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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.
By June, I'm expecting full featured commercials, with videos of people unable to operate a milk carton, in Slashdot frontpage.
Who repairs his phone?
Only smelly neckbeard losers care about shit like this. Most people just want a phone that works. When it breaks they buy a new one
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.
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.
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.
Fingerprint sensor built into the power button?
No thanks.
.. 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.