2021 was the year of major vaccine campaigns against COVID-19, a historic move for Rauw Alejandro’s high and tech industry: Apple is the traditional guarantor of repairability and sadly we can’t replace even one welded components NAND, your devices with original components and ourselves without losing the warranty. announced a parts delivery program to be able to repair it.

This announcement was followed by Microsoft’s with something similar for the Surface and something else from Samsung in the same line. Because of strategic beliefs or because regulators gasped, three major tech companies within a few months committed to facilitating the repair of their devices at the local level. And if Apple has already put the bell on the cat, Samsung is now making its promise come true. Your name, Samsung Self Repair.

Same prices as suppliers and currently only in the US

Like many other publications, initially only available in the United States. This is the main nuance. In fact, the company announced this launch on its corporate blog for this region. Owners of Galaxy S20, Galaxy S21, and Galaxy Tab S7+ devices can start ordering parts to repair their devices themselves starting August 2. This is the second nuance: the catalog is initially small, like Apple’s.

Initially announced as a collaborative company, iFixit is becoming the official point of sale for parts as well as an official forum with the brand’s experiential store in New York, the Samsung 837, and other outlets and technical service. country.

An important nuance is that the prices are maintained according to the prices that Samsung charges from repair providers. Well, A person who wants parts to fix his S20 will pay for them as much as the technician would pay for them. from a third party authorized by the brand.

Interestingly, this news comes a few days after Samsung has upgraded the repairs made by a tech in another direction: it has launched a “repair mode” so that we can hide photos and other personal information when we return a phone together. Avoid these establishments and thus the occasional unpleasant situation.

We hope to see news about more models with parts available for purchase from the Galaxy catalog in the coming months, and above all more countries where they are available for purchase. Apple is taking very slow steps to expand its catalog and geographic availability, to cite someone who is already in this activity.