{"id":43,"date":"2026-10-29T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preview.unitedtheme.com\/newspulse-plus\/2026\/10\/29\/your-next-phone-may-be-built-to-be-repaired\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:20:00","slug":"your-next-phone-may-be-built-to-be-repaired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.unitedtheme.com\/newspulse-plus\/2026\/10\/29\/your-next-phone-may-be-built-to-be-repaired\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Next Phone May Be Built to Be Repaired"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For most of the last decade, smartphones got thinner, sleeker and harder to open. Batteries were glued in, screens were fused to frames and replacing a single part often meant replacing the whole phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That trend is starting to reverse. New rules in several markets require manufacturers to make spare parts and repair manuals available for years after a model launches, and some brands are now treating repairability as a feature worth advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s changing inside the phone<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Expect to see more phones held together with standard screws rather than adhesive, batteries that can be removed with a pull tab, and modular parts such as charging ports and cameras that can be swapped independently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What it means for owners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Cheaper fixes:<\/strong> independent repair shops can get genuine parts more easily.<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Longer life:<\/strong> a new battery after three years can make an old phone feel new again.<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Better resale value:<\/strong> phones that can be refurbished keep their value longer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The trade-offs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Engineers say making phones easier to open can make them slightly thicker or less water-resistant, although clever design is narrowing that gap. And repairability only helps if software updates keep coming, so look for brands that promise long support periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next time you shop for a phone, it might be worth asking not just how fast it is, but how easy it will be to fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swappable batteries, screws instead of glue and spare parts you can actually buy: repairability is becoming a selling point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30,21,29],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-gadgets","tag-repair","tag-smartphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.unitedtheme.com\/newspulse-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.unitedtheme.com\/newspulse-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.unitedtheme.com\/newspulse-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.unitedtheme.com\/newspulse-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.unitedtheme.com\/newspulse-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preview.unitedtheme.com\/newspulse-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.unitedtheme.com\/newspulse-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.unitedtheme.com\/newspulse-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.unitedtheme.com\/newspulse-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.unitedtheme.com\/newspulse-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}