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Yesterday was a Big day for E-readers. We saw the nook drop to $149.99 (WiFi only) and $199.99 for the 3G model. The Kindle 3 was hovering around $259.99 but made a significant leap to $189.99 at the news! Keep in the mind the kindle comes packaged with 3G regardless of price-point.

This is big news, and greatly reduces the margin each manufacturer takes on the device sale.

On both devices, data is offered for free. We all know from personal experience that data isn’t cheap. We also saw from a previous teardown (Kindle 3) – that these devices are NOT cheap the build. The BOM on the Kindle 3 we took apart hovers around ~$200.

Continue reading E-readers see a significant price drop – Thanks iPad!

That’s right – you can now have 128GB of storage in a 17 x 22 x 1.7 mm footprint – brought to you by Toshiba. I can’t help but think this device will have a massive play in the larger devices we’re seeing come to light (See Tablet’s, MIDs, etc.)

Technical Specifications:
The device is built on […]

Last week, we saw a report on cnet making claims that Apple’s iPhone 4 is powered by the same device as the Samsung Wave S8500. The renowned A4 chip is manufactured by Samsung – it makes sense that it might appear in a Samsung device.

What many North American’s don’t know is that Samsung is a […]

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.

We love consumer electronic tear-downs, we’ve seen and performed a ton of them. In the past year we’ve seen a pretty considerable level of convergence in multi-use/multi-function IC’s.
A few notable corporations have played a major role in what we’ll call “hardware convergence”. One company that really stands out for leading this front is Qualcomm. Founded in 1985, […]

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 latest […]

Here at phonewreck, we’ve found our audience is interested in both phones and other related consumer electronic devices. We’ve been humming and hawing about new devices that we’d really like to play with when the BlackBerry Presenter pretty much landed on our laps.

In the realm of Bluetooth accessories, this thing is by far one of the most […]

I know what you’re thinking… “Dr.Wreck? Why take apart a Kindle? Your specialty is mobile phones!”
The Kindle 2 with Global Wireless technology pretty much is a mobile phone. It’s just missing a few features and functions that smartphones have – such as the super high resolution LCD screen, phone capabilities, palm-sized form factor, calendar, push e-mail […]

Yesterday’s teardown received a lot of hype. We’re glad we could cater to what many of our readers obviously enjoy! We’ve been working hard with “our friends in high places” to really figure out what makes this thing chug.
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