Gear News of the Week: The iPhone Air Is Surprisingly Repairable, and Gemini Comes to Google TV
Julian Chokkattu
created: Sept. 27, 2025, 10:30 a.m. | updated: Sept. 30, 2025, 4:41 p.m.
The phone also uses electrically debonding adhesive, first debuted on the iPhone 16, to make swapping batteries simple.
The iPhone 17 Pro models also scored a 7/10 repair score, though iFixit notes that the Air is certainly easier to work with.
The screwed-in battery of the Pro models is similarly easy to replace; however, due to the phone's redesign, these models lack dual-entry access.
Gemini Arrives on Google TVCourtesy of GoogleGoogle has announced that its Gemini AI assistant is coming to a number of Google TV devices, elevating the depth of onscreen search functionality for all users.
Folks who know Google TV know that it already had pretty capable voice search functionality, but that gets much better with the addition of Gemini.
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