Nokia N8 teardown reveals easily replaceable battery, ‘beefy’ construction
Surprise, surprise. The iFixit team have cornered themselves a dark grey Nokia N8 and have proceeded to do the one thing that comes naturally to them: disassembled it. It's mostly good news all around with this teardown, which found the BL-4D battery cell was only two Torx screws away from being user-replaceable, while the overall N8 construction was praised as being the "beefiest" of any phone this year
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: berry-torch, BlackBerry, complete, controller, disassembly, nokia n8, nokian8, screws, source, teardown, torch, xenon, xenon flash, xenonflash
Motorola Droid 2 ripped to shreds, where’s an astromech when you need one?
It's been less than a full day since Verizon's Droid 2 hit shelves (or two, if you count Sam's Club ) but the fine folks at iFixit have already managed to make their phone explode into...
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: a955, droid, horsepower, sam, teardown, verizon, verizonwireless
iFixit and Chipworks teardown the iPhone 4′s gyroscope
You didn't think the folks at iFixit would simply teardown the iPhone 4 and call it a day, did you? They've now gone the extra mile and done a detailed teardown of the iPhone 4's gyroscope with a little help from Chipworks
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: chipworks, engadget, Extra, gyroscopes, illustrate-how, mems, teardown
Droid X torn down, found to contain stuff
We've gotta tell you, looking at that belligerent red eye gracing the visage of the Droid X , we weren't entirely sure the thing wouldn't go all robot apocalypse on us if we ever tried disassembling it. Thankfully, someone else has taken that risk for us, and now we've got all sorts of nude pictures to gawk at. This teardown comes complete with some very practical how-to instructions, including the advice to use your nails to pry the case open instead of a metal screwdriver -- but only if you don't want to leave your roided-up Droid with battle scars
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: apocalypse, engadget, entry, motorola, motoroladroidx, nails, source, teardown, visage
iPhone 4 teardown now underway, 512MB RAM confirmed
With nary hours since the reviews went live , the gang at iFixit -- no doubt blessed by the hands of early deliveries -- have procured an iPhone 4 . And as is their modus operandi, they wasted no time tearing that sucker apart screw by screw.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: appleiphone4, cortex, device-at-its, earlier-rumors, gorilla, gorilla-glass, iphone4, more-enduring, peruse-on-over, screw, teardown
Sony Ericsson X10 Mini teardown reveals densely packed, tiny hardware
The crew at iFixit were jonesing for something to disassemble recently, and Sony Ericsson's X10 Mini seems to have been the nearest thing they could lay hand and screwdriver upon. We'll admit HTC has us kind of spoiled with the colorful interiors of its phones, so we were a little underwhelmed by the demureness of the X10 Mini. Everything is packed into the utilitarian logic board, and although you get to decouple the screen and antenna assembly, it's still mostly a thick slab of highly integrated technology.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: engadget, ericsson, htc, integrated, Logic, qualcommmsm7227, screen, screwdriver, sony-ericsson, source, teardown, x10 mini, x10mini
Samsung Galaxy S gets torn down, looks equally beautiful on the inside (video)
You'll be hard pressed to find a sane individual who'd argue that Samsung's Galaxy S isn't a lust-worthy piece of kit on the outside, and after watching the video past the break, we doubt you'll get too many takers on proving things unsightly within. Equipped with a Super AMOLED display and a bit of that Hummingbird goodness within, there weren't too many bits and pieces to tear apart. What was found, however, leaves a new appreciation for steady hands
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: break, dissect, galaxy, galaxy s, jun, past-the-break, pieces, smartphone, steady, teardown, torndown, video
HTC EVO 4G splayed, found to contain wires, chips
Often, iFixit needs to wait for a product to be released before it can spend a few hundred bucks buying one and tearing it asunder -- but in the case of the EVO 4G , Google's pre-release of units to attendees at IO appears to have been just the kind of event these guys needed to get in the door early. Taking the phone apart is described as a "wonderfully easy" process, and changing the screen's glass is said to be pretty easy as well -- good news considering how easy it'll probably be to crack those 4.3 inches of pure WVGA glory
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: business, chips, easy-as-well, engadget, evo, evo4g, full-rundown, htc, phone, process, released-before, silicon, surprises, teardown
Dell Mini 5 teardown reveals Snapdragon guts and 3G SIM (video)
As long as Dell chooses to be stingy with the details of its upcoming 5-inch Mini 5 (codenamed Streak ) MID we'll just have to suss out the specs from more nefarious sources. And who better to fill in the blanks than the kids over at Tinhte -- the original source of the leaked Android handheld that got official at CES? The Vietnamese site did the world a solid today by tearing into a Mini 5 sample revealing a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, two microSD slots, and a bigger 1,530mAh battery than the original 1,300mAh baby we saw back in October.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: ces, codenamed, dell, details, engadget, long-as-dell, nvidia, Sim, slot, streak, teardown
Google: Nexus One not supporting 802.11n (for the time being)
Contrary to what we saw two days ago (in this boffo teardown as well as on Google's official spec page) the company is now listing the Nexus One as supporting 802.11b/g and not 802.11n -- conforming at least to the specifications on HTC's official specifications, if not to our hopes and dreams. We'll let you know if anything changes -- again! [Thanks to everyone who sent this in] Google: Nexus One not supporting 802.11n (for the time being) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:20:00 EST
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: 802.11n, ces 2010, dreams, engadget, entry, friend-via, hopes, htc, nexus, not-supporting, now-listing, result, teardown, time