New samsung Universe S III teardown exposed

Okay, so after months and months of hype – quite possibly even too much hype – the Samsung Galaxy S III is finally a known quantity. Of course there are some details that still have yet to be sewn up, but at least we’re no longer holding our breath trying to figure out every little thing like if it’s the Galaxy S III or the Galaxy S3. The one thing we really want to see, though, is what’s really inside.

Enter iFixIt, one of the most popular resources for information about all the inner workings of the latest electronic devices. Apparently it was pretty easy for the folks over there to dig into it since the only things holding the phone together were standard screws. On the face of it, it’s very similar to the Galaxy S II and the Galaxy Nexus.

However, there are a lot of components inside the frame that sits right below the motherboard. It also looks like the construction of the device is pretty easily understood, making it likely pretty easy to perform repairs and troubleshoot mechanical problems. In addition, this means that hardware modifications probably won’t present much of a problem.

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From the Android version OpenSignalMaps found nearly 4,000

If you look at all the different ways people can modify their Android software and all the various kinds of hardware and operating systems, do you know how many different platforms you’ll find? Apparently, there are nearly 4,000 “distinct” Android devices in the wild right now. You read that right – four thousand. You think iOS has that many?

 

That data came from a company called OpenSignalMaps, which has collected information from 681,900 Android devices through its app. So what this means is that of those 680,000+ devices, there are 3,997 that are unique. The most popular one, for example, is the Samsung Galaxy S II, with 61,389 people owning that phone and running the same version of Android.

So how are there so many? “One complication is that custom ROMs can overwrite the android.build.MODEL variable that we use for the device model,” the company noted. As a matter of fact, “A staggering 1,363 device models appear only once in our database.” If you drill down to the main factor, the main version number, Android seems to be more fragmented than ever. The most common version of the OS is Gingerbread, but even as the #1 version, it’s only powering 55.4% of devices.

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