Motorola and iFixit partner to sell phone repair kits
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#2>battery eliminators became obsolete //
Seems there would still be a [small?] market for them?
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#3Nice! Although it's not clear from looking at the store whether this covers all the most recent models or just some older variants of e.g. Moto Z?
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#4> He challenged his engineers to design an inexpensive radio that could be installed in most vehicles
In the late 1970's, as a teen, I was given an old Motorola car radio. It was all metal, greenish blue, no plastic. It had vacuum tubes! And it actually worked. It was very well built. Like a tank. I opened it up for inspection. When powered on, it made a very quiet buzzing sound. There was a "vibrator" (yes that is what it was called), used with a transformer to get the high voltages for the tubes. With just a short lead connected to the antenna connector, it could receive nearby radio stations. It's speaker had the impedance matching transformer typical of vacuum tube equipment I had seen in TVs and radios.
As a teen I didn't realize how short life is and that radio might have been a good thing to hang on to.
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#5Looks like my next phone will be a Motorola! I'm tired of "upgrading" phones every couple of years because the battery wears out.
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#6>battery eliminators became obsolete // Seems there would still be a [small?] market for them?
There's a small market for most obsolete things, usually not a profitable one.
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#7This is a really cool place for a company to situate themselves. I always felt Motorola was the power user brand of the Android world, and there's something very Radio Shack about being able to buy replacement parts for your phone.
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#8Looks like my next phone will be a Motorola! I'm tired of "upgrading" phones every couple of years because the battery wears out.
FWIW, you can now get an official iPhone battery replacement for $30 on the "last-gen" models, or for free with Applecare.
https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-power
It looks like on some issues, we still have market power.
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#9One (relatively small) criticism: there doesn't appear to be a way to purchase the repair parts without getting the tools, as well. I already have a deluxe toolkit from iFixit, so I'd be getting tools I don't need—ironically, leading to some waste (though far less than disposing of a phone, of course).
Edit: never mind! There is a "part only" option for each kit.
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#10I have a lot of respect for iFixit. They at least appear to have their heads screwed on right, and the tools I've bought from them do really seem to be good quality.
My only recent "complex" task that needed their tools was adding a hybrid water cooler to a 1080ti GPU. Their stuff was great, and their customer service has been good too. (EDIT: I meant to say, the addition went well due to their tools, good quality stuff means easier job with tiny screws)
I'd love to see the right to repair/replace be enshrined in law. It's possible to strike a balance between tiny components and being able to replace them. My phone, a LG V20, is very thin, yet has a replaceable battery and is still waterproof to a "certain extent" (MIL-STD-810G but I'm not sure what exactly that means for waterproof-ness). Which is kind of amusing because I dropped the damn thing in the sink for the first time ever this morning.
I'd love to see something like T-Mobile partner with iFixit and certify particular phones to be user or expert repairable.
Hopefully this is the start of a larger movement in the world.
(EDIT2: I really didn't intend this comment to sound so public-relation-y. I swear I'm not a product placement shill!)