Product Design Greenpeace Grades Your Smartphone’s Maker on Sustainability Greenpeace released its 19th Guide to Greener Electronics, a report that grades companies based on sustainability efforts. And, according to Greenpeace, most of the world’s renowned tech companies—including Samsung, Google,… October 30, 2017 by Julia Bluff
Contests Scary Repair Contest Tell us about your grossest, scariest, most hair-raising repairs—and you might just win a really nice Halloween treat: a Pro-Tech Treat. Visit iFixit.org for contest details. October 23, 2017 by Kelsea Weber - iFixit
Teardowns Google Pixel 2 XL Teardown: How the “Active Edge” Feature Works Google's "Active Edge" feature actually feels new—so we took apart the Pixel 2 XL to figure out how it works. Turns out the input method is similar to the MacBook’s… October 19, 2017 by Sam Goldheart - iFixit
Gadgets This SNES Classic Edition Teardown Gave Us All the Nostalgia It took us awhile, but we finally managed to get our hands on the crazy-popular, highly-coveted SNES Classic Edition. Out of the box, the mini-console—with its familiar external construction—is designed… October 13, 2017 by Eric Essen
Tech News Despite Lawsuits, Apple Can’t Break Up With Qualcomm Even with mounting tensions and lawsuits in no fewer than three countries, Apple’s latest batch of watches shows the Cupertino company just can’t break up with Qualcomm. September 28, 2017 by Adam O'Camb
Events iFixit Is Going to London’s Fixfest Join iFixit in London for the first ever international Fixfest on Oct 6-8! Fixfest is hosted by one of our very favorite organizations, the London-based charity Restart Project. September 28, 2017 by Julia Bluff
Teardowns Apple TV 4K Priority: Be Cool With 4K and HDR streaming capabilities, the new Apple TV 4K brings the heat. Heat wreaks some serious havoc on electronics—from cracked solder to fried chips—so Apple popped a fan… September 26, 2017 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
Teardowns Apple Watch Series 3 Teardown In a weird twist of tech, this Apple Watch added features without really changing... at all. So much so that we’re tempted to speculate that the Watch hardware has been… September 25, 2017 by Sam Goldheart - iFixit
Teardowns iPhone 8 Plus Teardown: Just How Difficult Is That Glass Back Panel? The iPhone 8 Plus has roughly the same architecture we found in our iPhone 8 teardown, with just a little more room to stretch your thumbs. For an authentic repair… September 22, 2017 by Julia Bluff
Teardowns Apple Says the iPhone 8 Isn’t an iPhone 7s—Its Internals Say Otherwise Aside from the glass, the iPhone 8 felt a lot more familiar than we expected for a phone that’s supposed to be a generation all in its own. Maybe Apple’s… September 22, 2017 by Kay Kay Clapp - iFixit
