Wallpapers New iPhone XR Teardown Wallpapers Are Here Apple just brought their latest bundle of iPhone joy into the family: the iPhone XR. So, as to be expected, we’re bringing you our newest set of teardown wallpapers. Hiding… October 30, 2018 by Kelsea Weber - iFixit
How Tech Works iPhones Are Allergic to Helium This is the kind of tale that you don’t hear every day. During the installation of a new MRI machine, a technician started getting calls that iPhones weren’t working—but Androids… October 30, 2018 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Teardowns The iPhone XR Is the Lost iPhone 9 You’ve Been Looking For If you’re wondering what happened to the iPhone 9, we found it: It’s masquerading as the iPhone XR. A peek under the hood revealed design hallmarks reminiscent of both the iPhone… October 26, 2018 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Legislation Copyright Office Ruling Issues Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms Six months ago, on a sunny spring day in LA, I donned a suit—a rare event—and walked into a courtroom at UCLA. With me were Robert Miranda, a 24-year-old entrepreneur… October 25, 2018 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
Site News Motorola and iFixit—A Match Made in Mobile Motorola was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1928. With just $565 to their name, brothers Paul and Joseph Galvin purchased business plans from a bankrupt tech company, rented out a… October 22, 2018 by Elise Barsch - iFixit
Wallpapers See Every Speck of the Surface Pro 6 With Our Teardown Wallpaper On the other side of a whole lotta heat, the Surface Pro 6 revealed the same exact battery, speaker, and camera as last year’s Surface Pro 5. However, Microsoft’s eighth… October 17, 2018 by Elise Barsch - iFixit
Gadgets Surface Pro 5 + Black = Surface Pro 6 Microsoft is back in black with the Surface Pro 6. The Pro line adds more processor cores (and more heat) seemingly without much additional heat management. We found some new heat… October 17, 2018 by Sam Goldheart - iFixit
Teardowns Pixel 3 XL Teardown: A Google Phone With a Samsung Screen Dismembering the Google Pixel 3 XL gave us quite a fright. The display-first design we saw in the Pixel 2 has unexpectedly disappeared! But what really shocked us was discovering the all-new Samsung… October 16, 2018 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Activism We’re Afraid of Warranty Stickers, but Really, Manufacturers Should Be According to a survey published today by consumer group U.S. PIRG, 45 out of 50 appliance manufacturers automatically void the warranty of a device if it has undergone “unauthorized” repair.… October 11, 2018 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Tech News Apple’s Secret Repair Kill Switch Hasn’t Been Activated—Yet Well, stop the presses. Turns out, ‘Apple makes your MacBook inoperative if you get it fixed at local repair shops’ isn’t quite true—not yet, no matter what The Sun says.… October 5, 2018 by Adam O'Camb