Tech News If You Don’t Want Your Data Sold, Fairphone 6 Should Be Your Next Phone Do you ever wish that your smartphone was a little more like our cell phones of old? Phones where you could quickly swap in a new battery, or forget about… July 12, 2025 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Skills Why All Musicians Need a Good Soldering Iron Hey musicians! Instead of letting the GAS get the better of you and buying yet another guitar/synth/FX box that you’ll spend time learning and then sell on in a few months, why… July 11, 2025 by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit
Teardowns Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller Teardown: A Nightmare to Repair When it comes to repairability, the Switch 2 Pro Controller falls short in almost every way imaginable. July 10, 2025 by Shahram Mokhtari - iFixit
Repairability Designing a Repair Ecosystem: A Guide for OEMs Repairability starts with thoughtful design. Take the Fairphone 5 for example. Its battery can be removed in just four steps, thanks to a back panel secured with clips instead of… July 7, 2025 by Spencer Pennington - iFixit
Video Fairphone 6 Teardown: The Most Ethical Smartphone Yet? July 7, 2025 by Manuel Haeussermann - iFixit
Teardowns Fairphone 6 Teardown: Proof Phones Don’t Have to Be Disposable Remember when you could pop open a phone, swap the battery, and keep going? Fairphone remembers. Their latest release, the Fairphone 6, feels like a nostalgic nod to sanity, with… July 3, 2025 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Tools FixHub Is Here: Our Sold-Out Portable Soldering Line Is Shipping Now After months of demand and a sold-out launch, the FixHub Power Series portable soldering line is finally back—and this time, there’s no preorder wait. The FixHub line was designed with… July 1, 2025 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Right to Repair Texas Is Fixin’ to Fix Repair: Right to Repair Signed Into Law Everything’s bigger in Texas, even the bipartisan support for fixing what you own. Over the weekend, Governor Greg Abbott signed HB 2963, making Texas the first Republican-led state to enact… June 23, 2025 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Consumer Rights Ecodesign for Smartphones Now in Effect: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back Today, the European Union’s Ecodesign requirements for smartphones & tablets take effect. And they’re… fine. While the new rules do improve things, they are ultimately watered down by compromise and… June 20, 2025 by Manuel Haeussermann - iFixit
Teardowns Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 If you’ve been keeping an eye on repairable tech, you probably already know Framework as the underdog laptop maker doing what the big guys won’t: building devices that you can… June 18, 2025 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
