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The First Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max Teardown Arrives
Last week we speculated about what repairs will be like on Apple’s latest iPhones. It’s less than a week later, and we get our first good look insi...
The Apple iPhone 11: Brief and Early Thoughts on Repair [UPDATED]
A new Apple keynote brings with it three new iPhones, and with them comes a set of modest upgrades. Following months of rumors and leaks, the Apple...
“Damaged, Poor Quality, or Used”: A Word on Apple’s Important Battery Message
It’s no surprise to repair techs that when Apple finds the opportunity to sow distrust in third-party repair, it’ll do it. The only real surprise i...
Repair Report: Apple iPad Mini 5 and iPad Air 3
One year ago Apple gave us the 6th-generation iPad. In the Fall, it treated us to two new iPad Pros with larger screens and no home buttons. Now Ap...
The iPhone XR is Apple's New Best Bet
We’ve been chuckling at Apple’s latest iPhone XR commercial, which showed off the budget-friendly iPhone’s photographic capabilities, and incidenta...
Cut to the Chase: iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR
Apple was in the news last week. Something about a new iPhone or three.So let’s get excited! The iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR were unvei...
What’s Crackin? The iPhone X’s Camera Lens, That’s What.
The iPhone X’s back glass is a formidable foe, maybe an unbeatable one. As we learned in our teardown, removing the back glass is a stressful, tren...
Repair Tips for the Apple iPhone X
We pried open an Apple iPhone X the other day, and if you
haven’t reviewed other teardowns or read up on the X’s notorious fragility, it’s
a proc...
Repair Tips for the Google Pixel 2 XL
We performed our teardowns for the Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL at the same time, so we enjoyed a side-by-side comparison. The Pixel 2 proved to b...
Repair Tips for the Google Pixel 2
The Google Pixel 2 debuted this October, and what’d Google include in the new model? A snazzy new camera (upgrade from the first Pixel), Active ...
Repairing the Apple iPhone 8 and 8 Plus: Early Thoughts and Tips
The buzz about the Apple iPhone 8 has died down. Now its new owners are breaking it in, losing the delicate touch of early ownership, and sending i...
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