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Posted: September 20, 2013 Contributing Authors: Jim Morrison and Chad Davis Apple iPhone 5c On September 10, 2013, Apple announced two new iPhones, the 5s and 5c. Since the announcement, we at TechInsights have been anxiously waiting for the opportunity to get our hands on the devices. Well that

Posted: September 20, 2013 Contributing Authors: Jim Morrison, Ray Fontaine, Dick James and Chad Davis Inside On September 10, 2013, Apple announced two new iPhones, the 5s and 5c. Since the announcement, we at TechInsights have been anxiously waiting for the opportunity to get our hands on the

Posted: September 18, 2013 Contributing Authors: Miranda Lim In Parts 1 and 2, we reviewed the breakdown of BlackBerry’s patent portfolio. We also took a closer look at how the portfolio breaks down from a technology perspective into three main areas: handheld design technologies, multimedia

Posted: September 11, 2013 Contributing Authors: Miranda Lim Last week we took a high level look at BlackBerry’s patent portfolio – total number of US patents and applications and other jurisdictions they are filing in. We also broke the portfolio down by key technology areas: handheld design

Posted: September 5, 2013 Contributing Authors: Miranda Lim Eyes have been on BlackBerry for the past several weeks, as the company announced the formation of a special committee to explore strategic business alternatives, including a possible sale of the company. While BlackBerry is still

Posted: April 24, 2013 Inside the Samsung Galaxy S4 Smartphone – Cementing a legacy If there is one thing I have learned in my years on this planet, it would be that it is human nature to staunchly choose sides. Whether it is Republican or Democrat, Coke or Pepsi, and Mac or PC, people love to rally

Posted: March 28, 2013 HTC One Before entering the teardown lab we take 20-30 minutes with each phone. We aren't talking about running benchmarks in Passmark or Antutu, but simply getting our impressions. While we took some time with it at the Mobile World Congress, having it in house without the

Posted: February 21, 2013 Inside Originally the Google Glass was only available to “Explorers” better known as developers. Finally Google offered a one day sale on April 15, 2014 allowing the general public to purchase the Glass for a whopping $1500. At Teardown.com we managed to get our hands on

Posted: February 5, 2013 Building off the momentum of an international product launch in New York that featured not only a corporate rebranding and the naming of a Grammy-award winning artist as their new global creative director, one had to wade through a lot of flash and sizzle to get down to what

Posted: February 4, 2013 Nintendo Wii U Looking at the Wii U Graphics Processor Yes, even reverse engineering the latest technology has its up and down days. At the start of the reverse engineering process, we generally have a simple electronics teardown before we can get to the more traditional

Posted: January 22, 2013 GoPro Hero3 GoPro Hero3 The Hero3 fills a profitable niche in a crowded imaging market where other devices, such as digital still cameras and video cameras, are losing market share. I think we would be safe to assume that the average enthusiast doesn't want to strap their

Posted: January 8, 2013 Nikon D5200 DSLR At CES 2013 Nikon announced the US availability of a new premium-level consumer DSLR camera, the D5200. When compared to the high level of integration on a single board that one finds in a typical smart phone a DSLR is a complex system of individual parts. If