iPhone 4 and Samsung ‘Wave’ use the same chip? Not Suprised.

Last week, we saw a report on cnet making claims that Apple’s iPhone 4 is powered by the same device as the Samsung Wave S8500. The renowned A4 chip is manufactured by Samsung – it makes sense that it might appear in a Samsung device. What many North American’s don’t know is that Samsung is [...]

Smartphone Market Share Q1 – 2010

Just a quick update today – something Dr.Wreck likes to keep track of and is probably of interest to most of our readers. Thinking of buying a smartphone? Want to predict what’s hot based on last quarter’s sales? Check out the below chart.

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 [...]

iPhone 3Gs – Teardown and Analysis

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 [...]

Palm Pre – Part 2: Design Analysis (Software/UI Analysis coming soon!)

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 [...]

State of the Industry: Media

We apologize for the hiatus on posts, but we’ve been running into a few technical difficulties.  Needless to say, we’re hopefully back in full force, with another analytical post! In State of the Industry we take a step back from the typical archaic product cycles of the mobile industry and focus our attention on one [...]