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iFixit publishes free repair guides and sells replacement parts and tools, and rates consumer electronics on a repairability scale.
iFixit scored the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 at 4 out of 10 for repairability, up one point for the base model and flat for the Ultra. Repair budgets should treat every battery job as a screen job, and every Series 12 screen job as a battery job too.
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Apple has priced the iPhone 18 Pro from £1,199, £100 above last year's models, a rise the Guardian blames on memory costs. Its faster chip and longer battery are real gains, but they make a thin case for retiring year-old company phones early.
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iFixit gave AirPods 5 a 2/10 repairability score, the first above zero for any AirPods, because the earbud batteries can be swapped without destroying the buds. For an owner with a fading pair, a battery swap by a skilled repairer is now a practical fix.
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The Gen 6+ sells for $649.99 and is the first Fairphone the company has sold directly in America. The argument it makes is arithmetic, not atmosphere.
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iFixit's teardown of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max finds real precision in the new magnet-driven aperture and a service path that ends in whole-assembly replacement, plus screen frames that tore on the way in.
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iFixit says a stuck aperture on the iPhone 18 Pro likely takes a new main camera assembly, and it points at the phone's improved cooling to explain the display frames that cracked on three of the four units it opened.
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The camera toothbrush went on sale in US stores on September 8 and was gone from shops in France, the US, UK and Singapore by September 15. Dyson blames one unnamed component in early batches.
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Meta's spring launch price of $1,299 puts 100 grams on the face and a 300-gram compute puck on a cable, and the published evidence for wearing it through a working day is one 30-minute hands-on by PCMag.
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The glasses reach 100 grams because the computer rides in a pocket. On paper the panels beat Apple's. PCMag's reviewer still saw graininess in video and in passthrough during a 30-minute session.
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Consumer chatbots are now walking people through repairs their manufacturers never documented. Two law professors told Fast Company that makers will respond by locking repair information down harder.
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Samsung's mechanical R&D chief tells WIRED that weight is the entire game in foldables, and his phone is now lighter than the company's own slab flagship. The grams came out of the camera and the dust seal.
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9to5Google's read on the new Pixels is that most of what is new will reach older phones within months. That is an argument for delaying a refresh, not funding one.
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