Continuing with its fascination for Apple products, iFixit, who are known for surgically removing all the organs of devices and laying them side by side, has acquired and disassembled the new iMac with 5K Retina display.
Apple’s newest iMac continues to use many of the same design elements from previous iMacs, including an easily accessible RAM upgrade slot, the same SSD, and logic board on the back of the device. With the RAM slot, users will be able to install their own RAM modules with little trouble.
Along with an AMD Radeon M290X GPU [...]
Apple’s flagship is now available for anyone who has got the money for it. The phone got polarising reviews with Apple fans sticking by their device and Android fans turning social media against the new iPhones using tons of memes. As always, it is now time to rip apart and unveil all the secret sauces that went into making the new jewel in Apple’s crown. The tear down of both phones showed us that they are pretty interesting on the inside.
First up, the iPhone 6 with a 4.7 inch display. A Japanese blog called ‘Mac Otakara’ disassembled the phone. They found that the 1810 mAh battery on the device was [...]
It was bound to happen at some point, and condolences to whomever sacrificed their frames for the greater good aside, we’ve got our first look at the components from Google Glass and how they’re fitted together.
The internet owes a deep thanks to Scott Torborg and Star Simpson who did a detailed tear-down post on the Google Glass.
Some of the motivation for the tear down was purely technological while some of it was driven by the growing concerns about privacy and personal security in the US.
“Growing up on a rich diet of dystopian tech fiction, we were filled with both [...]
The HTC One looks like bulletproof phone, with a hefty aluminium – glass body and no removable back.
However, there is a price to pay for its robust unibody design. Teardown specialists iFixit found that the new phone is practically impossible to open up and repair. It got a score of one, one out of ten that is.
With the release of the HTC One, the manufacturer has bet a whole lot on the hardware as a proving point in their history. With this release, the company known as HTC says that they’ve done the best they’re able at the moment – this [...]
The Sony Xperia Tablet Z is currently the thinnest tablet yet at only 6.9mm and it weighs just 495grams. That’s actually thinner than the 7.9mm Xperia Z. To find out how its top notching hardware gets packed in such a slim profile, Sony has released its official tear down of the Xperia Tablet Z. Of course, dissecting the tablet would automatically void its warranty, so don’t try this at home (if you have one, that is, which is highly unlikely for people living in India)!
The Sony Xperia Tablet Z was announced back in January, and has gone on sale in Japan today, it will also [...]
Google’s Nexus 7 Tab joins the iFixit list of tear downs, with the tablet being torn apart by the experts. Several discoveries were made during the teardown, including the fact that the display is permanently attached to the gorilla glass front. The 7-inch, 1280×800 HD display is manufactured by Hydis and designated model HV070WX2.
for parts
Kingston KE44B-26BN/8GB 8GB flash Realtek ALC5642 ELAN eKTF36248WS ELAN eKTH10368WS Texas Instruments 22C96ST SN75LVDS83B (www.ti.com/product/sn75lvds83b) TI20 MI60 Hynix HTC2G83CFR DDR3 RAM
Motherboard Parts:
NVIDIA T30L Tegra 3 [...]The folks over at iFixit cant refrain from their antic and this time around they ripped the Jesus phone before it reached out to people. They have a humorously documented rip down of the new “Siri” laden smartphone. A looksie i promise will bring a smile to your face follow the link below!
The findings are not too shocking with the same 512MB of Ram Courtesy Samsung/Elpida (both DDR2), and the following chips:
Qualcomm RTR8605 Multi-band/mode RF Transceiver.
Skyworks 77464-20 Load-Insensitive Power Amplifier (LIPA®) module developed for WCDMA applications)
Avago ACPM-7181 Power [...]
The highly talked about, recently announced device – The Xiaomi Phone has been taken apart for our viewing pleasure. The very powerful dual core device is all set to launch next month for a relatively low 300$ price. Pre orders for the device have already begin and one lucky individual was able to get his hands on for a full fledged teardown of the device.
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The Folks over at iFixit have taken apart the iPad 2 in their trademark style. With high res pictures and all. Check out the video detailing the fact that the repairability of the iPad 2 is ranked at 4/10 making it quite a difficult device to repair.
Other important details that emerged:
The display is fused instead of clamped Both cameras are low res under 1 Megapixel The front camera is infact a VGA Speakers although have a larger vent remain small and tiny The Battery is just .2 w/hr larger than the previous model[iFixit]
