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Motorola Becomes First Smartphone Company To Sell DIY Repair Kits To Its Customers (vice.com)
As Apple continues to fight independent repair, Motorola has partnered with iFixit and pledged to support the right to repair movement. From a report: It is excellent news that Motorola has decided to make it as easy as possible for you to repair your phone. The company announced that it would begin selling replacement parts for all of its recent phones to customers, and it has partnered with iFixit to sell repair kits for phones like the Moto X, Z, G4, G5, and Droid Turbo 2. The kits come with tools, genuine Motorola-branded replacement parts, and instructions on how to fix your device. iFixit is currently selling replacement batteries, screens, and digitizer assemblies. "Motorola is setting an example for major manufacturers to embrace a more open attitude towards repair," iFixit wrote in a blog post announcing the partnership. "For fixers like us, this partnership is representative of a broader movement in support of our Right to Repair. It's proof that OEM manufacturers and independent repair can co-exist. Big business and social responsibility, and innovation and sustainability, don't need to be mutually exclusive."
And I mean screws visible from the outside, no glue, easy to disassemble.
If you want to fix your software, they'll tell you to get stuffed.
I remember working at a cellular retailer that sold Nextel phones. Nextel phones (pre Sprint merger) were awesome - available and easily replaceable parts, not to mention their durability. Sure they were huge, clunky, and most lacked niceties like a color screen, but interesting they want to bring that legacy back.
I doubt there will be that many takers for repair kits because dealing with the tiny parts used in modern electronics is not a skill most folks have or want to develop. But maybe there are enough potential customers and independent repair folks to make the repair kits a viable market niche. I'm skeptical. But I hope I'm wrong.
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey
So , what kind of attention is being caught with such shameful opinion? So many smart people are asked to dissassemble and reassemble stuff, and learn with the process. Its also possible to identify good hardware If It can be repaired
I have two Nexus 5 phones (for myself and my wife) that have together had six screen replacements and four battery replacements. I've done this all myself and I'm now getting quite good at it. Replacement screens and batteries are inexpensive and readily available. These phones are over five years old and they still work just fine. They run all of the current communications protocols (LTE, 3G, Bluetooth, Near Field, etc.) so they are not yet obsolete. The latest version of open source software is available for them.
I really appreciate not spending money on new phones every few years.
I think manufacturers need to realize that this is mature technology and customers don't need to upgrade frequently. The latest phones are just bells and whistles. The current focus is on better cameras and the new ones are better but I'm not a professional photographer and if I was I wouldn't use a camera phone. The "old" 8MP camera in the Nexus 5 is just fine for snaps.
Happy to see Motorola taking this route instead of trying to extort money for a new sale from you.
(ProTip... any glue used for phone assembly is easily softened with a heat gun.)
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
And when you say Motorola, you mean Lenovo.....
Motorola is not "the first smartphone company"! Fairphone has been doing it from the start: https://www.fairphone.com/en/
And Fairphone got a 10 out 10 from iFixit already in 2015: https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Fairphone_2
I have no affiliation whatsoever with Fairphone.
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Too bad the list doesn't include replacement parts for the Nexus 6, which was also made by Motorola.
If your consumer wants cell phones, sell cell phones. If your consumer wants spare parts for his cell phone, sell spare parts for him (and upgrades where possible).
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SamsungParts - Mobile phone section
from the company that spun off all it's good stuff so it can concentrate on making webpages?
My phone is dying and was already looking at Moto as the replacement, very favorably. This seals it. I am buying X4.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
At worst these posts are done because someone thinks it's funny to get a rise out of people like you. At best it's a form of culture jamming, that provides an absurd parody of racism that no reasonable person could accept. If we can nearly unanimously agree there is some line that should not be crossed with regards to treatment of different races in our society, then we have some hope that we can peacefully discuss the social problems we all face reach a satisfactory compromise in our society.
But mostly he thinks it's funny to beat a dead horse for a decade+
Moto is probably the first to break the forced upgrade by sealed battery, unrepairable designs of cell phones. Pretty soon the reviews will include robustness, reliability, durability, repair costs, total cost of ownership etc. All the other metrics like resolution and features are pretty much common. It has to happen. Glad it has finally happened.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
I suspect that was a troll.
Very cool, this reinforces my decision to switch brand allegiance from Google Nexus to Moto. Last Google branded phone was Nexus 4, it seems to me that Google lost the plot after that, possibly due to Apple Envy.
Now the next thing I want from Motorola: right to upgrade. I should not stop getting ROM updates after just two years or so. Cutting off ROM updates doesn't make me upgrade sooner, it just makes me angry and more likely to switch brands. I'm ok with offline update, it doesn't need to be OTA. Just stand behind your product for more than 2 years.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
I've been repairing electronics, since the era of vacuum tubes, transistors, through to IC's. I've also repaired many smartphones. Even at my age, my skills, sometimes it is like doing nerve surgery. Moto might be releasing this, as a way for people to jack up their phones to the point, they have to buy new ones. ;)
and when my current Oneplus X breaks down I will certainly take a look at motorola's line of phones if any would fit my need.
Because the made to be obsolete paradigm is wasteful and should not be condoned.
Any effort or intent to curtail consumerism should be applauded, because sooner or later (under current gravity well lock-in) humanity must realize that earth is a closed environment.
Yeah, so $150 to refurb my old Moto X Pure with a screen and battery, vs. waiting for a decent phone to go on sale for $250 every month or so with a warranty, better CPU, more memory, more storage.
I mean, it's nice that you can and all, but holy cow those are inflated prices for parts.
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