iPhone, iPod, iPad, Macbook, Blackberry, Zune, GPS Repair Guide

iPad Repair Services & iPad Teardown Guide

2010-01-29T07:16:29Z

The iPad is driven by Apple’s proprietary 1 GHz A4 chip, designed to be both performant and power efficient, allowing for up to 10h runtime on a full charge. 1024×768 HD video resolution squeezed into a small screen results in 132 pixels per inch, with a 178° viewing angle and the Multi-Touch screen functionality. There are three different flash drives available for the device: 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB. An accelerometer let's you use the iPad like an oversized iPod touch for gaming and fun little apps that interpret accelerometer data.

All models of the iPad come with built-in WiFi, optional for an additional $130 is the 3G modem. The iPad supports Bluetooth 2.1 . Dimensions: The screen is 9.7 inches measured diagonally. The iPad weighs 1.5 pounds and is 0.5 inches thick. A proprietary 30-pin connector on the bottom lets you connect to accessories. The iPad does not come with a built in camera.

iPad Parts available

We repair all models of the Apple iPad for a broken iPad screen, iPad mainboard / logic board, iPad battery, and more.

If you are looking for iPad repair, iPad LCD repair, iPad replacement parts, iPad battery upgrade, iPad memory upgrade, iPad headphone jack replacement go to iPad Repair.

iPad Teardown Guide Comming Soon

Our tear-down guide will show you step by step how to disassemble the Apple iPad. How to remove the iPad screen, how to replace the iPad battery and how to repair a waterdamaged iPad.

Feel free to ask questions about the iPad in our forums: iPad Forums

iPad repair parts are coming up on our site: iPad Repair Service

Motorola DROID - Mini Review

2009-11-16T18:52:35Z

Let's start with the facts :
The DROID is powered by an Arm Cortex A8 CPU, 256MB of CPU RAM, and 512MB of ROM which is comparable to the hardware of the iPhone 3GS, leading to a very responsive user experience : all application opened swiftly with almost no lag upon flipping through pages or scrolling.

The screen has a 3.7 inch diagonal and 480-by-854 pixels, the resolution per square inch is high, allowing good results when reading text or watching video.

The DROID boasts both a virtual and a physical keyboard, both keyboard styles allow great accuracy, the virtual keyboard works so well that some of the virtual keyboard sceptics in our office were so impressed that they ended up using the virtual over the physical one.

Exiting news for those who use their phone as a GPS: the DROID offers turn-by-turn directions through a Google Maps application, that basically mimics the full functionality of a dedicated GPS devices. There really is not longer a need for a addtional GPS device if you have the DROID.

The DROID comes with a 1400mAh battery leading to around a full day of intensive use which is not bad for phone this slim and small given processing power, screen brightness and dimensions.

Microsoft Zune HD - Mini Review

2009-11-16T05:43:35Z

What's interesting about the new Zune HD : it was released a few months after the latest iPod touch, allowing it to actually incorporate a few technological advances that the iPod touch 2nd Gen doesn't offer. For starters, it comes with a 3.3 inch OLED screen - that generates a crisp, bright and high res image. That screen is driven by the Nvidia Tegra GPU offering high resolution video stream decoding that let's you use the Zune HD as a high definition video player with your HDTV.

So why don't all my friends have one? Why don't I seem to want one? If you want to transcend the Apple mainstream, you really should consider the Zune HD. The Zune HD is a great opportunity to exlore the leading edge of media player technology off the beaten Apple path and essentially hold more advanced technology in hands than an iPod touch 2G.

However, that comes at the price of feeling a little bit detached from the wealth of innovation that's happening in the appstore. While there are apps for the Zune, and Zune apps are free, there is no commonly available app-infrastructure for programmers yet, like it has existed for the iPhone and iPod touch for almost two years. You will not have the same range of apps available, but if you are looking for a pretty futuristic media player and don't intend to spend all that much time exploring new apps anyway, the Zune HD is a great option.

Barnes and Noble Nook - Mini Review

2009-11-16T04:12:26Z

Barnes & Noble Inc. is about to deploy its first ebook device, seemingly trying to take a bite of Amazon's market share.

B & N gets into the game relatively late, since Amazon has been selling ebook devices for a while now. It would be fair to say that
it was Amazon that pushed the ebook reader beyond the experimental stage and demonstrated that consumers are really willing
to use ebook readers over paper books for their daily commutes and in the comfort over their homes.

Here are the most prominent innovative aspects about the nook:

-it allows lending purchased books to other nook users
-it has a small color touchscreen at the bottom to select books.

The nook runs on Google's Android and will begin to sell at $259.

For Barnes & Noble the nook will be an opportunity to serve their customers better, thereby hopefully adding some fresh sales to an
otherwise sluggish industry. The nook can also be seen as a portal to a wealth of written media, around a million books are available through Barnes and Noble alone.

That taken into consideration, together with the brick and mortar advantage of Barnes and Noble,
it no longer difficult to imagine that the nook will catch up with the Kindle quickly.

While it may seem to some observers that Barnes and Noble is late to jump onto the band wagon,
ebook readers are still a highly innovative field to operate in, and the nook will still count as
one of pioneers when people will look back onto the history of the ebook reader phenomenon say a decade from now.

Blackberry Storm 2 Repair

2009-11-15T22:17:28Z

Research in Motion just announced the new Blackberry Storm 2 (9520) and we're already here to help if something breaks and you are not covered under any warranties. portatronics announces Blackberry Storm 2 (9520) screen repairs at $279 and with a 1 year warranty. Our new Blackberry Storm 2 Repair guide will come up soon, so the self-install option will be available as well.

Blackberry Storm 2 - The new Blackberry 9520

2009-11-15T22:07:43Z

RIM has deployed a new touchscreen smartphone called Storm 2: the successor to the original Blackberry Storm. Let's start off by talking about some major improvements : the touchscreen has been equipped with an electro-mechanical system which makes it easier to launch applications. This imroved tactile feedback mechanism allows for typing that is both faster and more precise compared to the first Storm. Blackberry went in the same direction with the send and menu button bar: all touch sensors instead of mechanical buttons.

The new Storm finally has Wi-Fi, enabling high speed internet use when a wireless network is available, a feature blatantly missing on the orignial Storm.

Let's talk about the hardware: The memory has been increased 2GB. A microSD 2.0 slot has been added, allowing the use of 32GB microSD card storage devices.

And more importantly, the Storm2 has the new operating system "version 5". In general the Storm2 seems faster, the new OS and processor collaborate seemlessly to provide a swifter, more responsive user experience.

Pushing on the name or email address generates an email dialogue history, a very useful feature, just like the new cut and paste that seems more intutitive to use.

The Storm2 beats the original Storm in many aspects, RIM really listened to the users and created a Storm that will pull those into the boat that liked the concept of the original Storm but were turned off by the mechanical tactile feedback and missing Wi-Fi.