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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 08, 2013
With just a few common tools you can have your new OUYA torn apart and spread all over your desk
The $99 OUYA console is gradually making its way into the hands of Kickstarter backers, so t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 26, 2013
Samsung Galaxy S4 given a reparability score of 8 out of 10
The fellows over at iFixit got their Samsung Galaxy S4, and that means it's time to tear shit apart. Unlike most folks w...
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by Casey Rendon
Mar 28, 2013
Professional on closed course, do not attempt this at home
The machined aluminum unibody and zero gap construction makes the HTC One a very attractive phone. It also makes it extremely difficult...
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by Alex Dobie
Mar 22, 2013
If you've ever wondered what's lurking inside Sony's thin and rather stylish Xperia Tablet Z, then company's ready to satisfy your morbid curiosity with an official teardown video. I...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 17, 2012
The Nexus 10 says Samsung on the back, and after a detailed teardown we find that most of the innards say the same thing. The folks at Powerbook Medic have yanked that gorgeous screen off and had a ...
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by Andrew Martonik
Nov 16, 2012
These devices all look very smooth and nice on the outside -- the Nexus 4 is no exception -- but what makes them tick on the inside? Popular teardown and repair website iFixit has taken ap...
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by Richard Devine
Sep 09, 2012
Conducting teardowns on new devices is nothing new, we usually have the guys over at iFixit to thank for keeping our circuitry viewing habits fulfilled. However, in a slight break from the norm, Son...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 20, 2012
Hey, look at that. It's the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 -- perhaps you remember it from last week's launch event -- and it's got its business spread out all over the place. The folks at ifi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 05, 2012
Ever since the Google Nexus Q was announced last week at the Google I/O developer conference, folks have been trying to rationalize (or pan) its $299 price tag. We've been using it for a week no...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 03, 2012
The spudger-wielding technology sadists at iFixit are at it again, this time dissecting one of the new Nexus 7 tablets, presumably obtained from Google I/O, seeing as how they're not shippi...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 01, 2012
Now stop us if you've heard this one before, but here's the Samsung Galaxy S III, stripped to its guts. And guess what! There are smartphone parts inside! But, hey, you get a cool look at th...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 30, 2012
It's so blurry, it's nearly a smartphone snuff film. But here's the Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE broken down to its various smartphones parts in a little more than two minutes. And while y...
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by Kevin O'Quinn
Apr 19, 2012
See that beautiful display? It can come out of the phone, but it's not something you'd want to do to yourself. XDA China has posted instructions on how to disassemble the...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 13, 2012
A high-profile smartphone launch isn't complete without the obligatory teardown, wherein people far braver than us take screwdrivers, spudgers and even their bare hands to new devices. The ...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 25, 2012
Usually we have to wait for some brave individual to take screwdrivers, spudgers and the like to a device before we get to see what's lurking inside. This time, however, Samsung's saved you ...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 29, 2011
As is customary with any big, new phone, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus recently received the teardown treatment from the fearless spudgers over at iFixit. There's nothing too surprising lurking insid...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 21, 2011
The folks at iFixit have done their thing to the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet. Not a whole lot to learn here -- it's got electronics and stuff inside. You're not likely to be doing any sor...
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by Chris Parsons
Nov 15, 2011
The Amazon Kindle Fire has become the subject for the latest tear down from the folks over at iFixIt. Nothing insane was found underneath but unlike the Motorola Droid RAZR's super slim battery ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 11, 2011
And here we have the Motorola Droid RAZR splayed across a table for all to see, courtesy of those crazy cracker-openers, iFixit. No real surprises inside -- it's got smartphone parts. But you ge...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 20, 2011
First comes the major smartphone launch, then comes the teardown. The folks at iFixit have done their thing to the Samsung Galaxy S II Sprint Epic 4G Touch. And, lo and behold, it's a smartphone...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 09, 2011
Can't have a high-profile launch without a high-profile teardown, and the folks at iFixit have done their thing with the Motorola Droid Bionic. There's really nothing of any great surprise in here, t...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 18, 2011
What man builds, man must also take apart. At least that's how it goes for the folks at iFixit (we're not letting them near our phones any time soon), who snagged one of them newfangled Motorola Droid...
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by Jared DiPane
Jul 01, 2011
Seeing a beautiful device, like the HTC EVO 3D, torn down is always a terrifyingly amazing thing, it is incredible to see the insides, yet something that the owner never has the guts to do...
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by Chris Parsons
Jun 13, 2011
Although everyone hopes to never have to use them -- teardown and repair videos are a great resource of information for those who may need to repair a busted device. Having relied on a few in the pas...
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by Kyle Gibb
Feb 25, 2011
The people over at iFixit must really be on a roll because we have already seen both the Motorola Atrix 4G and the Samsung Galaxy S 4G get torn apart this week. Now it is the Motorola Xoom's tur...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 23, 2011
With the release of the Motorola Atrix 4G comes the customary teardown from the folks over at iFixit. While teardowns may not appeal to everyone, they often times reveal some unexpected details ...
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by Kyle Gibb
Oct 25, 2010
The Logitech Revue just came out, but it couldn't fend off the prying hands of the iFixit gang for long. After a disassembly that they rated 8 out of 10 (with 10 being easiest to open and repair...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 18, 2010
It's not sugar and spice, and everything nice, but sometimes resistors and IC's and ribbon cables are better anyway. Ifixit has gotten their hands on a Dell Streak, and what you see is the resul...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 13, 2010
Whenever a new phone rolls out, one of the first things that gets done (after the hands on video of course) is tearing it apart. The Droid 2 was no exception, and the guys over at ifixit have do...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 25, 2010
What do you get when you rip open a Droid X? Besides a creamy caramel center, you get what you see above. Not sure we want to try this ourselves just yet, but there's video after the break of it bei...
