After many delays, the Essential Phone has finally started shipping. If so far you’ve been on the fence about buying one, here’s a new detail that may or may not help inform your decision. The Essential Phone is almost impossible to repair. This has been revealed by iFixit through a thorough teardown of the device.
The Essential Phone scores 1 out of 10 on iFixit’s repairability scale, where 10 means easiest to repair. As you may know, the handset is made from premium materials – the frame is titanium, the back plate is ceramic.
The use of such exotic materials may be to blame for…