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  • Toshiba is done with netbooks (in the US)

    Toshiba is done with netbooks (in the US)

    Earlier this year Toshiba introduced its first netbook with an Intel Atom N2600 Cedar Trail processor. But if ...

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  • VIA APC: A $49 Android computer with an ARM11 CPU

    VIA APC: A $49 Android computer with an ARM11 CPU

    VIA Technologies is entering Raspberry Pi territory with its latest product -- the APC. It's a $49 barebones ...

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  • $74 PC on a stick features Allwinner A10 CPU, Android 4.0

    $74 PC on a stick features Allwinner A10 CPU, Android 4.0

    The FXI Cotton Candy is getting a lot of attention as a PC on a stick that will ...

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  • AMD launches Trinity processors with an eye on “ultrathin” laptops

    AMD launches Trinity processors with an eye on ultrathin laptops

    AMD has launched its second-generation A-series line of processors aimed at a wide range of computers from desktops ...

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  • 10 Ultrabook deals for under $800

    10 Ultrabook deals for under $800

    Ultrabooks are thin and light laptops that use Intel processors and solid state disks (or solid state cache) ...

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  • How to root a Kindle Fire with Software Version 6.3.1

    How to root a Kindle Fire with Software Version 6.3.1

    Amazon released a minor software update for the Kindle Fire this week. It gives users a little more ...

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  • New kernel brings Netflix to Android 4.0 Kindle Fire

    New kernel brings Netflix to Android 4.0 Kindle Fire

    Kindle Fire owners have been hacking Amazon's $199 Android 2.3 tablet to install unofficial versions of Android 4.0 ...

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  • CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0.1 for the NOOK Tablet kills (some) bugs dead

    CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0.1 for the NOOK Tablet kills (some) bugs dead

    Just over a week after releasing the first build of Android 4.0 for the Barnes & Noble NOOK ...

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How to disassemble an Acer Iconia Tab A100 tablet

Acer Iconia A100 dissected

The Acer Iconia Tab A100 is a tablet with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, and support for Android 3.2 Honeycomb or Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Unfortunately some users have noticed that the tablet has a pretty lousy built-in microphone. So if you want to use the Iconia Tab A100…

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May 1st, 2012, 11:37 am by Brad Linder | No Comments »

Sony Smartwatch dissected, found not very hacker-friendly

sony smartwatch dissected

The Sony SmartWatch is a nifty $150 device that you can wear around your wrist and use as a companion for an Android smartphone. It pairs with your phone wirelessly and lets you access Twitter, email, music, weather, and other functions from your wrist. But when hacker Chris Wade took one apart he found it doesn’t actually run its own…

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April 19th, 2012, 5:30 pm by Brad Linder | No Comments »

Samsung dissects the Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE for your viewing pleasures

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE is a tablet with a 7 inch display and 4G LTE mobile broadband support. You probably figured that out from the name. But what the name doesn’t tell you is that the tablet also features a pretty stellar 1280 x 800 pixel Super AMOLED Plus display, and a 10 hour battery, measures 0.31 inches…

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April 5th, 2012, 4:30 pm by Brad Linder | No Comments »

HP TouchPad Go dissected for the FCC’s amusement

hp touchpad go fcc

The HP TouchPad Go is a 7 inch tablet which never made it to market. It was a casualty of HP’s decision to kill off its webOS hardware division last summer, just two months after introducing the HP TouchPad 10 inch tablet and watching it flop (only to see it sell like hotcakes once the price was lowered from $499…

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April 3rd, 2012, 9:53 pm by Brad Linder | 3 Comments

Vivaldi tablet with KDE Plasma Active dissected

Vivaldi tablet dissected

The Vivaldi tablet is a 7 inch tablet and open source KDE Plasma Active software. The €200 tablet is expected to start shipping in May, but the folks behind the official Vivaldi user forum at OpenTablets.org got their hands on an early unit — and they’ve ripped it apart to see what makes it tick. There aren’t any major surprises. After…

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March 25th, 2012, 9:43 am by Brad Linder | 2 Comments

Auraslate 1026 tablet dissected, proves hacker-friendly

auraslate 1026 tablet dissected

Auraslate is positioning it’s 7 and 10 inch Android tablets as hacker-friendly devices with open source software. In fact you even get a disc with the source code when you buy one of the company’s tablets. But just how easy is it for an independent developer to work with one of these tablets? Pretty easy, it turns out. AdamOutler posted a…

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March 21st, 2012, 4:45 pm by Brad Linder | 1 Comment

iFixit tears open the iPad 3 to see what makes it tick

iFixit iPad teardown

The new iPad goes on sale on March 16th… but it’s already March 16th in Australia. So the folks at iFixit picked up an Australian iPad today and promptly started to dissect it to see what the insides look like — and how difficult it would be to repair a broken iPad. The iFixit team has a long history of…

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March 15th, 2012, 12:47 pm by Brad Linder | 2 Comments

Asus Eee PC X101CH netbook teardown

Asus Eee PC X101CH teardown

The Asus Eee PC X101CH is probably one of the best new netbooks you can buy for $270 thanks to a Cedar Trail processor, fanless design, decent build quality and instant-on software. But the netbook has a few drawbacks for power users. For instance, it’s nearly impossible to upgrade the RAM. The Intel Atom N2600 processor used in the Eee…

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March 12th, 2012, 9:15 am by Brad Linder | 8 Comments

Nike FuelBand gets the FCC teardown treatment

Nike+ FuelBand

Nike recently introduced a wearable device called the Nike+ FuelBand which can track your fitness data throughout the day. It’s basically a tiny computer in a wristband with a handful of sensors and a very limited set of functions. One question that Nike didn’t really address when introducing the FuelBand last month was how it managed to cram the electronics…

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February 3rd, 2012, 4:30 pm by Brad Linder | 1 Comment

Motorola XYBOARD 8.2 inch tablet torn apart for the FCC

Motorola XYBOARD 8.2 FCC

The Motorola XYBOARD 8.2 tablet recently started shipping — but if you’re one of the first people to plunk down $400 or more for Motorola’s latest tablet, odds are you’re not exactly interested in ripping it to pieces to see what lies on the inside. Fortunately that’s where the FCC comes in. The XYBOARD 8.2 passed through Federal Communications website…

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February 1st, 2012, 11:36 am by Brad Linder | No Comments »

NOOK Tablet dissected, reveals big battery, lots of adhesive

NOOK Tablet dissected

The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet may be a shiny new 7 inch tablet with a dual core processor, but the tablet sure looks a lot like the 2010 NOOK Color. The new model uses the same case design as the original, but comes with more RAM, more storage, and a faster processor. But the folks at iFixit have discovered that…

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November 21st, 2011, 10:29 am by Brad Linder | 5 Comments

Amazon Kindle Fire dissected: It’s mostly battery

Amazon Kindle Fire dissected

The Amazon Kindle Fire is a 7 inch tablet with a 1024 x 600 pixel display, a 1 Ghz dual core CPU, and 8GB of storage. But you can find all that out by looking at the product listing on Amazon. The folks at iFixit had some slightly tougher-to-answer questions, like: what happens if you rip the things to shreds?…

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November 15th, 2011, 5:12 pm by Brad Linder | 4 Comments
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