Samsung phones were ranked better than Apple for home repair
Repairability can be one of the important components in buying a mobile phone. Now, a new study of the time required to repair phones at home and the complexity of step-by-step repair guides on the Internet shows that 2022 Samsung phones were, on average, among the easiest products to repair at home.
According to the website Electronics HubCheck Average repair time And the difficulty level of the tutorials for repairing different devices on websites like iFixit shows which phones are the easiest and which ones are the hardest to repair at home.
According to this study, Galaxy S22 Ultra The third easy-to-repair phone is lower than Galaxy A40 And Moto G7 can be seen The average time per repair for the Galaxy A40 is around 32.6 minutes, and 42.9% of repairs are considered easy. This time for the Galaxy S22 Ultra 48.1 minutes announced and 33.3 percent Repairs can be done easily.
On the other hand, the most difficult phone to repair at home Google Pixel 7 is that each repair is on average to 60.3 minutes It takes time. In the second place of the name Galaxy Note 10 It can be seen that the average time 58.4 minutes Is. Additionally, the repair guides for both phones are described as difficult to follow.
Galaxy A53 And Galaxy A72 Even though they have a lower average repair time than the Galaxy S22 Ultra, their repair tutorials seem hard to follow.
Ranking the easiest and hardest brands to repair at home
This report concludes that among the phones that have been released in recent years, the brand Asus, HTC, LG and then Samsung They have the easiest products to repair at home. In the next rank of name Apple And so on Motorola And Google are seen
On that side, the most difficult phones to repair at home by Sony, Xiaomi, Huawei, OnePlus And Honor have been built.
Although this list does not mention the products of 2023, it is not far from the mind that Samsung will be in a higher position than its main competitors this year. By changing the design of the battery in the Galaxy S23 series, this company has now allowed replacing this part much easier.