YouTuber JerryRigEverything has put out a new video. You’ve probably heard of him as he was recently covered all over the smartphone blogs for his Nexus 6P bend test videos.

Anyway, a video of his went live today tearing down the Blackberry Priv. The battery and screen replacements are quite easy to perform. As with any other repair, we don’t recommend you try this if you don’t know what you’re doing.

While we are shown that the battery is easily replaceable, the bigger and better news is that the screen is just as easy to repair, all without even having to disassemble the phone. The YouTuber heated up the edges of the screen and used a business card to break the adhesive all the way around.

The display completely comes off (digitizer and panel assembly) once a ribbon cable near the center of the panel is disconnected. Then, all you need to do is reheat the adhesive (or apply new adhesive), reconnect the ribbon cable, and snap the display back into place. All without having to remove the rear panels, motherboards or other components from the body of the phone.

We can’t wait until the iFixIt team gets its hands on the new Android-powered Blackberry handset and gives it the teardown treatment and repairability…

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BestBuy.com is offering the same Cyber Monday sale as the Google Store: $80 off the 16GB Nexus 5X. When I checked Best Buy’s website, it showed availability in-store for the NYC area of the Nexus 5X on December 5.

The Nexus 5X is currently only available in 16GB black and white configurations on Best Buy’s website. Presently, the 32GB models are no longer in stock online. The icy minty color will only be available in a 16GB option.

This is a great chance for customers to put the Nexus 5X on their Best Buy store cards. Best buy offers 6 month no-interest financing on purchases more than $199. Also you have the option to buy Best Buy’s own Geek Squad Protection plan.

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In the rumor mill for two years, with a probability of near zero for the better part thereof, the iPad Pro was made official in September and is shipping worldwide as we speak. Guess we already know what’s been going on under the surface but the bottom line is Apple lets you decide about the optional pencil and keyboard.

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If you are ready to switch to T-Mobile or if you are an existing T-Mobile customer, now is a great time to switch to the latest iPhone models. T-Mobile is offering the 64GB iPhone 6S or 6S Plus for a full $100 off of the retail price. You can get the 128GB model for the price you’d pay monthly for a 64GB model.

The catch for the deal is that a $100 or $200 down-payment is due today, however, you will be reimbursed $100 in 6 – 8 weeks via a prepaid Visa card in the mail. So, essentially, you still pay the monthly price of memory one step below.

To break it down:

6S 16GB = $649.99
6S 64GB = $649.99 – $100 down, rebate Visa prepaid card for $100
6S 128GB = $749.99 – $200 down, rebate Visa prepaid card for $100

6S Plus 16GB = $749.99
6S Plus 64GB = $749.99 – $100 down, rebate Visa prepaid card for $100
6S Plus 128 GB = $849.99 – $200 down, rebate Visa prepaid card for $100

This offer is only available online or over the phone. As of 3PM EST, the Silver and Rose Gold 6S 64GB configurations are backordered.

For 6S Plus, the Rose Gold and Space Gray 128GB 6S Plus are backordered, and the Silver and Gold 64GB 6S Plus are backordered as well.

You can still call customer service and do the order over the phone, just keep your fingers crossed that you’ll receive the phone before the…

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The Galaxy S6 has been criticized for only offering about 23GB of usable free space on the 32GB model. Some people will want to opt for a higher capacity phone in order to make do without a micro SD card slot.

The problem herein lies with those on AT&T who wish to purchase a Galaxy S6 Active. Until recently, the Active only came in 32GB for all color configurations. Now however AT&T is now offering a larger 64GB memory option for those who wish to purchase a Galaxy S6 Active. It is still unknown if Samsung plans to release the Active variant of the phone outside of the US, though

It is a little disappointing that this decision was made so late in the life of the S6’s product cycle. The Galaxy S7’s rumored release is already around the corner and slated for a Q1 2016 launch and even though the rugged version typically comes out a few month later we still wish we had 64GB from the…

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According to Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR & Co., the Apple Watch is on track to reach 6 million sales in the last quarter of this year. If true, this means that total sales of the wearable for 2015 will reach 12 million.

That’s not bad at all, especially when you compare how the Apple Watch has been doing with the original iPad. Apple sold 3 million of those in the first 80 days, but the company has revealed that the smartwatch outsold it throughout the first nine weeks of availability.

The aforementioned analyst says his information comes from checks with Apple retail stores, which were performed last Friday. Apple itself still hasn’t said anything about exactly how many watches it’s sold, which is why we need to rely on such predictions made by analysts to get even the vaguest idea of how well the wearable is doing.

While not being anywhere near as important to Apple as the iPhone, the smartwatch is dominating the nascent wearable market, and it’s also a bet for the future, when such devices will hopefully become even more useful – and get better battery…

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At the beginning of November we spotted a new Oppo smartphone getting certified by TENAA, China’s equivalent of the FCC. It was called A53, and we assumed it would get official soon after that. And now it has been listed on Oppo’s Chinese website.

The A53 is a mid-range handset – like most of what Oppo has produced recently. The company has focused a lot on such offerings lately, for whatever reason.

Perhaps the main claim to fame for the Oppo A53 is its metal build. It also comes with 2.5D curved glass on the front.

