CableMod is a brand new company that specializes in producing high-end sleeved cable kits for popular PSU brands and models.  It currently produces cable kits for popular Corsair, EVGA(G2,P2), and Seasonic power supplies that incorporate a fully modular design.

The custom cables are made with ModFlex sleeving, which is a premium cable sleeving that is much higher quality than standard sleeving.  ModFlex is made with ultra-fine fibers  with a very dense weave that are much softer than typical nylon sleeving, which makes it much more supple and able to route throughout the case much easier.  For years you likely have seen modders with custom builds that have had painstakingly modded PSU cables that have been individually sleeved.  In these cases the sleeving had been secured with heatshrink tubing, which is something that you won’t find on the CableMod cables.  The cables are completely heat shrink free, giving these cables a very clean look that modders will no doubt love.  The cable kits are available in many of the most popular colors and two color combinations.  The solid colors are black, red, blue, green, orange, and white.  The combo colors are black and red, black and blue, black and green, and black and orange.  It is nice to see this segment of the hardware industry finally filled since there has been a demand for such products for a long time now and CableMod will surely do well with being the first one on the scene.

There are three different cable series that CableMod makes, each for a different brands of fully modular power supplies.  The C-Series is made for Corsair with the compatible models being in the AXi, HXi, and RM series.  The E-Series is made for EVGA with the compatible models being G2 and P2 series.  Lastly the SE-Series is made for Seasonic power supplies in its XP2 and KM3 series.

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iFixit recently tore down Amazon’s supposedly wildly innovative phone. However, they actually had quite a hard time tearing it down. The only phone that beats the Amazon Fire Phone in terms of unrepairability is the HTC One M8. That phone scored a lowly 2 in terms of repairability, but even so, Samsung’s lowest scoring phone (The Galaxy S5) still managed a score of a 5. Repairability will determine how expensive repairs for your phone will cost and whether or not you can do them yourself. On certain phones, some components are simply too bonded together or impossible to take apart and as a result, get pretty poor scores.

Even though the Amazon Fire Phone isn’t necessarily that technologically unique of a phone, Amazon has managed to make it almost as unrepairable as HTC’s. However, HTC’s phones are not as hyped as Amazon’s in terms of features and unique features. Some of these features, however, are partially attributing to the phone’s unrepairability score.

As iFixit states, the four dynamic perspective cameras are actually encased in glue, which means that any sort of replacement of them will require heat and cutting. In addition to this, a replacement display would likely need to include those four cameras, which would make replacing the display outrageously expensive. If the cameras are not replaced, but rather transferred, the amount of work to do so will also be expensive and tedious. They also say that the plethora of cables and connectors make disassembly tedious and reassembly difficult. iFixit also says that the Amazon Fire Phone is not modular and as a result many components share the same cables, which increases the cost of replacement parts.

Now, repairability may not be a factor for everyone buying a phone, but it is worth noting or at least knowing when buying the phone. The Amazon Fire Phone will likely fail, as we had suspected it would primarily because most of its features are gimmicky or encourage Amazon product consumption, without anything in return. Amazon’s pricing and placement of this phone (AT&T) are ultimately going to be what dooms it, until they drop the price. I don’t particularly see them being very successful with it unless its free on contract. And even then, the likelihood that someone would go with this phone over an HTC One M8, Samsung Galaxy S5 or LG G3 is very small.

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