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Apple appears to have given up some of its profit margin due to competition from rivals judging from a teardown of the top-end iPhone 13 Max Pro, the Japanese news agency Nikkei says, following an exercise it undertook along with the Financial Times.

iFixit has completed a teardown of the Samsung Galaxy S8/+ and notes that the battery voltage, capacity, and design tolerances, and even the manufacturer, are virtually identical to the Note7 which was recalled due to battery issues.

Apple’s new AirPods, its Bluetooth answer to no headphone jack, have scored zero out of 10 on the repairability scale – no repair or battery replacement is possible.

Microsoft has released its take on the all-in-one desktop — the Surface Studio — and also added in a left field item called a Surface Dial that may become indispensable to any Surface touch device.

It is actually Microsoft’s first desktop PC – and its take is to put a very large 28” tablet mounted on an amazing zero-gravity stand, and smart base. A tabtop!

Apple’s new 13” and 15” MacBook Pros sport a Touch Bar – a multi-touch enabled strip of “glass” built into the keyboard that replaces the traditional function keys and taskbar. It adds a touch control to a non-touch screen.

Video games consoles have been receiving mid-life Viagra boosters to support 4K TV, HDR and VR headsets. The latest is the Sony PS4 Pro.

Pixel is designed and made by Google (HTC assembled it) so what is Google’s first smartphone hardware foray like under the skin?

IFIXIT sent a team to Japan to bring readers early teardowns of the new Apple iPhone 7, 7 Plus and Watch 2. In particular, the water resistance is being put to the test via a YouTube live stream.

IFixit has completed its “teardown” of the Samsung Galaxy Note7 and its conclusion is that the technology of the device exceeds even Samsung’s traditional “marketing hype”.

The new Xbox One S reveals some unexpected goodies, according to a teardown by iFixit.

Google’s Pixel C Android tablet did not make the splash it expected when launched in September 2015. It has been repriced and relaunched as an Android N developer machine. Sorry stocks sold out fast.

Our friends at i-Wreckit, sorry iFixit, have torn down a ‘very iPhone-like’ Huawei P9 flagship. Their take - ‘Huawei has been dominant in the Chinese market for years, and with ever increasing design and quality improvements, they're sprouting interest all over the world. Is Huawei becoming the global future of cell phones?’

LG’s new G5 may well be the most repairable, and one of the more desirable, Android smartphones in 2016.

iFixit have completed a teardown of the latest 4” iPhone SE. The conclusion is that ‘everything old is new again’.

Our friends at iFixit – or should that be iWreck-it – have become quite famous for their teardowns of perfectly good, functional products. Although they claim to have dismantled and re-mantled) and give the Oculus Rift a 7 out of 10 for reparability.

The pursuit of waterproofing has resulted in a handset that rates 3 out of 10 for repairability.