There comes a time when you have to upgrade your devices. Apple has added all iPad 2 models and variants to its vintage and obsolete products list. Apple defines vintage products as those that have not been manufactured for more than five but less than seven years. Devices on the list are no longer be […]
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Once again, the cool cats at iFixit have torn down the new iPad mini and posted a full report of their findings. The iPad mini 5 has been dissected, the 7.9-inch tablet looking nearly identical to its iPad mini 4 predecessor, the only external differences being the new “A2133” model number on the back, as […]
The good news is that the cool cats at iFixit recent completed and posted a teardown of Apple’s AirPods 2 headphones to gauge how repairable they were. The bad news is that they’re at the low end of repairability among Apple’s products. Per the report: “Let’s get the second of those points out of the […]
After reports surfaced last year of bent iPad Pro devices, it appears that the bending issue can not only damage the tablet’s logic board, but might not fall under the criteria for warranty-baed repairs at the Apple Store. The iPad Pro, which has an Apple-defined 300 to 400 micro range of deviation, could fail to […]
There are times when a battery catastrophically fails within a product. This apparently occurred for Josh Hillard, an Ohio-based iPhone XS Max owner, whose handset reportedly caught fire and exploded on December 12th. Hillard, who reported that around 3 PM of that day, he noticed a smell and felt a “large amount of heat” and […]