Teardown

Microsoft's Surface Pro may only have been released last week, but iFixit has already torn it apart . Perhaps unsurprisingly, you don't wanna think about repairing or upgrading this thing, period. More »

Bill Detwiler shows you how to crack open the LG-built Google Nexus 4 and uncovers a hardware surprise inside. [Read more]

The BlackBerry Z10 has already arrived in a few markets and while we are still waiting for it to arrive in the United States along with the new BlackBerry 10 platform in March…

What’s in a phone? If it’s the BlackBerry Z10 , then it’s plenty of Qualcomm gadgets and a surprising mixture of components already seen used in Samsung’s Galaxy S III, with a new teardown of the BlackBerry 10 smartphone suggesting the Canadian firm may well have cribbed some design inspiration...

BlackBerry's new all-touch Z10 may have only been announced a little over a week ago, but some intrepid nerds have already torn the phone to shreds. And inside? It looks a lot like a Samsung. More »

Friend of the site Bo Zhang recently sent us his findings regarding autofocus problems he was experiencing with his Sigma 50mm f/1.4 EX DG HSM lens. After his teardown and testing process, Zhang surmised that paint loss on a specific rotor resulted in metal shavings that jammed the autofocus motor.

If you were following Sony's CES press event in detail , you might recall it launched with a quick video of a new Sony product made by hand. We now know that was to be the Xperia Z , and now the company's released a curiously relaxing video of a (largely) off-camera tinkerer crafting the...

If you are a true blue Nokia fan, are you familiar with the Nokia DT910 charging plate? Well, it is not the most famous of all, simply because the DT900 instead will accompany your Lumia 920 as a free accessory with the purchase of that smartphone. Well, the Nokia DT910 charging plate comes with...

If you lived through the ’70s or ’80s, you probably remember a time when technology was big. TVs, with their cathode ray tubes, were monstrous. Amplifiers and hi-fis were heavy, bulky, expensive things. And computers… computers were really large. Case in point: The IBM hard drive pictured above,...

An Apple iMac teardown has revealed that a glued-down LCD has replaced the magnet-fixed screen on Apple’s all-in-one.