Inside the LG Watch Urbane. Photo: LG
Tiny gadgets are rarely easy to fix yourself if you break them, but an iFixit teardown of the new LG Watch Urbane reveals it’s much more repair-friendly than you might think. In fact, it’s so easy to mend that it gets a 7 out of 10 repairability score.
iFixit performed a customary teardown of the second-generation Oculus Rift developer kit this week, and upon removing the headset’s LCD display, they discovered something unexpected — an actual Galaxy Note 3 front panel, complete with Samsung logo and cutouts for a headset speaker and home button.
Like a lot of modern smartphones, the HTC One M8 is “extremely difficult” to repair. That’s according to the fine folks over at iFixit, who performed one of their customary teardowns on the new flagship shortly after its release on Tuesday.
It’s easier to get into than its predecessor, which received the worst repairability score of any smartphone iFixit has pulled apart — but things get much more difficult once you’re inside.
An overview of the Nexus 7 second-generation disassembled.
Google’s latest flagship tablet, the Nexus 7 2nd generation, is the latest victim to receive the teardown treatment. It doesn’t take much to strip the device, in fact, all that is needed is a Phillips #0 screwdriver, a set of plastic opening tools, and a spudger. Once you peel off the casing you’re presented with a collection of the latest hardware which powers the Nexus 7… Here’s a detailed insight of all the components that are packed inside.
On Thursday, we printed two images taken from an FCC filing for a Chromecast unit with its casing removed, we didn’t have much to go on at the time in terms of specific components other than the Marvell DE3005 chip, and the Azurewave chip which handles Wi-Fi connectivity at 2GHz but now that customer’s have finally started receiving the units they pre-ordered, curiosity has got the better of one company who has now disassembled the unit in order to have a detailed poke around the device’s hardware.
