The next major version of Android isn’t due out until this fall, but now that Google has released factory images for the Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 as well as a software developer kit, it’s possible to try it out. That’s great news for developers… but casual users might want to wait a while. Android […]
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Lilbits (6-23-2014): Get a $650 credit to trade a MacBook Air for a Surface Pro 3
Microsoft says its latest tablet can replace a notebook. Now the company’s putting its money where its mouth is by offering shoppers up to $650 in credit when they trade in select MacBook Air models for a Surface Pro 3 tablet. As WinBeta notes, you’ll need a working device, you’ll have to take it into […]
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Lilbits (4-04-2014): Inside the Fire TV, Cyanogen’s new image
Amazon already told us that it’s new TV box has a Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, and 8GB of storage along with the ability to stream music and videos, play games, and run other apps. But that’s not good enough for the folks at repair shop iFixit — they want to see all those […]
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Apple’s Macintosh turns 30, gets iFixit teardown in celebration
If you had a personal computer before 1984, odds are it had a green display and the closest thing to a user interface were the lines of text you could input and read with a keyboard. While Apple didn’t invent the idea of a graphical user interface (we have Xerox to thank for that), Apple’s […]
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Lilbits (11-05-2013): Another peek inside the Google Nexus 5
Another high profile device, another teardown from iFixit. The repair shop has ripped open a Google Nexus 5 to get a look at its insides. They liked what they saw, deeming the Nexus 5 relatively easy to repair — but let’s be honest. the odds of you fixing the $350 phone yourself instead of buying […]
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iPad Air is now available for $499, here’s what its insides look like
Apple’s new thinner, lighter, faster iPad is now available for purchase. The iPad Air is on sale in the US for $499 and up, and as of November 1st it should be available in 42 countries around the globe. Update: Make that $479 and up. That’s how much Walmart is charging. The new tablet has […]
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Lilbits (10-25-2013): T-Mobile offers free mobile hotspot
A few years ago Google added the ability to use Android phones as mobile hotspots — and wireless carriers pretty quickly started charging customers extra to use that feature. The move seemed a bit odd to some, since carriers weren’t giving users any more data to use during a given month, they were just charging for […]
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iFixit tears apart Amazon’s $139 Kindle Fire HD, finds tablet parts inside
Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HD is a 7 inch tablet with a 1280 x 800 pixel display. a 1.5 GHz TI OMAP 4 dual-core processor, and the same basic specs as last year’s model. It’s not exactly a state of the art tablet, but with prices starting at $139, it’s pretty cheap. The folks at […]
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NVIDIA Shield dissected, enormous battery discovered
NVIDIA’s $299 handheld gaming console is now shipping, and as NVIDIA’s first entry into the consumer device space, it’s generating a bit of buzz… and uncertainty. One thing that is certain though, is that if you take apart the NVIDIA Shield, you can get a better idea of what makes the device tick. So that’s […]
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Google Chromecast dissected, not much found inside
Google’s Chromecast is a tiny $35 device designed to let you stream videos from the internet to your TV. It’s running a modified version of Chrome OS, but you’d never really know that to look at it — there’s virtually no user interface. Instead, when you fire up a video on your phone, tablet, or […]
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New MacBook Air, Google Glass get the teardown treatment: Huge, tiny batteries uncovered
2 Comments on New MacBook Air, Google Glass get the teardown treatment: Huge, tiny batteries uncoveredTwo new high-profile portable computing devices went under the knife this week. The folks at repair shop and community iFixit tore apart Apple’s newest 13 inch MacBook Air with a Haswell processor, while Star Simpson and Scott Torborg dissected a Google Glass device and snapped some stellar photographs of the process. Not surprisingly, the insides […]
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Lilbits (5-08-2013): Ouya game console tear-down, Marvel Unlimited comes to Android
The folks at iFixit may run a community with information on fixing broken gadgets, but you can’t fix it if it ain’t broke — and they’ve made a name for themselves by breaking down the latest gear to see what makes it tick… and whether it’s possible to put it back together again. Ouya’s $99 […]