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I know what you’re thinking… “Dr.Wreck? Why take apart a Kindle? Your specialty is mobile phones!”

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The Kindle 2 with Global Wireless technology pretty much is a mobile phone. It’s just missing a few features and functions that smartphones have – such as the super high resolution LCD screen, phone capabilities, palm-sized form factor, calendar, push e-mail service and countless time-consuming “productivity” apps.

Ahem.

Well ugh, even if the device doesn’t function as a mobile phone, the important thing is that we had a feeling the hardware was similar – and well, we just wanted one to play with.

Without further ado, we bring you, the Kindle 2 – Global Wireless Teardown!

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Continue reading Amazon Kindle 2 – Global Wireless, Teardown/In Depth-Analysis

Yesterday’s teardown received  a lot of hype. We’re glad we could cater to what many of our readers obviously enjoy! We’ve been working hard with “our friends in high places” to really figure out what makes this thing chug.

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Continue reading Motorola Droid Teardown Analysis!

Ladies and Gentlemen, the moment you have all been waiting for has arrived. Dr.Wreck has fully dissasembled his Brand New Motorola Droid from Verizon.

Stay tuned to his Twitter, and RSS feed for all the details as they come out! We’re currently in the process of identifying all of the devices on the logic board. Keep [...]

Ah yes the BlackBerry Tour 9630 – RIM’s answer via Sprint and Verizon to the very successful Bold (available on GSM networks).

Design wise, the Tour shares similarity with all 3 of the current and very successful BlackBerry devices available on the market. It’s got the shape of the storm, the screen of the 8900 and [...]

Dr.Wreck loves his BlackBerry devices. So much so, he’s rounded up every one money can currently *legally* buy (and is worth actually buying).
Our BlackBerry Bold vs. BlackBerry storm review from last Fall was a smashing success. We figured we’d one up it and review the whole darn shootin’ match!

What we’ve got here is the current [...]

The phone itself (in it’s fully functional and intact form) got a mediocre review at best. We’re wondering if it was due to limitations in the OS/form factor or if it was a larger issue stemming from economy hardware.
Of course, we didn’t really wonder for very long – we ripped it apart!

Ah, the original sidekick – one of the most revolutionary devices of it’s time bringing a full-qwerty keyboard to the texting masses.
Currently there is the LX and the standard. In the past we’ve seen the Tony Hawk edition, the older LX, the colour, the II, the 3, the II juicy, the d-wade 3, the Diane [...]

So here it is, the much awaited Palm Pre.   Dr. Phone and Dr. Wreck have been following the handset industry from the days of the so cool Zack Morris brick phone (which we were happy to see once again appear on a recent episode of Jimmy Fallon) to the astronomically popular Motorola Razr, all the [...]

Apple “surprised” us early this month with the announcement of it iPhone 3G “s”. Whenever Apple releases a new device – everyone and their brother/sister has to get involved.
Dr. Wreck is no exception and has been working hard with the gentlemen/women over at ifixit to get the skinny on the new device. Without further [...]

As promised, we’re coming at you with the second part of our analysis of the Palm Pre from Sprint. This time, we’ll be talking about the specifics of the form-factor design. What we like, what we don’t like and what is merely – satisfactory.
This review will be a good compliment to what ifixit has already [...]