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Posted: July 25, 2014 Amazon Fire Phone Teardown Preliminary Teardown analysis suggests that Amazon’s $649.00 USD (Amazon.com) phone costs $209.00 USD to build. Qualcomm is the primary providers of many of the key integrated circuits and both Invensense and OmniVision are noted for their role in

Posted: July 1, 2014 Galaxy S5 Mini Processor Package-on-Package Samsung Brings Shannon into the Galaxy S5 Mini Samsung brings their Shannon solution into the Galaxy S5 Mini, and by our observations this model already has FCC approval. The SM-G800F was first released in Russia, but with the FCC

Posted: June 24, 2014 Contributing Authors: Ray Angers The US$1.1B takeover bid announced last week by storage solutions heavyweight SanDisk (SNDK.O) for Utah-based Fusion-io (FIO.N) has many suggesting this signals SanDisk’s ambitions to dominate the enterprise segment of the storage market. For a

Posted: June 20, 2014 Contributing Authors: Martin Bijman The Chinese government recently revealed Microsoft’s secret list of about 310 Android-killer US patents . TechInsights has taken an initial look at these patents. We found there were actually only 243 unique patents and applications. About 80

Posted: April 20, 2014 Apple TV vs Amazon Fire TV Teardown The Apple TV (3rd generation) model A1427, was released in March 2012 and torn down and a Bill of Materials was generated in June 2012. At the time, the BOM was estimated by TechInsights™ Teardown.com at $70.30. Roughly 2 years later, in

Posted: April 11, 2014 Contributing Authors: M. Alarcon, R. Fontaine, D. James, R. Krishnamurthy, J. Morrison, D. Yang and C. Young Samsung Galaxy S5 Samsung unveiled their Galaxy S5 in Barcelona during this year’s Mobile World Congress. Although Samsung’s official global launch wasn't until later

Posted: November 28, 2013 Contributing Authors: Dick James Xbox One Kinect As we said in our Xbox One article, the new Kinect is quite a complex piece of equipment, so we thought that we'd dedicate a whole article to it. The first major difference we noticed for the new Kinect is that it's connected

Posted: November 25, 2013 Contributing Authors: Al Cowsky and Dr. John Scott-Thomas Microsoft comes out punching with a significant upgrade to Xbox franchise console and true competitor to Sony’s PS4 while still delivers per unit profits. TechInsights teardown costing shows both companies can profit

Posted: November 22, 2013 Xbox One It's clear we're in the run-up to the gift-giving season, with multiple launches of tablets and gaming systems. Last week was the turn of the Microsoft Xbox One, and it's hard to believe it's been twelve years since the first Xbox was launched, and eight years

Posted: November 15, 2013 Sony PlayStation 4 Sony’s PlayStation 4 makes its debut today and TechInsights’ Teardown team has hands on analysis of the components that promise to set a new benchmark in the gaming industry. While we’ll be tearing down the Microsoft’s XBOX ONE next Friday, today we take

Posted: November 1, 2013 Inside On October 23, 2013, Apple announced the newest iPad, the iPad Air. Since the announcement, we at TechInsights have been anxiously waiting for the opportunity to get our hands on the device. Well that moment has finally arrived. Apple reportedly reached $37.5 billion

Posted: October 4, 2013 Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Teardown In 2011 Samsung defined a new category with its 5.3” diagonal Galaxy Note phone. The original Note was so large it was considered by many as a phone that aspired to be a tablet; hence the term “phablet” was coined. The Galaxy Note’s monstrous