Category: Brain Candy

If you’re tired of eating your internet vegetables, we’re here to give you something fun to read. Just don’t blame us if you accidentally learn something anyway.

How Tech Works

What Is mAh and Why Is It Bad for Measuring Battery Capacity?

tl;dr: If you’re comparing smartphone batteries, the mAh values will usually work. Otherwise, look for a battery’s watt-hour (Wh) value to get a more universal capacity rating. This is the…

September 19, 2024

by Arthur Shi - iFixit

How Tech Works

Why Is Your Old Phone Battery Swollen?

Tell me if this sounds familiar: You just got a shiny new phone! Your old phone still works, so you chuck it in a drawer as “backup” and promptly forget…

August 1, 2024

by Arthur Shi - iFixit

Product Design

How Teenage Engineering Designed a Barcelona Factory to Build Its New K.O. II Sampler

Teenage Engineering’s new K.O. II sampler is like a grown-up version of its Pocket Operator series, crossed with a 1970s/80s-era calculator. It’s getting musicians so excited that it sold out…

January 22, 2024

by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit

Brain Candy

Anodizing the iPhone 15 Pro

Apple has used aluminum and stainless steel phone frames since the iPhone 2G’s introduction in 2007. However, last year’s iPhone 15 Pro got something new. A lightweight metal used in…

January 19, 2024

by Chayton Ritter - iFixit

Wallpapers

iPhone 14 Teardown Wallpapers

Check out the secrets behind these gorgeous wallpapers in our (now complete) iPhone 14 teardown. Trust us, someone’s gonna ask you what all the components are on your sweet new…

September 19, 2022

by Sam Goldheart - iFixit

Skills

Here Are the Three Repairs You’ll Need to Know in College

You’re off to school, and maybe you’re leaving home for the first time. If you’re lucky, your parents have loaded you up with the tech you’ll need to get through…

August 25, 2022

by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit

Brain Candy

Five Strategies for Finding Out-of-Stock Parts

Try as we might, iFixit can’t sell every part for every device that needs fixing, whether due to price, demand, logistics, or some mix of all three. So we sometimes…

February 8, 2022

by Kevin Purdy

Teardowns

Teardown Skills: How to Read a Tech X-Ray

You may have noticed we have a fair number of device X-rays on our site lately. Be it wallpapers, teardown photos, or just quick tweets, Creative Electron has been providing…

December 10, 2020

by Sam Goldheart - iFixit

Wallpapers

Teardown Wallpapers: iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max

It’s everyone’s favorite time of the year: new iPhone teardown wallpapers season! Of course that means we have the relevant teardowns, too, but if you’re just here for the goods,…

November 20, 2020

by Sam Goldheart - iFixit

Brain Candy

Five Weird Ways Old Games Tried to Prevent Copying

These days, seeing software-based copy protection on something you “bought” doesn’t come as a shock. DRM, or Digital Rights Management, stops you making copies or backups of your Kindle books,…

June 25, 2020

by Charlie Sorrel - iFixit