Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Motorola is iFixit’s first major phone maker to supply official repair parts

Phone companies usually want to stop you from repairing your own devices, or even going to a third-party repair shop. But Motorola is taking a different approach: it’s partnering with iFixit, the repair guide site famous for its device teardowns, to offer battery and screen replacement kits for a number of its phones.

The kits range from $40 to $200 and include the key replacement parts — either a battery or a display and digitizer — along with many of the speciality tools you’ll need to complete the repair, like angled tweezers and specialty screw bits. Each is paired with an online guide that takes you through the steps involved to complete the repair yourself.

iFixit says that Motorola is the “first major smartphone manufacturer ever”...

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