Wednesday, March 9, 2016

The Galaxy S7 Bears All In iFixit's Teardown, And It's Even Harder To Repair Than Last Year's Model

The folks at iFixit are all about empowering consumers to repair their own devices. But they never said that was easy, and such is the case with Samsung's 2016 flagship. As usual iFixit has meticulously torn apart the Galaxy S7 for your education and entertainment, and unsurprisingly, the components are even more intricate and hard to replace than they were on the Galaxy S6. Warning: gratuitous phone guts below.

To be fair, it doesn't seem like Samsung is intentionally making their phones difficult to fix - that's just a by-product of the incredible engineering that goes into making more and more powerful electronic components that are smaller and smaller.

The Galaxy S7 Bears All In iFixit's Teardown, And It's Even Harder To Repair Than Last Year's Model was written by the awesome team at Android Police.