Dr.Wreck’s take on Mobile Devices and IC Convergence

We love consumer electronic tear-downs, we’ve seen and performed a ton of them. In the past year we’ve seen a pretty considerable level of convergence in multi-use/multi-function IC’s. A few notable corporations have played a major role in what we’ll call “hardware convergence”. One company that really stands out for leading this front is Qualcomm. Founded in [...]

Foxconn’s Tegra 2-powered Android Tablet

In the interim of Product Teardown’s, Dr.Wreck has decided to call on his vast experience with taking apart and creating consumer electronics. Today we’d like to briefly discuss Foxconn’s new platform featuring Tegra 2 and Android. Nvidia has done fantastic things with it’s Tegra platform – recently engadget got a chance to play with the [...]

BlackBerry Presenter – Review and Teardown

Here at phonewreck, we’ve found our audience is interested in both phones and other related consumer electronic devices. We’ve been humming and hawing about new devices that we’d really like to play with when the BlackBerry Presenter pretty much landed on our laps. In the realm of Bluetooth accessories,  this thing is by far one of the [...]