Gadgets New Kindles Face the Teardown Fire It's that time of year again. Fall is here: leaves are turning, Ugg sales are on the upslope, and your local Starbucks is busily brewing up Pumpkin Spice Lattes. All… October 10, 2014 by Andrew Goldheart
Gadgets Motorola Caught Diving in TI’s Dumpster Dumpster diving confirmed. It looks like Ars Technica nailed it — the Moto 360 features a four-year-old TI OMAP3630. That's the same processor we found in the Motorola Droid 2… September 9, 2014 by Miro Djuric
Gadgets Oculus Rift DK2: Super Cool, Super Repairable When a device like the Oculus Rift DK2 comes through our doors, the folks at iFixit dance around like giddy schoolgirls and schoolboys. We literally have to fight them—sometimes to… July 31, 2014 by Miro Djuric
Gadgets Amazon Fire Phone Teardown We had high hopes that Amazon built a solid, repairable Fire Phone. It began with a similar opening procedure to the current crop of iPhones, but with welcome Torx T3… July 24, 2014 by Miro Djuric
Gadgets Microsoft’s Newest Surface Pro 3 Tablet Cracked Open If thin is in, then thinner must be...inner. Microsoft made serious strides, taking their Surface Pro series closer to the laptop frontier than ever before, while still keeping up with… June 26, 2014 by Andrew Goldheart
Gadgets Prototype of Google’s Project Tango Goes Under the Knife Hey, great news! We didn't have to steal a Project Tango unit from a developer, or have someone "accidentally leave it" in a bar. The folks at Google's Advanced Technology… April 16, 2014 by Miro Djuric
Gadgets Samsung Gear Fit: Another Wearable Hits the Teardown Table Today we focus on taking apart the Gear Fit. This little gus has quite the unique construction, given its round shape. The motherboard is split into three separate pieces, and… April 11, 2014 by Miro Djuric
Gadgets Can a Device Be Wearable and Repairable? Equipped with screws and a snap-off rear case, the Gear 2 is a sturdy device you won’t need to baby, or feel guilty about buying. When the battery fails, you… April 9, 2014 by Andrew Goldheart
Gadgets Amazon TV Fire Earns Mid-Pack Repair Score Two days ago Amazon announced a tiny black box that supposedly does everything better than all of the other tiny black boxes. Always excited to investigate such claims, we ordered… April 4, 2014 by Miro Djuric
Gadgets HP Z820: This Is What a Perfect Repairability Score Looks Like We took a look inside the Z820 to see just how it measures up to Apple's new tower of power, the Mac Pro. So, what did we find? In short,… February 26, 2014 by Andrew Goldheart