Enlarge / Ken Keiter gets ready to tear apart the SpaceX Starlink user terminal, “Dishy McFlatface.” Ken Keiter Engineer Ken Keiter recently came into possession of one SpaceX Starlink user terminal, the satellite dish that SpaceX nicknamed “Dishy McFlatface.” But instead of plugging it in and getting Internet access from SpaceX’s low Earth orbit (LEO) […]
Super-telephoto lenses are known for being two things: Heavy and expensive. But the new Canon RF 600mm f/11 is neither. With Canon’s full-frame mirrorless cameras in mind, it weighs a hair over 2 pounds and costs just $ 699, a far cry from the 6.7-pound, $ 13,000 Canon EF 600mm f/4 for DSLRs. For photographers […]
X-rays. From left to right: the previous iPhone SE, the iPhone 8, and the 2020 iPhone SE. iFixit Here’s the logic board for the iPhone SE (right) next to the iPhone 8 (left). iFixit This is the camera in the iPhone SE. It, too, appears quite similar to the iPhone 8 counterpart. iFixit The full […]
Enlarge / The Huawei P40 Pro. Huawei Huawei is still using components made by US companies in its newest flagship smartphone, a Financial Times teardown has found, despite the US all but blacklisting the Chinese telecoms equipment manufacturer. On Thursday, Huawei launched its P40 smartphone—one of the first flagship devices the company has launched since […]
The full teardown of the 2020 iPad Pro. iFixit Here’s the camera array with lidar sensor. iFixit And here’s an infrared view of the dots projected by that lidar sensor. iFixit For comparison, the dots projected by the TrueDepth array on the front used for Face ID. iFixit As expected, iFixit has published a teardown […]
Inside the MacBook Air. iFixit It’s the same new/old keyboard design we saw in the 16-inch MacBook Pro. iFixit Peeking underneath the trackpad and getting a glimpse at that cabling. iFixit The full teardown of the MacBook Air. iFixit iFixit, a company that sells gadget-repair parts and publishes regular teardowns of popular devices, dug into […]
The new A13 SoC. iFixit The teardown view of the new three-camera array. iFixit The new, large battery. iFixit The full teardown. iFixit As has become an annual custom, iFixit tore down the latest iPhone—in this case the iPhone 11 Pro Max—to see what has changed inside Apple’s flagship device. The site found that the […]
Samsung apparently doesn’t take kindly to iFixit’s disassembly of an unreleased smartphone. iFixit iFixit pointed out design flaws, like the exposed screen edge around the hinge. iFixit This thin plastic bezel is the only thing keeping the display on, but it stops around the hinge area. iFixit The hinge also contained a ton of ingress […]
These plastic bezels and their “light adhesive” are all that hold the display on to the Galaxy Fold. So what happens at the fold point? Uh, the plastic bezels stop, so you can stick things under the display. iFixit In some folding configurations, the display lifts away from the body somewhat, providing ample room for […]
The OG AirPods and the new ones side by side. The latch is different, and Apple moved the sync button. iFixit The earbud, disassembled. Marked in yellow: probably a low-power stereo audio codec, according to iFixit. The red: “Apple 343S00289 (likely Apple’s new H1 chip).” iFixit Here’s the logic board inside the case. Marked in […]
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad+Pro+11-Inch+Teardown/115457 Following the controlled destruction of the Mac mini and the MacBook Air, iFixit turned its gaze to the new 11-inch iPad Pro. Its teardown reveals lots of adhesive, even more magnets, and only a few surprises inside the newest Apple tablet. Unsurprisingly, the super-narrow bezels make the new iPad Pro harder to get into […]
The iPhone XS has a different battery design than the iPhone XS Max, which has the same design as the iPhone X. iFixit Here, the iPhone X stacked on top of the XS and XS Max. Note that there’s a new antenna band. iFixit Camera components from the iPhone XS and XS Max. iFixit One […]