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Just five days after Google took the wraps of its flagship tablet – the Nexus 7 – at the Google I/O developer conference last week in San Francisco, the tinkers and modders over at iFixit tore the device down, revealing the tablet’s hardware in all its glory. We already know the Nexus 7’s specs – quad-core 1.3 GHz Tegra 3, 7-inch IPS display panel with a 1280 × 800 screen resolution, 1GB RAM, Wi-Fi/ Bluetooth/ NFC, 12-core GPU, and Android 4.1 a.k.a. Jelly Bean. In case you missed our thorough review of the device, you can check it out here. So, what did the folks over at iFixit discovered?

Well, they found out that the Nexus 7 tablet has a Hynix HTC2G83CFR DDR3 RAM, a Kingston KE44B-26BN/8GB 8GB flash, a Max 77612A inverting switching regulator, an AzureWave AW-NH665 wireless module, a Broadcom BCM4751 integrated monolithic GPS receiver, and a Invensense MPU-6050 gyro and accelerometer. Interestingly, the teardown also revealed that the tablet’s GPS, NFC, and Wi-Fi antennas all are manufactured sometime between April and May. If you love digging into the hardware of things, check out the step-by-step teardown of the device via iFixit’s website.

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We can always count on iFixit to get down and dirty with its spudger and the latest tablet tech, and we’re not going home empty handed today. The latest victim happens to be Google’s recently announced Nexus 7, which has achieved a “repairability score” of 7 out of 10 (the Kindle Fire squeaked one notch past with an 8), with many accessible components including a replaceable battery and standard Phillips screws. While the site’s ultimate goal is to illustrate the delicate process of opening our gadgets while leaving them unharmed, the good folks at iFixit never fail to entertain us in the process, with two dozen high-res photos of the Nexus 7’s innards littering the 21-step repair guide. The most disappointing discovery appears to be the display, which is permanently affixed to its Corning glass covering, but given the tablet’s $200 price tag, replacing such a component is not likely to be a cost-effective proposition. There’s plenty more to gawk over, but you’ll need to head to iFixit to, well, get your fix. Click on through at our source link below.

Google’s Nexus 7 tablet hits the iFixit teardown labs originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember that low-end Xperia handset that surfaced earlier this month with a one-way ticket to China? Well that 4-inch ICS device, the Neo L, has just made its many assets known for the folks at the FCC, stripping down to its internal skivvies and leaving nothing to the (lawyer’s) imagination. There aren’t any surprises here — no LTE or AWS support, but it does sport radios for EDGE / GPRS (850MHz, 1900MHz), GSM (850MHz, 900MHz, 1800MHz, 1900MHz) and WCDMA (900MHz, 2100MHz). So, the good news is that if you have your eye on this Sony-made Android lightweight, then it should play nice with AT&T and T-Mobile. Whether it’ll ever officially joins those carriers lineups remains to be seen, but don’t let a little thing like that stop you from importing away. Hit up the source to trawl the mobile dissection at your leisure.

Sony Xperia Neo L peels back the covers for FCC originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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