Spec-wise, we’re looking at a 5.5-inch 720p touchscreen, a 13 MP rear camera with LED flash, a 5 MP selfie snapper, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 616 SoC at the helm (with a 1.5 GHz octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU), 2GB of RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, 4G LTE, dual-SIM functionality, and a 3,075 mAh battery. It runs Android 5.1 Lollipop underneath Oppo’s own Color OS 2.1 layer.

Pricing information hasn’t been outed yet, nor has an actual release date for this model. And it’s unclear if Oppo plans on offering it to markets outside of China as well.

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If you are eyeballing a new, shiny iPad Pro, then chances are you have already prepared yourself to part with a substantial amount of cash. We doubt that any sale will make the 12.9 inch Cupertino monster a bargain any time soon, but it can still save you enough to make the Pencil or the keyboard effectively free.

Target is offering a 15% site-wide discount today and weather by chance or not, the iPad Pro isn’t excluded. That brings the price tag of the iOS tablet to the lowest point we have seen yet: $679.15 for the 32GB version, $806.65 and $917.15 for the 128GB without and with Cellular connection, respectively. REDcard holders are even entitled to an extra 5% off.

MacMall is also offering a discount, however, it is only about $12. Still, unlike Apple, they accept PayPal and only collect a sales tax in CA, NY, IL, WI, MN, CO, TN, NC and GA, so quite a bit of saving can actually be had there.

The price tag is definitely eye-watering, but the iPad is really packing impressive hardware. It has a big 12.9″ display with 2732 x 2048 pixel resolution and a brand new A9x chip – officially Cupertino’s most powerful mobile chip to date. Four speakers are also on board, as well as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi ac and optional LTE Cat.4 support. There is a Touch ID sensor as well.

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Nearly six months after the Gionee Marathon M5 was unveiled, a Plus variant of the smartphone will be made official. According to a teaser (shown below) posted by the Chinese smartphone manufacturer, the unveiling is set for December 21 in the country.

Unfortunately, apart from the name and the date of unveiling, nothing else is known about this new variant at this point in time. So, it’s currently difficult to say how exactly it will be different from the M5, which is was recently launched outside China.

For those who aren’t already aware, the Marathon M5 is powered by a MediaTek MT6735 SoC with quad-core 1.5GHz CPU, and sports a 5.5 inch (720 x 1280 pixel resolution) AMOLED display. Its selling point is the fact that it includes two 3,010mAh batteries providing a total capacity of…

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And the long wait is over – the vivo X6 and vivo X6Plus are official, coming with lovely metal bodies and AMOLED displays. They have 5.2″ and 5.7″ screens as is the current norm of phone and phablet as a flagship duo.

vivo X6Plus

Measuring a slender 6.6mm, the vivo X6Plus comes in Silver, Gold and Rose Gold color options. The 5.7″ Super AMOLED display has 1080p resolution making for an okay 386ppi pixel density. The software is based on Android 5.1 Lollipop, but has been heavily customized into “Funtouch OS.”

The vivo X6Plus impresses with 4GB of RAM, though its chipset is fairly standard, a MediaTek MT6752. It has eight Cortex-A53 cores at 1.7GHz and a dual-core Mali-T760. Like the RAM, the internal storage is generous – 64GB out of the box, with an option to add more.

Both vivos are dual-SIM phones, but the second SIM slot can accept a microSD instead. This gives you an option of dual-SIM or extra storage (but not both at the same time).

Anyways, the phone is secured with a fingerprint reader on the back, which works in any orientation and needs a mere 0.4 seconds to unlock the screen.

The camera department features a 13MP sensor with phase detection autofocus and an f/2.2 aperture. There’s also an 8MP selfie camera. The camera launches in 0.6s and locks focus in 0.2s.

For audio the phone uses a Yamaha Hi-Fi chip and dedicated amp. It also boasts a 3,000mAh battery with fast-charging tech over a microUSB cable.

The vivo X6Plus is launching in China on December 7 with a price of CNY 3,200 (around $500/€475). There will be a China Unicom version too that will be slightly cheaper at CNY 3,000.

vivo X6

The vivo X6 has a 5.2″ Super AMOLED screen with 1080p resolution (that’s 424ppi). It’s not all that compact at 147.9 x 73.8 x 6.6mm. That’s a full centimeter taller than the LG G2 (which too has a 5.2″ scree), a bit wider too. It decently light at 135.5g though.

The X6 is powered by the same chipset, complete with 4GB of RAM, though the storage has been reduced to 32GB. That’s still pretty generous and you do get the same dual-SIM/single+microSD option.

The metal body of the phone is made out of an anodized aluminum-magnesium alloy that’s milled in 57 steps. Nano injection molding, hand polishing and laser engraving are needed to complete the manufacturing process.

A dual-antenna ensures better reception for the 4G LTE modem. There’s also Wi-Fi 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.0.

Besides the screen, the X6 also has a smaller battery, a 2,400mAh one. It still has the fingerprint reader on its back and the 13MP back plus 8MP front camera setup.

The vivo X6 will start at CNY 2,600 ($390/€385) and a China Unicom version for CNY 2,500. It too is launching on December 7.

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