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LG G5 Gets a High 8/10 Repairability Score (geek.com)
An anonymous reader shares an article from Geek.com: The one thing that makes LG's G5, the flagship smartphone it launched in February, stand out from the crowd is its modularity. As iFixit learned, that means more than just being able to quickly swap the battery for a camera grip or DAC. In its teardown, iFixit found that LG has made it easy to replace lots of the G5's parts. The process might not be as simple as giving the phone a squeeze and sliding a module out, but it's a heck of a lot easier than it is with many phones and tablets. [...] All in all, it makes for a pretty tidy teardown and it earned the G5 an impressive 8/10.
My kid's lego bricks have a 10/10 reparability score.
The one thing that makes LG's G5 stand out from the crowd is its modularity...
I know, I'm over 35 so I'm a luddite. Is this a new car? The "story" such that it is, is not really very descriptive.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
The wife just got an LG G4, which has a smilar repairability rating. The only minor down side is poor battery life, but with a replaceable battery this is fixable. Alas, you can't factory-unlock them like the HTC phones. Still, this is a step in the Right Direction.
I can read faster than you can talk. This is why doomed Slashdot video and Fark.tv. Videos are about the presenter, not the product.
Thanks for the feedback -- though I must note that it's not a commercial. We understand that the vast majority of Slashdot community owns a smartphone, and our readers are more opinionated and have more far wider expertise and knowledge about computing products and how different technologies work. This has also led us to believe that many of us, if not all, try not to run to a repair center everytime our device dies on us, or causes some sort of trouble. Which is why we deemed iFixit's report on how repairable a particular device is, as worthy of being something that would interest our readers. But again, let me assure you that we hear you, and take your feedback very seriously. If many readers share a similar opinion as of yours, we assure you that we would curtail, if not completely stop approving such content.
But iFixit's guide is probably an ad itself. It certainly feels like it.
With a One Million Slashdot number, you are not really in a position to say that.
You can safely ignore any 7-digit UID feedback. Just lettin' ya know.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
I'm not a fan of video articles either. However, with some things, it's worth it. I haven't looked at this video yet, but I've seen similar ones on YouTube and they can be definitely worth the viewing. For a phone teardown, the video format can prove really useful because you can actually show how the phone is taken apart, instead of just writing about it. A picture's worth 1000 words and all that...
Whenever I want to see how to take something apart to fix it, YouTube videos showing the process is definitely my first avenue of search.
Where video is really useless is when it's just some talking head talking about something, such as with news reports. Those should be specifically banned. But when the video is showing you **how to do something**, that's invaluable and not easily replaced by text.
Of course it's a fine line to walk. When a manufacturer does do something atypical, it does deserve attention, when good or bad depending on what it was. LG has released a device catering to the desire for modularity, it deserves a bit of credit. On the other hand, the possibilities described are pretty uninteresting to me, apart from maybe the swappable battery, but with fast charging, large batteries, and external batteries, I haven't really felt that need so much anymore.
On the other hand, the tech media in general tends to be generally positive on everything, gamed extensively by the vendors. So it's hard to make sense of tech media.
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
A major manufacturer making phones user serviceable deserve that praise.
With the trend going to sealed batteries and glue everywhere, it is good to know some manufacturers still do things well. Kudos to the Fairphone 2 BTW, this phone even have fucking disassembly instructions printed on it.
Just look at the Samsung repairablity scores for instance (S3:8, S4:8, S5:5, S6:4, S7:3). The latest HTC and Nexus have horrible scores too.
But iFixit's guide is probably an ad itself. It certainly feels like it.
Yes yes, everything's a fucking advert these days.
OH I forgot: /sarcasm
In my life, I've replaced 2 cracked smartphone screens and multiple batteries, so this is a big deal for me. If I don't have to worry about the manufacture support this will be a likely candidate for my next phone upgrade.
Looking at the specs, the only thing that bothers me is the resolution. I have 20/20 vision and I can't see the pixels on my current 720p smartphone. I'd much rather use the extra GPU power for gaming and gain the extra battery life that a lower rez screen would afford. Too bad people care more about a spec sheet number than gaming performance and battery life.
And 6 digit ones too.
"Even Prophets don't know everything"
A lot of /.ers say "I won't buy a smart phone without a replaceable battery and SD card slot". Where, here you go: the LG G* series is the last flagship phones to have both of these features. Plus it has an easily unlockable bootloader, for those who enjoy flashing custom ROMs. However I would still at this point get the LG G3, as it's "good enough" and half the price. The G5 in particular is kind of a shite upgrade, with a smaller screen and worse battery life.
Whoop dee doo...
It's a HTC phone which means that if they haven't already abandoned updates for it, it's certainly going to happen within months. I've had 2 HTC work phones and spent way too much time asking their support why they removed upgrades for phones less than 6 months old from their web site instead of leaving the outdated but still most recent firmware up.
_Never_again_.
Some of you may appreciate spending hours and days fiddling with your phones to replace this or that (whether it's hardware or software). I've found more enjoyable/rewarding outlets for my free time.
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
And as somebody who self-services a lot of devices (and has a spouse with a tendency to be hard on devices), this is good information. We actually just replaced an S4 with an Asus Zenfone2 because it was the most reasonable unlocked replacement that still had a swappable battery/SD-card. I hadn't even really looked at the LG phones but it sounds like something that I should keep on the radar.
That far my main experience has been with iDevices and Samsungs. The Samsungs haven't been too bad (replacing things like the USB port connector etc is quite easy), but I've found iPhones got increasingly more painful over item, but the Sammy's were at least reasonable up to the S5.
But when the video is showing you **how to do something**, that's invaluable and not easily replaced by text.
The article in question:
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardow...
iFixit teardowns are pretty informative; the photo shoot and step by step explanation of the disassembly below is pretty informative and the pictures are great.
Yes there is a video, and no I didn't watch it, but in this case having the video available is an asset. It's just another resource on an already excellent page for someone who wants more. The page is worth visiting even if you don't look at the video, and that's rare.
I don't know what people are bitching about.
Fingerprint sensor built into the power button?
No thanks.
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Slashdot management admits to censoring it's users based on their opinions!
Some of us had WinMo phones on 2G, and just couldn't quite get signed up in time!
.. it's still not the 10/10 of the Fairphone 2 (spare parts here).
Anyway, nice to see a small competition heating up on other areas than size or price.
I don't know what people are bitching about.
Maybe they've been burned too many times with shitty, useless videos. But yeah, done well and for the right applications, video is a great asset.
And high school dropouts who make weed lights for a living.