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iFixit Gives OUYA the Teardown Treatment, Finds the Small Console Fixes Up Easy

Eric May 8, 2013 13

It is like a cycle - a new mobile device comes out and first comes the drop test and screen scratch videos. After that comes the inevitable teardown from the guys over at iFixit which, unlike the first two examples, are actually interesting and useful. Now...

iFixit Teardown Reveals 7-Band LTE Chip Inside Nexus 4

Kellen November 18, 2012 56

Well, would you look at that. On Friday evening, iFixit posted their "teardown" of the LG Nexus 4 and discovered that it has a Qualcomm 7-band 4G LTE chip inside it. But, wait! I thought it didn't have LTE and was HSPA+ only? It is. For whatever reason though,...

Kindle Fire HD Gets iFixit Teardown, Scores High on Ease of Repairability

Eric September 17, 2012 3

No new piece of tech goes mainstream until the guys over at iFixit have torn it open and showed us all of what's inside. The new Kindle Fire HD is the most recent device to fall to the repair tools and got pulled open promptly. Amazon took a cue from Google in...

iFixit DROID 4 Teardown Reveals HSPA+ Radio, Motorola Conveniently Removes it From MotoDev Site

Kellen February 13, 2012 59

The iFixit team performed their standard teardown of the DROID 4 today, revealing the guts of Verizon's latest 4G LTE phone. You will find an 8MP camera, the 4" display, and a non-removable battery - again, the usual. But one thing that stood out was the...

Galaxy Nexus Gets the Teardown Treatment

Kellen November 29, 2011 110

Waiting for the Galaxy Nexus has been painful enough already, so if you can't possibly take anymore, then you may want to pass on watching iFixit do their standard teardown. As a device that is almost impossible to come by unless you are willing to fork out $...

DROID RAZR and Its Ultra-Thin Body Get Torn Apart, Motorola Also Talks Design

Kellen November 11, 2011 121

These iFixit teardowns are usually worth a quick glance because the innards of new technology is simply fun to look at. Rarely though, do we get to see something we haven't seen before or that makes us actually thumb through the entire teardown. That's...

DROID3 Gets Torn Down, No Surprises Included But We Still Cringe

Kellen July 18, 2011 47

The iFixit crew took to the DROID3 as they do any new device that has built up buzz and tore the sucker down. There weren't any surprises tucked away, but we do get to see its set of radios for global roaming, dual-core OMAP4430 processor, on-board stoarge,...

Motorola XOOM Torn Apart, 4G LTE Upgrade Should Be Super Simple?

Kellen February 25, 2011 45

The iFixit crew wasted no time tearing into the Motorola XOOM and confirming that it indeed sports a Tegra 2 along with every other listed spec, but that's not the story here. When we broke news that the the 4G LTE upgrade for the XOOM would take...