A part installed in a phone should just work. Ever since we invented interchangeable parts in the 1800s, parts have been swappable between products. Software shouldn’t be an obstacle to harvesting parts, or using aftermarket parts for that matter. The entire economy of reuse depends on interoperability, from local repair shops to large scale refurbishers to recyclers. Sure enough, once we separated the main boards, we can confirm that Apple is using Qualcomm’s high end Snapdragon X70 modem. According to Qualcomm, it’s powered by AI for beam management and antenna tuning. AI and 5G? We’ve heard that before! Alas 8K is nowhere to be seen. Creativity is just a particular way of thinking that can be learned and practised like any other skill." This notable achievement is worth celebrating. For the first time, Apple’s keynote discussed repairability: One thing we were not expecting to find is an Apple baseband processor. Apple’s 5G modem team has been toiling in isolation for years without any hardware to show for it. We’re not sure who to feel for, Tim Cook’s wallet or the poor Apple lawyers who had to grovel with Qualcomm a new contract. Amazingly, the hundreds of engineers working on this project for first-Infineon, then-Intel, and now-Apple have yet to ship a single 5G modem to customers. That’s got to be demoralizing.

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This inverted chassis arrangement makes critical repairs like battery swaps slightly riskier than on the 14, because you’re removing the expensive, fragile display rather than an inert sheet of glass.The biggest limits with photography have always been physical, rather than technological. There are some laws of optics you just can’t engineer your way through. This is why DSLR and mirrorless camera lenses are so big and heavy. To provide long focal lengths and wide apertures, lenses themselves have to be a certain size. Wilcox created the glasses from one sheet of mirrored acrylic with a slight bend to ensure that the smaller mirror can reflect the bigger one, resulting in better sight for the wearer. IMAGE: Dominic Wilcox It’s time for an urgent conversation about Apple’s approach to repairability. Despite our enthusiasm for iPhone 14’s easier-to-disassemble design, we’ve been compelled to adjust our repairability score from a promising 7 to a discouraging 4, highlighting Apple’s ongoing constriction of repair freedoms through its restrictive parts pairing system. To effectively repair these models, you have to procure parts within Apple’s sphere and validate the repairs. Without calibration, the parts either don’t work at all, or have compromised functionality and incessant warnings. iPhone 15 camera screw, top. Equivalent iPhone 14 screw, bottom. A Great Design Undermined by Parts Pairing

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You could use a large, flat sheet of sturdy cardboard instead. Lightly score it with a craft knife to divide it into four sections, then fold it into a box and tape together. Manufacturers tend to avoid titanium if at all possible, not just because it’s expensive but because it’s notoriously hard to work with.Still, it's really the same as just taking a photo and cropping it later. You aren’t getting true magnification, and there will always be a loss in image quality as you zoom in further. On the base iPhone 15 models, Apple is now performing microphone repairs in their service centers. This is enabled by increased modularity, where the microphone is now a separate component. Finally: USB-C Digital zoom, in its many guises, is just a fancy way of saying a photo is cropped to look like a zoomed image. Granted, digital zoom has come a long way. With high megapixel sensors, "binning" (multiple pixels treated as a single, large pixel), and better upscaling algorithms, manufacturers are getting better results. Over 40 years experience in the development and manufacturing of periscopes and armoured glass go into every product from GuS. A vacuum hot chamber used for sintering 3D printed parts. Combine this with a hydraulic press and you’ve got the idea. Photo: Centorr Vacuum Industries