Photo: LG

Tiny gadgets are rarely easy to fix yourself if you break them, but an iFixit teardown of the new LG Watch Urbane reveals it’s much more repair-friendly than you might think. In fact, it’s so easy to mend that it gets a 7 out of 10 repairability score.

Inside the Galaxy S6. Screenshot: Cult of Android

Inside the Galaxy S6. Screenshot: Cult of Android

Samsung has already made it clear that the Galaxy S6 doesn’t have a removable battery like its predecessors, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be replaced at all. The 17-minute teardown video below proves it is possible to get under the handset’s hood to its internals.

Oculus-Rift-Note-3-display

iFixit performed a customary teardown of the second-generation Oculus Rift developer kit this week, and upon removing the headset’s LCD display, they discovered something unexpected — an actual Galaxy Note 3 front panel, complete with Samsung logo and cutouts for a headset speaker and home button.

G-Watch-teardown

LG’s new G Watch goes on sale around the world today, and already the device has been given its customary teardown from the repair experts at iFixit. Despite its size, the new Android Wear smartwatch is surprisingly easy to get into, and even easier to repair — earning a repairability score of 9 out of 10.

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