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Verizon iPhone 4 teardown: World Phone CDMA/GSM radio inside

, Feb 7th 2011 Discuss [8]

iFixit has been at it again, whipping out the adjustable spanner set (well, a selection of Torx screwdrivers actually) and taking on Verizon's iPhone 4. We've already given the CDMA smartphone a good going over in our full Verizon iPhone 4 review, but now we get to see the changes inside the iOS handset too. The biggest point of interest is the Qualcomm MDM6600 radio chipset, which actually could've been used to make the Verizon iPhone 4 into a so-called world phone. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up: January 28 2011

, Jan 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

What's the difference between a Windows 7 tablet and a steel hammer? Ask Fujitsu - they've got the answer. What's better than listening to Aphex Twin? Listening to Aphex Twin on mushrooms. What's a bigger reason for shuffling Google CEOs - their competitors, or China? Finally, what's the biggest overnight news for Notion Ink's Adam tablet? Is it a Honeycomb update, an FCC teardown, a root that allows Android Marketplace access, or their customer service possibly stalling past their 7 day return period? This question can only be answered by YOU. And what's this - a review of a AT&T MiFi 2372 by none other than Chris Davies?! All this and MORE on SlashGear Morning Wrap-Up! Read The Full Story

Notion Ink Adam gets teardown treatment at FCC

, Jan 28th 2011 Discuss [22]

When it comes to gadgets that hit the market you can count on some taking a shiny new toy and tearing it apart to document what it looks like on the inside and share that teardown with the rest of us. Often the first glimpse at teardown pics we see come by way of the FCC. Read The Full Story

PlayStation Phone gets teardown treatment

, Jan 12th 2011 Discuss [0]

If the preview, group shots and video demos weren't enough to convince you that the Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone is real, how about a pre-release teardown? TGBus whipped out their screwdriver set and got to work stripping the smartphone down to its bare boards. Read The Full Story

Nexus S Teardown

, Dec 16th 2010 Discuss [3]

Oh those folks at iFixit, they're so wild in their need to take everything apart. Come with me and see their unscrewing and note with me how they find Nexus S to be more of a gimmick than a feature-filled device. Ruh roh. Did they say gimmick? They sure did. They note first and foremost the fact that it's got a curved display and is running Android 2.3 Gingerbread, saying basically that these shouldn't be enough to convince someone to purchase the brand new phone. They do say some nice things though! Or maybe they're just funny. They note that once the back of the phone is off, it looks like something out of Tron: Legacy. Then they say that you shouldn't give the battery to a baby. And you know good and well that it only gets better from there! Read The Full Story

Google smash, freeze & burn 25 Cr-48 Chrome OS notebooks in praise of the cloud [Video]

, Dec 10th 2010 Discuss [3]

Usually, when an interesting new gadget arrives, we have to wait until iFixit gets around to tearing it down before we see what's going on inside. Google, though, don't appear willing to wait for that to happen; they've pushed out a video to demonstrate the benefits of cloud-based working, and along the way 25 Google Cr-48 notebooks are broken, frozen, shattered and generally mistreated. Video destruction after the cut Read The Full Story

Parrot AR.Drone gets grounded in new teardown

, Dec 3rd 2010 Discuss [0]

If you're a Parrot AR.Drone owner, the view below is probably something you're only likely to see after a particularly impressive - if overly organized - crash. The quadricopter is designed to make component replacement straightforward, but iFixit went one step further and stripped it down completely in their latest teardown. Read The Full Story

Samsung Galaxy Tab teardown: big battery & tough screen

, Nov 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

We've been waiting to see the Galaxy Tab torn down fully for some time now, having had our appetites whetted a few weeks back, and iFixt has done the honors. They found the Android slate's Gorilla Glass fascia took a fair amount of heat to remove, but otherwise all of the components are accessible without  soldering and the huge battery is user-replaceable. Read The Full Story

Boxee Box gets teardown treatment

, Nov 11th 2010 Discuss [2]

The Boxee Box by D-Link is shipping, and it's played right into iFixit's destructive hands. Inside it's an admirable mixture of easily-unscrewed components and a vast heatsink keeping Intel's Atom CE4110 SoC cool. Read The Full Story

Microsoft Kinect shredded at iFixit

, Nov 5th 2010 Discuss [0]

Those geeks over at iFixit took their shiny new Kinect for the Xbox 360 and started tearing the thing apart as soon as it hit the office. It's a dirty job, but someone has to gut all the cool new gadgets and iFixit does it with mucho gusto. Read The Full Story

Samsung Galaxy Tab suffers indignity of video teardown

, Nov 2nd 2010 Discuss [0]

With the US-spec Galaxy Tab yet to launch, we haven't seen the customary iFixit teardown of the 7-inch slate.  Modder jkkmobile hasn't quite stripped his European-spec tab down to the bare circuit boards, but he has wasted no time in exposing its guts on video. Read The Full Story

Logitech Revue teardown reveals the inevitable

, Oct 25th 2010 Discuss [0]

It's not so much a rite of passage, now, but an honor to be considered geekily-cool enough to be subject to an iFixit teardown, and latest to splay its circuits across the test bench is the Logitech Revue.  The standalone Google TV STB has given up its secrets quite readily, with plenty of standard Phillips-head screws and generally standard connectors. Read The Full Story
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