The Samsung Galaxy S IV Gets Dismantled Minutes Before it's Announced

The Galaxy S4 appears to be making a run for the title of most-leaked device in recent memory. Following multiple rumors and photos, a user has posed an entire teardown of what looks like a Chinese variant of Samsung's next Galaxy phone. The pictures appear to confirm a number of rumors — most notably, a picture of the processor shows the device is indeed powered by the company's new 8-core Exynos 5 Octa processor (model number 5410). There looks to be a 13-megapixel camera as well, and this particular variant has two SIM card slots — just like the Chinese variant of the Galaxy Note 2. The source, which leaked the teardown pictures onto Chinese siteIT168, looks to be the same as the one that revealed some of the first full photos of the device, and the specs revealed there appear to match up. It'll only be a bit longer to get the official word from Samsung. Our Broadcast starts in 5 mins here.

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Surface Teardown Surprises

The Surface slate is a marvellous piece of kit, manufactured by the Redmond based company Microsoft and created to blend a laptop and a tablet together so we can get the best of both worlds. It has just been released to the market, and iFixit has acquired its own unit to perform one of their trademark teardowns. Most of the device's specifications were already well known, but iFixit gives us a deeper look at the Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU the 31.5Wh Samsung-built battery that offers more watt-hours than the iPad 2 but less than the third generation's 42.5Wh battery and dual Wi-Fi antennas. Samsung is also the provider of the flash used for storage and the screen.

By design, tablets aren't repair friendly, so it comes as no surprise that the tablet's digitiser and LCD screen are one unit, getting access to some of the components is not an easy task. Many parts are a module or held together by removable screws, iFixit states that it is significantly more repairable than the competition's tablets, namely the Apple iPad — or the recent MacBook Apple computers with the Retina display — iFixit writes that it does not beat the Nexus 7 though. Regardless of your knowledge in IT or you interest in the latest devices, make your way to the iFixit website, it's very interesting to see the guts of one of the first devices to employ the new Windows RT.

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