Verizon Galaxy Nexus spills its guts, gets Ice Cream Sandwich all over the floor
What treasures lurk beneath the surface of the Verizon Galaxy Nexus ? Well, erm, broadly the same ones that we saw when the HSPA+ version was torn down back in November
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Verizon Galaxy Nexus spills its guts, gets Ice Cream Sandwich all over the floor
ASUS Transformer Prime, disassembled: NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 sees daylight
While the FCC already had its wicked way with ASUS’ Transformer Prime, its intimate inner workings have now been spilled over at Wireless Goodness. Nestled between NAND memory from Hynix and some Elpida RAM is NVIDIA’s great tablet hope, its new quad-core chip. The full gallery of shots has disappeared from the FCC site, but silicon fans can still check out the chipboards in full glory at the source link below.
ASUS Transformer Prime, disassembled: NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 sees daylight originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
ASUS Transformer Prime, disassembled: NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 sees daylight
While the FCC already had its wicked way with ASUS’ Transformer Prime, its intimate inner workings have now been spilled over at Wireless Goodness. Nestled between NAND memory from Hynix and some Elpida RAM is NVIDIA’s great tablet hope, its new quad-core chip. The full gallery of shots has disappeared from the FCC site, but silicon fans can still check out the chipboards in full glory at the source link below.
ASUS Transformer Prime, disassembled: NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 sees daylight originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
ASUS Zenbook gets taken apart, finds the peace within
It’s certainly not very Zen, but AnandTech has pried open ASUS’ 11.6-inch ultrabook to see exactly what makes it all tick. The Zenbook’s innards are all tightly packed together inside the oh-so-thin casing, with the UX21′s slim-line cooler covering both of the Intel Core i7-2677M processors. The 128GB model has been given an ADATA SDD, while the bigger 256GB version runs on SanDisk storage, with the WiFi card contorted to squeeze inside the aluminum alloy body. ASUS has extended its design sensibilities outside of the tightly-packed casing, with the Microsoft serial number and certificate transplanted to the power unit, which leaves the Zenbook’s slick design lines and finish peacefully untainted. Those desperate for more details on the rig’s workings and accessories can find inner calm at the link below.
ASUS Zenbook gets taken apart, finds the peace within originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Fusion Garage’s Grid 4 smartphone sails through the FCC, Grid OS details flow from user manual
Go on, Fusion Garage — get down with your bad self. While we’d previously heard that the outfit’s $399 Grid 4 smartphone wouldn’t hit shelves until “closer to Q4,” a surprise stop by the FCC this morning makes us cautiously optimistic that it’ll happen — at least in the US — sooner rather than later. For those who’ve forgotten, this guy’s packing a 4-inch 800 x 480 LCD, dual-core Qualcomm CPU, 16GB of storage and dual cameras to boot. Moreover, the included user manual sheds a ton of light on how Grid OS will act, and it’s the first real in-depth look at how it’ll differ from what’s already out there.
We’re told that there’s a built-in web browser, Grid Launcher, support for Yahoo / Google data importing, a contacts app that’ll suck names in from just about anywhere, full integration with email / Facebook / Twitter and a “GridDesktop” application that’s used to load media from your PC or Mac onto the device. The guide also talks up the status bar, which is located at the top of the Grid 4 screen in order to show “indicators and widget controls for wireless networks, notifications, music playback and volume control.” The oddly-named TaoBar is described as a “unique feature that shows details on your current notifications, events and ongoing sensor information, while also offering suggestions that might be of interest.” Examples? Things like similar artists whilst listening to music, or pinging you with lunch recommendations when noon rolls around. Eager to see what else the feds put your future unlocked phone through? Give that source link a poke.
Update: We’ve added a gallery of the FCC’s teardown images below.
