Ripping apart a smartphone may be somewhat easy to some people, but tearing down a DSLR is another thing altogether. The latest stunt from iFixit is just what we said, tearing down a DSLR from Nikon. The latest victim is Nikon’s latest D5100, which was just launched last week. Usually when we see teardowns from iFixit, most of them only involved heat guns, but this time, they also went to desolder some wires. According to the crew, the camera is very hard to disassemble, even went as far as saying that “approximately 4 billion screws hold the device together”. If you’re interested in looking at the organs of the DSLR being tear apart step by step and see what’s inside a DSLR, then hit the link below for some fun provided by iFixit.

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Verizon has finally announced the HTC Droid Incredible 2, and it’ll be available this coming Thursday, April 28th, that is tomorrow. This is essentially the 4-inch HTC with a super LCD and a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and an 8-Megapixel camera with a dual LED flash and a 1.3-Megapixel front facing camera. Sounds familiar? That’s the Incredible S, but runs on CDMA. Of course, when compared with the Thunderbolt, this will be eating dust hugely due to the lack of LTE support. Yours for only $200 with a 2-years contract, but I can’t see why people will want this instead of the Thunderbolt.

Looks like Samsung’s mighty Super AMOLED Plus will soon see a new rival in this elite market of super slim and super light and less reflective LCDs. Toshiba has stepped into this demanding market with its as-yet-unnamed technology seeks improvement in a roughly similar way to Super AMOLED, by fusing the capacitive touch layer and LCD. In so doing, Toshiba claims it can produce an integrated panel just 1mm thick, which it says is less than half the thickness of a conventional LCD touchscreen. Weight is also said to be half and surface reflection is said to be reduced by 10-percent. Hopefully a head-to-head comparison between this unnamed technology and Samsung’s best and meanest will surface soon so that we can compare, and complain. The screen is said to be demonstrated next month over at LA, so until next month then.

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LG has been battling hard with its home grown arch rival Samsung in almost everything. Their latest bragging right is the already-in-market dual-core Optimus 2X and Optimus 3D Android smartphones, and the mighty Optimus Pad tablet.

However, there is a problem with them. The processors powering them are not made by LG themselves, instead provided by Nvidia for the Optimus 2X and Optimus Pad, and by Texas Instruments for the Optimus 3D, making LG a huge step behind its strongest rival Samsung, who is producing its own dual-core SoC.

Now that they’ve identified the problem, LG stepped up the game by buying its own ARM license, which is specifically for the Cortex-A9 design that is dominating today and the Cortex-A15 with Mali-T604 graphics that promises to rule the mobile world from 2012 onwards — and start churning out its own processors shortly after.

Since LG has the ability to manufacture their own processors too, the rivalry will heat up even more in South Korea, and in the global market of handheld devices.

Easter was in the mood last weekend, and it seemed that Acer is also infected with the Easter culture. The Taiwanese company has updated its Aspire One Happy netbook lineup with a quartet of edible colors: Blueberry Shake, Banana Cream, Papaya Milk and Strawberry Yogurt. Those vibrant shells will have the innards of the still-unreleased Acer One D257, including a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N570 dual-core processor, along with the usual 10.1-inch display, 2GB memory, 250GB hard drive, and a six-cell battery. And yes, there will be 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth, and Windows 7 Starter. No word yet on availability and pricing, but I’m sure it’ll arrive on our shores shortly.

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It started off as a little simple digital reader, but now this Barnes & Noble Nook Color has been turned into a proper and full fledge tablet. B&N has just given an update to their Nook Color E-Reader and this time it’s a Froyo update. Yes, the tablet’s getting flash web browsing, downloads, Android games, even email integrations. This is a workable tablet.

Then again, this is heavily customized by B&N. This is not an all-out transformation to Froyo tablet. You still don’t get access to the market and Google Maps and even Gmail, instead all these are customized apps, and developers will need a special SDK from B&N in order to develop apps for Nook Color.

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Are you ready for another round of epic blue alien battle with the force of Terran? The superstar director of Avatar and Titanic, James Cameron, has been on a shopping spree lately, but he’s not getting some bunch of LV bags, he’s getting 50 units of epicly advance RED EPIC-M cameras that are capable of super high resolutions of 5k. Each of these hand-machined professional cameras cost $58,000. There’s no word whether James Cameron is buying these for which movies, but looking at previous reports that the upcoming Avatar 2 is due in end of 2014 makes it hard to ignore which project he’s into right now.

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