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Huawei P30 Pro Teardown Wallpaper

The Huawei P30 Pro is here, but it wasn’t going to get past us without a teardown first, as well as a sweet teardown wallpaper to go with it. The…

April 18, 2019

by Craig Lloyd - iFixit

Scandal

Samsung’s Galaxy Folds Are Breaking After Only a Few Days

Samsung’s much-anticipated Galaxy Fold phone/tablet hybrid is almost here. But with the April 26 release date inching closer, multiple reviewers are already having problems with the flexible OLED screen after…

April 17, 2019

by Whitson Gordon

Product Design

The Most Common Ways Manufacturers Prevent You From Repairing Your Devices

Unlike the Highlander, your phone and laptop are not immortal. One day, something will break—you’ll crack the screen, or your battery will become so old it can’t hold a charge.…

April 17, 2019

by Whitson Gordon

Teardowns

Huawei P30 Pro Teardown: Not Quite Black Hole Photography, but Close

The new Huawei P30 Pro aims for superlatives in mobile photography: a new sensor pattern for its main camera, a 50x SuperZoom, and four cameras in total. You might not…

April 17, 2019

by Dorothea Kessler - iFixit

Consumer Rights

Warranty-Voiding Stickers Are Illegal. These Companies Still Use Them

Remember that scene in The Big Bang Theory where the gang wants to upgrade the hard drive in their DVR, but Sheldon is hesitant because it’ll void the warranty? I…

April 15, 2019

by Craig Lloyd - iFixit

Right to Repair

Right to Repair Is a Free Market Issue

Top image by Johan Viirok/Flickr Last week, The New York Times’ editorial board endorsed the Right to Repair movement. While spurred by Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) support for a farmer-focused…

April 12, 2019

by Kevin Purdy

How To

What to Do When Your iPhone Screen Breaks

When you drop your phone, time tends to slow down. It slips out of your hand and makes a beeline for the concrete, your heart dropping into your stomach as…

April 8, 2019

by Craig Lloyd - iFixit

Scandal

Apple Won’t Tell You How to Get Your iPhone’s Data Back—So Here’s How

Imagine you’re on a canoe trip and you’ve taken thousands of photos of your journey. Suddenly, your phone falls into the lake and becomes water damaged. You didn’t have an…

April 5, 2019

by Craig Lloyd - iFixit

Wallpapers

iPad Air 3 Teardown Wallpapers

The iPad Air 3 is out—and so is our iPad Air 3 teardown. We also made some pretty awesome teardown wallpapers that you can use on your own iPad Air…

April 3, 2019

by Craig Lloyd - iFixit

Teardowns

iPad Air 3 Teardown: Which One Is This Again?

It’s official: we’ve reached peak iPad. Yesterday, we tore down the iPad Mini 5 and found a couple of minor design updates with a smidge of new silicon. Today, we took…

April 3, 2019

by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit

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