Fusion Garage’s Grid 4 smartphone sails through the FCC, Grid OS details flow from user manual originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Samsung Epic 4G Touch gets torn down, confirms its epic crendentials
The Samsung Epic 4G Touch is a triumph of engineering, jamming oh-so-very-much into an oh-so-little frame. What better way to celebrate its wonderous design, than to tear it all down to its constituent parts, and then reassemble it? Thank the guys at iFixit, because they’ve already done it — again. Interesting points include just a single EMI shield — unlike some competitors — which is great news for those looking to emulate a tear-down of their own Sprint-specific GSII. It could still prove to be a challenge, with both the glass panel and LCD apparently fused to the middle of the phone, meaning a replacement for that sumptuous 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen could prove costly. Click below for a pictorial blow-by-blow of the teardown, let’s keep the drooling to a minimum, shall we?
Samsung Epic 4G Touch gets torn down, confirms its epic crendentials originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sony Vaio Z gets the in-house teardown treatment (video)
Another official teardown, another predictable revelation: the new Sony Vaio Z‘s viscera are thinner, flatter and, er, more compressed than those of its predecessor. But at least this dissection is performed by an actual Vaio engineer who ought to know his stuff. In the video after the break, Shinji Oguchi explains how cooling was improved using a range of tricks, like aerating the laptop’s guts via holes in the keyboard. He also splits open the innovative external media dock, which connects via Intel’s Light Peak technology and uses a discrete GPU to give the Vaio Z some gaming oomph. Finally, there’s a separate, speeded-up video of Shinji putting the whole thing back together again from memory. The poor guy must be sick of it by now.
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Sony Vaio Z gets the in-house teardown treatment (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The under-appreciated hard drive gets torn apart and explained (video)
We don’t know about you, but we generally don’t give much thought to our hard drives or how they work. And that’s a shame because, as you’ll find out in the video after the break, they’re veritable miracles of modern science. Bill Hammack, also known as Engineer Guy, takes us on a detailed tour of the inner workings of the ubiquitous hard disk drive — from the Lorentz Force driven arm, to the head that floats a mere 10nm above the layered cobalt platters thanks to the wonders of aerodynamics. Maybe after this lesson in modern magnetic storage from Mr. Hammack you’ll appreciate how much more there is to storing your collection of Mission of Burma b-sides than simply printing ones and zeros on a shiny, spinning thing.
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The under-appreciated hard drive gets torn apart and explained (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Samsung Series 5 3G Chromebook gets iFixit teardown, lays bare its telling internals
It’s already made an early debut, just to sell out in a matter a hours, and now Samsung’s answer to the Chromebook, the Series 5, is getting some attention of a more destructive sort. The folks over at iFixit have proven once again that ripping apart consumer electronics is not only therapeutic, but also enlightening, this time putting Google’s ultraportable under the knife. On top of the specs we already have, this Chromebook’s inner workings reveal 2GB of non-upgradable DDR3 RAM (the CR-48 apparently packed upgradable RAM), Intel NM10 graphics, a Qualcomm Gobi WWAN board, an Atheros AR9382 802.11n WiFi chip, and a 16GB SanDisk SSD. If you want even more intimate details (and have some cash to burn) you can wait to rip into the Chromebook yourself — or you could to do the practical thing, and click on the source link below.
Samsung Series 5 3G Chromebook gets iFixit teardown, lays bare its telling internals originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Lenovo’s LePad gets LeTeardown
Lenovo’s long awaited LePad finally made its Chinese debut back in March, and while we may not ever see the tablet stateside — not as LePad, anyway — we can at least get a peak under the hood. Thanks to a teardown by IMP3, we’re seeing the inside of the machine for the first time, and while there’s not much in the way of surprises here, it’s always nice to see what makes these things tick. As we already knew, LePad’s packing the 1.3GHz Snapdragon chipset with Adreno 205 integrated graphics as well as an internal 27Wh battery. It’s also appears to be rocking Toshiba flash memory and a Wolfson audio processor. So we might not have much in the way of revelations here, but at least now you know what the LePad, or Skylight, or whatever, looks like underneath its skin.
Lenovo’s LePad gets LeTeardown originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 May 2011 16:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.