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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.
Thanks for the feedback, sir. I have edited the story to add what the LG G5 is, and when it was launched.
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.
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.