Samsung Galaxy S (i9000) Teardown + Analysis!

Believe it or not – one of the easiest Teardown’s we’ve performed to date! The device is built well, and easily dissasembled – vast improvements over previous attempts (AHEM OMNIA). We admit, it hurt a bit to take this thing apart – it’s such a nice device.

Sharp 841SH Teardown

Sharp’s “Waterproof” and Dustproof 841SH came by our desks and we couldn’t resist taking it apart. Most of the devices we teardown are built by large well known ODM’s or OEM’s and have fairly distinguishable reference designs. We knew that Japanese devices were different. What kind of IC’s did they use? Are these asian phones [...]

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 [...]