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Launch recap: what is already on FixIndex, October 2026

The first public blog post, dated 31 October 2026. One recap of what is live or in preview on FixIndex. There is no older archive.

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Changelog

This is the first public post on the FixIndex blog. We opened the blog in late October 2026, and this page is dated 31 October 2026. There is no older archive, and no earlier post to scroll back to.

It is one recap of the site on that day: what is already live, and what is still a preview you open by link. Each section below is that same picture.

Phone pages, and whether a phone is worth it

Every phone we list has a page. The update date on it is the later of two sourced dates: the end the manufacturer has announced, or the EU label minimum (the day the phone was placed on the EU market, plus the years of updates on the label). If the manufacturer’s date is the earlier one, we still show it, and the date we count is the EU minimum. We do not guess a date.

Where that dated end exists, and we also have an EU repair class or an official part price, the “is it worth it?” page gives one answer:

  • Yes, for long-term use: 4 years or more left.
  • Yes, for a few years: 2 to 4 years left.
  • Only at a low price: under 2 years left.
  • Not as a main phone: security updates have ended.

Repair class and official part prices are listed for and against. They do not change the answer. If there is no dated end, we do not give a verdict.

Start from all phones, or open a model and follow the links under its name. A worked pair, in the other post from this same day, is iPhone 16 vs iPhone 15.

Official part prices, Apple first

Part prices are what the manufacturer publishes, not a repair-shop quote. For iPhones we use Apple’s Self Service Repair Store. The full kit price is the figure we show and use. Apple’s lower price, after you return the old part, is a second line.

Greece, Germany and Austria are stored separately. On an English phone page you pick the country. The lists are on official part prices and on each phone, for example the iPhone 16 and the iPhone 15.

Greek shop prices from Public and Kotsovolos

A phone hub can show a tracked shop price, with the day it was checked, once that price is in the daily export. The Greek phone-price feeds are Public and Kotsovolos, via Linkwise. A row from those feeds is a price for a phone. It is not a repair quote, and those shops are not listed as places to book a repair.

The export on the site today does not have those feeds marked as connected. Where a phone has no row, the hub says we are not tracking a price for it yet. We do not fill in a euro. The same rule is on the deal-integrity preview and in the method for shop prices.

Buying used, and comparing two phones

Before you pay for a second-hand phone, the buying-used guide walks through IMEI, locks, battery and parts history, with the official Apple, Samsung and Google pages. The checklist is the version you can tick off.

Compare phones puts two closely related models side by side: updates, the EU label and official part prices.

Rankings, and the Black Friday tracker

Rankings sort phones by software support, EU repairability, and the cheapest official battery and screen. They do not use shop prices. A price that includes VAT stays in a different table from a price that does not.

The Black Friday tracker is up for the 2026 sale. It asks the question in EU price law: is the sale price below the lowest price the same shop charged for the same offer in the previous 30 days? On the site, Black Friday is 27 November 2026. The export today has no shop-price feed connected, so the tracker is not showing prices or results yet. The rules are on is the discount real?.

Five tools are on every phone as a direct link. They are not in the phone’s menu, and we are not asking search engines to index them, until we are ready to. They are not the main pages of the site. If you try one, tell us what was unclear: hello@fixindex.eu.

The iPhone 16 is a convenient example:

  • Ownership timeline: release, updates and the battery’s rated cycles on one line.
  • Keep, sell or upgrade: one recommendation from the years of updates left, an official repair, and any sell quote we have actually recorded. Where a sample exists, it also shows a refurbished replacement (what a refurbished unit costs to buy, not cash in your hand) and a sell quote. For the iPhone 16 those samples are a refurbed.de listing and a Flip.gr quote. The conditions are on that page.
  • Battery health: how to read the percentage, the EU cycle rating, and the official battery price.
  • Deal integrity: whether a tracked shop price is under that offer’s own 30-day low. No tracked offers means no score.
  • eSIM and SIM: physical tray, eSIM and how two lines are set up, from the maker’s pages, including where a phone bought in the United States differs.

The same five paths exist on other phones. Change the model name in the address.

The affiliate disclosure names the programmes that are on: Public.gr, Kotsovolos and Anker, via Linkwise. A Linkwise link is marked with an asterisk. Links to iFixit do not carry a partner ID yet. This recap does not add a shop link. Charger links are in the USB-C charger note. A commission does not change a price, a ranking or a verdict.

The privacy notice says what we collect. We do not set our own cookies. Cloudflare Web Analytics, from our host, is described there.

What is next

More comparisons. The weekly price digest is the form at the bottom of this page. Through the Black Friday season, the tracker is the place to check a percentage against that shop’s own recent price, as soon as those daily prices are in the export. We are not setting a date for anything else.

How shop links work: Affiliate disclosure.