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This brilliant GIF shows how your iPhone gets assembled piece by piece

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We’ve gotten so used to smartphones in our lives that we don’t realize just what incredible feats of engineering they really are. PhoneArena has spotted an incredible new GIF made by an anonymous imgur user that quickly shows all of the components that you find in an iPhone 5s that need to be assembled to make a finished device. The GIF starts out with just the basic iPhone frame and then rapidly adds parts such as its camera, its A7 system on a chip and its battery one by one, showing how all of them overlap and fit together in the device’s tiny frame. Be sure to check it out below because it will give you a new appreciation of just how incredible smartphone engineering really is.

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Cheap third-party chargers could kill your iPhone

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It’s true what they say about getting what you pay for, especially when it comes to electronics. The team of repair specialists at mendmyi in the UK have recently been receiving far more iPhone 5 repairs than they are used to. Every iPhone 5 owner had the same complaint: the device wouldn’t recharge after the battery died. The screen wouldn’t even light back up.

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Could the Fire Phone be an even bigger dud than HTC’s Facebook phone?

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When T-Mobile CEO John Legere this week brutally compared Amazon’s Fire Phone to the HTC First, was he being optimistic? In a new video, popular YouTube gadget reviewer Marques Brownlee makes the case that the Fire Phone really might be as big of a dud as HTC’s Facebook-centric phone and might actually do worse because of Amazon’s pricing decisions.

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TODAY’S AWESOME FREE APPS: 5 great paid iPhone apps that are free for a limited time

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Friday… what better day is there to enjoy some awesome paid apps that have just been made available for free for a limited time? To be fair, every day is a good day for an app sale, and we try to point out great apps that go one sale as often as we can. Today we have some particularly nifty options for you and as always, if you see anything that looks appealing you should click through the download link and grab it as soon as you can. These are all limited-time sales and there’s no telling when they’ll be over.

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The most HILARIOUS thing you’ll see today: Elderly people react to Google Glass

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Young people seem to be having enough trouble wrapping their heads around the possibility that devices like Google Glass may someday be ubiquitous, so you can guess how the elderly feel. Imagine having grown up in a world where personal computing didn’t exist, and then seeing a device like Google Glass hit the market.

Well, thanks to the Fine Brothers, you don’t have to imagine anymore.

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GALAXY NOTE 4 LEAK: Galaxy Note 4’s full specs have been revealed!

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The Galaxy S5 LTE-A – or Galaxy S5 Prime – may only be a South Korea affair, but Samsung is also working on another new flagship Android smartphone with monster specs that the whole world will be able to enjoy. The Galaxy Note 4, expected to be unveiled at IFA 2014 later this year, has apparently been spotted online in benchmark test results, which reveal many details about its hardware.

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Surprise: It turns out there’s a potentially huge security flaw in Android’s app store

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While many argue that Google’s Android malware isn’t a real problem, the fact still remains that apps with malicious capabilities are constantly being discovered. This problem is especially serious in third-party app stores, but it also exists in Google Play, where issues such as the recent app permission change might let developers silently add malicious features to their apps without the user knowing.

On top of that, a new research paper details an even more serious security flaw in Google Play that can be used to expose personal details of users, even if they aren’t using an app.

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