CALIFORNIA: The Nexus 6, Google’s new flagship smartphone, earns a decent score for refurbish ability.
The Nexus 6, release earlier this month, features a 5.96 inch screen and is develop through a partnership with Motorola. It runs the latest Google mobile operating system, Android 5.o Lollipop. It’s available in 32GB and 64GB versions and starts at $649 for an unlocked version.
iFixit, a company that sells repair tools for mobile devices and analyzes the difficulty of repair.
iFixit said that if any of those parts fail people should not have much trouble replacing cameras, buttons, or even the headphone jack. It avoids the use of clips the lack of which lessens the chance of damage during repair and does use a single kind of screw, which makes repair easier.
Qualcomm also handles the device’s modem and power management. SanDisk provides the 32GB of flash storage. Once iFixit broke open the Nexus 6, the company found components from an array of makers, including SK Hynix, which makes the device’s 3GB of onboard RAM, and Qualcomm.
Google did not directly respond to a request for comment on the breakdown.
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