Sooner or later it happens to the best of us: Your smartphone screen cracks. A professional replacement can be expensive. If your phone isn't under warranty, older, or both, paying to fix it might not ...

Make every phone user-repairable. Make every phone user-repairable. is a senior reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Sooner or later it happens to the best of us: Your smartphone screen cracks. A professional replacement can be expensive, but there's other ways to help. There are some cheaper DIY ...

Repairing a phone is harder than it needs to be. With phone manufacturers spending the last decade chasing device slimness and building devices meant to last however long a phone contract lasts, user ...

If you own it, you should be able to fix it. That’s the essence of the Right-To-Repair movement. Advocates have been pushing back against the trend of companies intentionally making products that are ...

You could almost see it happening in slow motion: your smartphone is in your hand one moment, and the next thing you know, it’s barreling toward the ground in a nosedive. Sometimes the layers of glass ...

Update 04/27/2022: Apple has officially released its DIY phone repair service. Apple customers living in the United States may now purchase parts that can be used to repair an iPhone 12, iPhone 13, ...

Apple has once again run into a problem by making things difficult for independent repair shops to fix or replace things in the iPhone. This time the issue is the iPhone 13 screen and Face ID facial ...

Reader Ryan Mottau built this awesome DIY smartphone car mount using our favorite DIY wonder-tool, the binder clip. Here's how he did it. Problem: I wanted to take full advantage of the mapping and ...

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