Samsung 'Self-Repair' Program Adds Galaxy S22 Phones, Some Galaxy Books - PCMag

DIY-minded Samsung owners present person officially supported options to repair much smartphones and, for the archetypal time, laptops from that firm.

The institution announced Tuesday(Opens successful a caller window) that its Self-Repair programme present covers Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+, Galaxy S22 Ultra phones arsenic good arsenic Galaxy Book Pro 15-inch(Opens successful a caller window) and Galaxy Book Pro 360 (15-inch) laptops.

Samsung says S22-series owners volition beryllium capable to bargain kits to swap retired “display assemblies, backmost glass, and charging ports.” For the 2 Galaxy Book laptops, some introduced successful 2021, the parts paper covers “the lawsuit front, lawsuit rear, display, battery, touchpad, powerfulness cardinal with fingerprint reader, and rubber foot.”

Samsung’s collaboration with the device-repair hub iFixit(Opens successful a caller window) began past twelvemonth erstwhile it opened a storefront determination successful August with parts for Galaxy S20-series and S21-series phones and the Galaxy Tab S7 Plus tablet.

Google launched its ain iFixit collaboration past twelvemonth for Pixel parts, which I took vantage of to replace the surface I’d cracked connected my Pixel 5a telephone astatine considerably little disbursal (the surface repair kit sells for $99.99) than an in-store repair would person cost. 

Apple got up of some of those firms by announcing its ain “Self-Service Repair” programme successful November 2021, opening an iPhone-repair storefront last April, and expanding it to M1 MacBooks successful August. That tract present besides stocks parts for immoderate Mac mini and iMac desktops arsenic good arsenic the Mac Studio. 

Owners of each of those computers and galore others person agelong been capable to bargain third-party repair kits astatine iFixit and different shops, but their unofficial quality puts them into warranty-voiding scope and successful immoderate cases has come astatine a outgo successful functionality(Opens successful a caller window) erstwhile a device’s bundle rejects the transplant. 

“Right to repair” advocates person pushed for authorities requiring manufacturers to supply parts and documentation for autarkic fixes, which resulted successful the transition of a constricted measure successful New York astatine the extremity of 2022.