Apple doesnt want you messing around inside your own iPhone 4. Thats why all the newest ones are sealed up with oddball pentalobe screws. But now theres a $10 pentalobe screwdriver that solves that problem.
As soon as they heard the news of Apples tighter security on its iPhone 4, do-it-yourselfers were fretting that they could only gain entry into the device using an expensive screwdriver that was hard to find.
Thats when specialty toolmaker ifixit sprang into action, offering an iPhone 4 Liberation Kit! tha t can easily conquer the tamper-resistant pentalobe screws in short order. The kit includes a screwdriver that can remove those pesky pentalobes, and then ifixit helpfully adds conventional Philips screws and a screwdriver to install them in your iPhone 4.
According to the quick-reacting toolmakers at ifixit:
This screw head is new to us. In fact, there isnt a single reputable supplier that sells exactly the same screwdrivers Apples technicians usewhich is Apples point. They picked an obscure head that no one would have.
Ifixit said any new iPhone 4 is now shipping with these evil screws, adding that if you take your iPhone in for service, Apple will replace the current screws with these new, nearly impenetrable ones.
I wouldnt have any business rummaging around the interior of my iPhone 4, and dont really have any desire to. However, something doesnt quite sit right about not being able to look inside a device that I own. What do you think, readers?
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