iFixit upgraded its Revelation Kit transparent back panel for the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S last week, adding a white option and making it more durable.
The kit, which currently sells for $29.95, includes the transparent panel, two Phillips screws (to replace Apple’s pentalobe ones), screwdrivers (Philips and pentalobe), and a set of screen protectors. The panel itself can be purchased on its own for $24.95, but if this is the first time cracking open your iPhone, you’ll need a pentalobe screwdriver at home to install it.
iPhone 4 owners will need to choose between either the GSM (AT&T) or CDMA (Verizon) versions.
The panel looks good, but sadly it’s not a perfect fit. It sits just a bit too high, leaving some extra metal showing at the bottom. That won’t be a dealbreaker for most, but it will bother some (you know who you are).
Even though I’m not much of a tinkerer when it comes to my iPhone, installation was easy. Simply use the included screwdriver to take out the two screws on the bottom, slide the back panel out, slip the transparent one in and replace the screws.
I normally keep a case on my phone, so removing it to show off my phone’s guts makes it feel doubly naked. The new Revelation Kit is more durable, so that’s a plus, and I could aways switch to a bumper.
Update: iFixit is offering a $5 coupon code (TNWREVELATION) for up to 500 TNW readers. The code is good for any purchase on iFixiom .
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Geeksphone teases the Revolution, a high-end smartphone that can run either Android or Firefox OS
Geeksphone , the first company to bring a Firefox OS smartphone to market, is today teasing a new high-end handset called the Revolution .
The Spanish startup is tight-lipped at the moment, but we know that it will run either Android or Firefox OS. Advanced users will also be able to install Mozilla’s mobile operating system as a ROM on the Android build, GigaOM reports .
Geeksphone says it’ll be a premium device with a high-performance processor. “Once again we will revolutionize the world of mobile network,” Javier Agüera, the company’s co-founder said. “We are also confident that we will surprise everyone by its very high performance and it’s very competitively priced”.
Any customer that pre-ordered the Peak+ , the latest version of its Peak Firefox OS smartphone, will be upgraded to the Revolution automatically. According to GigaOM, this is because the company ran into a number of problems with its supply chain in Asia, which it says would have been “impossible to avoid.”
A teaser site for the Revolution has gone live, but it’s devoid of any useful information right now. Still, a high-end device that could potentially run both Android and Firefox OS ? The Revolution would be a versatile and unique tool for developers, if nothing else.
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