Repair Stories Fixing My Daughter’s Voice: An Important Battery Replacement Nate Hanson's 8-year-old daughter, Whitney, has an iPhone 3GS. But she doesn't use it to call her friends or play video games, as you might expect. Rather, for Whitney, the… April 6, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
How To Repair is Green: Two Simple iPhone Repairs You Can Do at Home If you bought an iPhone 4 when it came out on June 24, 2010, you've had it for 21 months now. But maybe you're not ready to upgrade. Maybe you… April 5, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Wallpapers X-Ray Vision: Now On Your iPhone 4S! We x-rayed an iPhone 4S—and now you can download the resulting image as an iPhone 4/4S wallpaper. If you pair it with a transparent rear panel, you'll be able see… April 3, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design New York Times Pimps iPhone Mods In a New York Times article today, Jenna Wortham discusses a variety of ways that tinkerers are making their iPhones stand out in a sea of identical devices, including some… April 2, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Tools New iPad Opening Tool We’ve been searching high and low for a better way to get inside the iPad. Our current method requires industrial strength suction cups, a heavy-duty 1500 watt heat gun, a… April 1, 2012 by Kyle Wiens - iFixit
E-Waste iFixit Is a State of Mind: Kyle’s Tekzilla Interview In a Tekzilla interview, Kyle chatted with Patrick Norton about why repairability of the iPad is important for the world. He outlines some of the complexities of the e-waste issue:… March 29, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
iFixit “Share It All”: Kyle Talks Repair with Leo Laporte Kyle sat down with TWiT's Leo Laporte this week to talk about how he came to start iFixit, why repairability is important, and the software that powers iFixit guides. He… March 28, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Repair Stories The Bad Kind of Crunch: A Broken LCD Screen Italian air traffic controller Luca Vetturi closed his laptop and heard a sickening crunch—upon opening it again, he discovered that he had accidentally left an earphone inside. Spider-webbed cracks spread… March 24, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Product Design TechCrunch Is Full of It: Repair Is Exactly What Consumers Need An article on TechCrunch yesterday by Matt Burns responded rather forcefully to our criticism of the new iPad. Burns says that Apple shouldn’t make the iPad user-serviceable. He explains, “If… March 21, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
Teardowns Apple TV Teardown Reveals Upgraded Wireless, Single-Core A5 We've just torn down the 3rd Generation Apple TV, Apple's streaming home theater device. During the teardown, we discovered that where there was one antenna, now there are two! We… March 19, 2012 by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit
