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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Peek inside the Google Nexus 5
We have a pretty good idea what the Google Nexus 5 looks like on the outside. But want to know what’s under the hood? The folks at FanaticFone have obtained photos of the internal bits, giving us a good idea of what the battery, camera lens, and other guts of the phone look like. First […]
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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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Lilbits (9-05-2013): Lenovo’s done with Windows RT
Lenovo is the latest company that seems to be washing its hands of Windows RT. When Microsoft announced it was working on a version of its desktop operating system that would run on low-power ARM-based processors, it was pretty big news. ARM chips were dominating the smartphone and tablet space at the time (and still […]
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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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Google Nexus 4, Nexus 10 dissected secrets revealed (including a dormant LTE chip)
Just days after the latest Google Nexus products hit the streets, a couple of repair shops have taken apart the Nexus 4 smartphone and Nexus 10 tablet to see what lies beneath the surface. And they’ve posted teardown guides online. Powerbook Medic disassembled the Nexus 10 tablet, while the folks at iFixit ripped apart the […]
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iPhone 5 dissected: 3 microphones, no turntable
Now that the iPhone 5 is available, people are getting ready to slap 5 rows of icons in the larger displays, make FaceTime video calls over cellular networks, and surf the web over 4G LTE. But if you want to know how the new iPhone 5 does what it does, the folks at iFixit flew halfway […]
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Amazon Kindle Fire HD dissected, proves (relatively) simple to fix
With a starting price of $199, it might be cheaper and easier to buy a new Kindle Fire HD 7 inch tablet if anything goes wrong on yours than it is to replace a broken touchscreen. But if you’re the sort of person that likes to fix things yourself, it looks like the Kindle Fire […]
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Samsung dissects the Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE for your viewing pleasures
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 […]