hey guys I'm Gwendolyn gay and this is
the iFixit rundown where I give you all
the news that's happening this month at
iFixit here's what we've been up to on
our tear down table this month we got a
look inside the brand-new oneplus 2 and
our friends that creative electron came
back to help us out the oneplus 2 has a
ton of futuristic features including a
new USBC port a 13 megapixel rear facing
camera and a 64-bit snapdragon 810
processor with a 1.8 gigahertz octa-core
CPU but will it get a better repair
ability score than last year's model to
find out and see all our cool x-ray
photos check out the full teardown at
ifixit.com and if our teardown inspired
you to purchase your own oneplus two we
decided to put those x-rays to good use
and make a wallpaper of the inside of
the oneplus 2 for your oneplus 2 you can
find a link to a high-res version of the
image in the description below set it as
your wallpaper and voila now you can
view your oneplus 2 with x-ray vision we
also got the new Sony a7r 2 for our
teardown table and boy where are tools
busy the a7 r2 is Sony's second shot at
their mirrorless flagship camera and
this thing has no shortage of parts
including an electromagnet powered
steadyshot Image Stabilizer if you want
to see each and every one of those parts
head on over to ifixit.com set a
complete teardown in our store we just
added the repair business toolkit and
it's my new favorite things designed for
the repair business professional this
giant bundle of tools gets you
everything you need to get a repair
business off the ground and comes with a
steep discount over regular prices so
whether you have an established business
or starting something new or just need
the best tools for your electronics
needs this tool kit is for you you can
pick up one of your own at a fix-it comm
over at our blog we have a heartwarming
story of a grandson paying tribute to
his grandfather and his love of tools
Leigh John Phillips is an artist and
when his grandfather passed Phillips
bridges the art world with the tool
world with what he's calling the shed
project he is going to draw every item
and his grandfather shed a process that
he said might take him up to five years
and is documenting the progress on his
person
Instagram under the hashtag pet project
there's also a great feature on
fairphone if you don't know what
fairphone is get to know them they're
building an ethical cellphone ethically
sourced ethically produced and
incredibly repairable needless to say we
are in love with this concept check out
both stories at I fix it I have some
awesome fixer friends on Twitter and
they know just how much I love seeing
what's going on in their workshop
Simon Lindgren is one of my twitter
friends and he sent me a picture of his
latest repair project on its iPhone
six-plus he writes as I couldn't stand
being without my iPhone for ten days I
had to service it at home
big thanks to Gwendolyn Gay and my other
friend Alpha Mary eleven rights at
Quindlen gay just tonight I replaced my
iPhone 5s battery using your video
thanks No thank you guys
fixing the world one device at a time is
the coolest thing since mullets if you
want to be featured on our next rundown
or if you have a repair coming soon send
me a tweet and you might get a little
surprised help from my fix it we've had
some pretty cool visitors in our office
before but no one quite as cool as Jessa
Jones this micro soldering expert and
mom before took some time out of her
busy schedule to teach us a little bit
about micro soldering board level repair
is something we've never tackled before
here at iFixit and it's opened up a
world of possibilities we'll have a link
to the playlist containing every video
we have released this week in the
description below so make sure you take
the time to look at some of these
amazing repairs and that's your August
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