Teardown

Saber Interactive Embracer Group confirmed it is selling Saber Interactive to Beacon Interactive on Thursday morning, following rumors of a sale last month. Saber Interactive is a massive company that not only develops games like Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 and Expeditions: A Mudrunner Game but also owns several studios. So, what exactly did Embracer offload? The press release announcing the sale can be a bit tough to parse with all the financial information and corporate terminology found within. We’ve put…

Astek Diagnostics closed a $2 million round for its urine diagnostics system, despite the fact that raising money for medtech isn’t for the faint of heart. The company’s deck has some good stuff in it and could be a deep source for things we can learn from, too. We’re looking for more unique pitch decks to tear down, so if you want to submit your own, here’s how you can do that.  Slides in this deck Astek Diagnostics has a pretty beefy 22-slide deck that splits a lot of the narrative over multiple slides. In some…

Xiaomi 14 Ultra teardownThe Xiaomi 14 Ultra looks identical to its predecessor but there are numerous internal changes.The back panel of the phone can be peeled off easily, with glue coming off easily with the right amount of heat.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEEzeL8KO-UXiaomi 14 Ultra’s back panel has a leather finish similar to the predecessor and this looks quite good. We get a slightly larger motherboard casing. There is the new wireless charging coil and this supports 80W fast charging.There is a larger heat…

The highly anticipated Xiaomi 14 Ultra has made its global debut at MWC 2024 in Barcelona, where all major details about the device are now official. Just after its official global announcement, a white Chinese model of the Xiaomi 14 Ultra has already been dissected and analyzed in a comprehensive teardown video posted on the WekiHome YouTube channel. In the teardown video reveals the individual components and highlights key upgrades compared to its predecessor, the Xiaomi 13 Ultra. Notable improvements include the…

Xiaomi went ahead and unveiled its premiere flagship smartphone for 2024 yesterday and we now have a highly detailed teardown for the 14 Ultra courtesy of WekiHome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEEzeL8KO-U While the 14 Ultra looks similar to its predecessor, it boasts several internal changes. The new flagship boasts a slightly larger motherboard casing. Xiaomi 14 Ultra next to 13 Ultra We also get to see the new wireless charging coil which now supports 80W wireless fast charging provided you have…

It’s a rare startup that tears down its own pitch deck, but that’s exactly what Equals did after it raised a $16 million Series A round. Equals’ mission is not to replace the spreadsheet, but to ensure that a spreadsheet can do whatever its users throw at it. As an inveterate spreadsheet user, this is an approach that I can get behind — I’ve built entire software solutions with extremely complex spreadsheets as the back end. Furthermore, as a pitch deck connoisseur, I can also get behind the bright and bold design of…

When I was a student in the U.K., I remember that renting appliances like washing machines and televisions was the norm for some people, especially students living in short-term accommodations. Israeli startup Xyte (pronounced “excite”) has just raised $30 million, as it sees a return to this sort of hardware-as-a-service model to be the way forward for manufacturers whose margins are under constant pressure. If it works so well for software-as-a-service, why not hardware? Xyte let me take a…

iFixit shared a part 2 video to its Apple Vision Pro teardown which details the key components inside Apple’s first Spatial Computer. Spoiler alert – Apple did some clever marketing tricks with the whole “more than a 4K TV for each eye” claim it made during the Vision Pro announcement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt22M5nWJ4Q The pair of micro OLED screens are each estimated to offer a 3,660 x 3,200 pixel per eye resolution which technically does not fulfill the requirements for 4K resolution which is 3,840 x…

If you ask anyone who’s actually what the best feature is, they’ll likely call out the dual micro-OLED displays. These screens produce especially crisp visuals, and iFixit has taken it upon themselves to find out why. The publication with an emphasis on those glorious displays.The big takeaway? The screens are incredibly pixel-dense, with 12,078,000 pixels smushed into 0.98 square inches. This means that each individual pixel is just 7.5 μm, which makes them Yeah. The ones in our bodies right now.This is much more…

I expected the iFixit teardown to be a series of disappointments regarding repairability, so I was quite relieved to discover that it wasn't entirely doom and gloom.Also: 10 reasons the Apple Vision Pro is secretly brilliant"Repairability-wise, it's not great, but on the plus side, some of the connections are quite delightful. You should have seen our teardown team jump up when they realized that the side arms could be popped out using the SIM-removal tool, for example, and the magnetic cushions are yet more…