Nexus Q teardown explores ‘Made in the USA’ claim

Although Google beat them to the punch, the tech wizards at iFixit remain unfazed, posting their own teardown of Mountain View’s "Made in the USA" Nexus Q media streamer. Google isn’t claiming each and every chip inside the Q was built on American soil, but if you’re interested in which parts were built where, the team takes a lot of effort to point out most of their likely origins (spoiler: the 16GB of flash storage could either have been produced in South Korea or Texas). The iFixit team scored the OMAP 4460-powered sphere’s repairability an 8 out of a possible 10, praising it for its easy-to-remove cover and general lack of solder. With some of the most interesting industrial design we've seen in a while, we could have scored the Q similarly — if it weren't for niggling problems like bugginess and lack of functionality.