Palm’s Pre and Touchstone products both caused quite a splash when they dropped a few hours ago – unfortunately, Sprint’s tech staff will not be able to repair either of them on-site. This seems to be nonsensical to at least some extent – let the two teardown videos below be your proof:
RapidRepair: Pre tear-down
The link above takes you to a tear-down guide for the Palm Pre – the ten or so steps sound fairly easy. Accompanying press materials claimed a bill of materials of about 170$…
iFixit Touchstone tear-down
iFixit has torn down the Touchstone charger, and originally claimed a bill of materials of just 5$. While the latter figure has since disappeared from the web site, the guide still is online – hit the link above for a more thorough look…
iFixit Pre teardown
iFixit furthermore couldn’t resist the temptation to launch a teardown of their own – the four pages make for very interesting reading…
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