Recycling Recycling Industry Verifies iFixit’s Repairability Findings Dell’s products have consistently impressed us with their modularity and repairability. Time and time again, Dell’s products have scored well on our teardown table. The Dell XPS 10 even tops… April 12, 2014 by Julia Bluff
Gadgets Samsung Gear Fit: Another Wearable Hits the Teardown Table Today we focus on taking apart the Gear Fit. This little gus has quite the unique construction, given its round shape. The motherboard is split into three separate pieces, and… April 11, 2014 by Miro Djuric
Teardowns Galaxy S5 Earns Lowest Repair Score for a Samsung Phone Yet Following the fixable Gear 2, the S5 is a bit of a disappointment. Samsung made things harder to fix. The S III and S4 featured internal components on the back… April 10, 2014 by Miro Djuric
Gadgets Can a Device Be Wearable and Repairable? Equipped with screws and a snap-off rear case, the Gear 2 is a sturdy device you won’t need to baby, or feel guilty about buying. When the battery fails, you… April 9, 2014 by Andrew Goldheart
Gadgets Amazon TV Fire Earns Mid-Pack Repair Score Two days ago Amazon announced a tiny black box that supposedly does everything better than all of the other tiny black boxes. Always excited to investigate such claims, we ordered… April 4, 2014 by Miro Djuric
Product Design I Don’t Want a Smartphone, I Want a Fairphone I admit it. I’m one of millions of Americans sporting a slick, wafer-thin cell phone. And, like so many others, I’m rarely (if ever) without it. But if we all… April 3, 2014 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Events Repair First, Recycle Later There are a lot of reasons why I’m involved in repair culture. Repair makes me feel empowered, it helps me learn engineering, and it connects me to my things. But… March 27, 2014 by Cait Emma Smith
Teardowns The New HTC One Doubles Repair Score, Still Flunks the Test Just shy of a year after the release of HTC's "One" flagship smartphone, the lovingly-named HTC One (M8) is out, and "all new." So what happened to the least repairable… March 26, 2014 by Miro Djuric
Fixers The iFixit Xbox One Giveaway Winner Ended Up Being the Coolest Ever Confidence comes from the comfort. But that comes with years and years of experience. I think that a lot of people who are new to the idea of repair have… March 24, 2014 by Cait Emma Smith
Fixers Detox from Consumerism by Fixing the Things You Already Own About 20 years ago, the mom-and-pop repair shops that used to be a staple of every community started to disappear—shunted out of business by an onslaught of goods designed to… March 20, 2014 by Julia Bluff