130 hours into Starfield, one player had a revelation that a lot of players seem to concur with: "Starfield is missing the weird, crazy story bosses to kill and weird, crazy named weapons and armor." Fair warning, this article contains spoilers for Starfield (Elder Scrolls and Fallout, too) so don't come at me.
iPhone 15 Teardowns Are Disappointing for Repairability, Durability
25.09.2023 - 17:52 / pcmag.com
With every new Apple device comes a new teardown, and between the JerryRigEverything YouTube channel, iFixit, and others, we now know everything there is to know about the inner workings of the iPhone 15 and latest Apple Watches. Unfortunately, the results aren't great.
The most surprising iPhone 15 teardown and durability results likely came from Zack Nelson's JerryRigEverything channel. Compared to iFixit's meticulous examination of gadgets, Zach's methods are much more rough. By the end of every durability test, he'll scratch every surface, expose the device to flame, and more. The final stage is a bend and flex test, where Nelson tries to break the phone with his bare hands.
For years, iPhones have stood these tests well and shown little to no give. But when he started to bend the iPhone 15 Pro Max, the black glass completely shattered under the pressure. Thankfully, the standard iPhone 15 Pro held up well. But a follow-up disassembly video revealed a soldered antennae that doesn't bode well for repairs.
That trend holds up in iFixit's teardown, which praised the new easier-to-repair back glass on the 15 Pro series. But even that's not all good news: instead of allowing for battery replacements by removing the back, the Pro series still requires a display removal. If you need to replace the battery in your iPhone 15 Pro, you'll have to risk breaking your display.
But things get worse from there: iFixit purchased multiple iPhones and attempted to swap parts from one to another. Part swapping is a common repair tactic: you stick with genuine Apple parts and keep otherwise good material out of the ground. Unfortunately, Apple's trend of part pairing has only continued.
Through its tests, iFixit found if you repair your iPhone with an Apple-made display, rear-camera LiDAR sensor, or battery from another iPhone, the fixed iPhone 15 will still give you "this part may not be genuine" warnings. And in some cases, the part may not work at all. Replacing the biometrics components, rear camera assembly, and selfie camera also yielded non-functioning results. Parts pairing is why iFixit retroactively dropped its iPhone 14 Pro repair score to a four, and the latest iPhone 15 Pro gets the same score.
The new titanium and aluminum bonded frame also lead to recyclability questions: electronic recycles don't usually work with titanium, and if these frames end up in an aluminum cutting machine, it may dull the blades. It's possible that could see testing sooner than later if AppleTrack's video is any indicator. In an admittedly not very scientific test, the iPhone 14 Pro held up much better in drop tests than its successor.
As for the Apple Watches, as we suspected, there's almost nothing new here. When iFixit
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