The number of options has increased considerably in the smartphone market, which has been accelerating day by day. Samsung, Apple, Xiaomi, Huawei and many more are working hard to get a bigger share of the cake and are offering a new model to users every day. So, aside from their designs and technical features, what are the world’s hardest and easiest-to-repair smartphones? Here are the details!
The world’s hardest-to-repair smartphones
According to a study by Electronics Hub, Samsung has come out on top as the most repair-friendly smartphone brand in 2022, surpassing Apple by a large margin. The research takes into account data collected from iFixit to determine which smartphones are easiest and most difficult to repair at home, based on average repair times and difficulty of repair manual instructions available online.
Samsung’s Galaxy phones released in 2022 proved to be the easiest to repair; In terms of ease of DIY repair, the Galaxy S22 Ultra ranked third after the Galaxy A40 (2019) and the Moto G7, which were released in the same year. The second-ranked Galaxy A40 has an average of 32.6 minutes per repair, with 42.9 percent of its repairs considered easy. The average repair time of the Galaxy S22 Ultra is 48.1 minutes, and a remarkable 33.3 percent of these repairs are easily performed.
Other than that, the hardest-to-repair smartphone was the Google Pixel 7 (2022). After the smartphone with an average repair time of 60.3 minutes, the Galaxy Note 10 model takes the second place with an average repair time of 58.4 minutes. In the third place of the list, we come across the 3rd generation iPhone SE. These phones were labeled as not suitable for DIY repair in the relevant research, due to repair times and difficult-to-follow repair instructions.
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