Entertainment Weekly print edition comes with a 'smartphone-like Android device'

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If there's one advantage a [print magazine](http://www.engadget.com/tag/print+media/) still has over an online publication, it's the ability to offer all manner of crazy freebies glued to its pages. [Maybelline samples](http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/04/augmented-reality-mirror-picks-makeup-for-the-ladies-video/), CDROMs packing the latest version of [WinZip](http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/17/winzip-comes-to-ios-doesnt-nag-you-to-register/), or -- in tomorrow's edition of _Entertainment Weekly_ -- something that actually looks pretty enticing. Flick it open to the right page and you'll spot an LCD display that magically displays video ads and _live _Tweets from the CW Network. Intrigued by how such a thing could function, _Mashable _did a teardown (literally) and discovered all the ingredients of a budget Android smartphone, including components which aren't strictly necessary for the task at hand: a 3G modem with T-Mo SIM (which seems to have some degree of voice connectivity), a full-sized battery, USB port and even a partially-built QWERTY keyboard. Suddenly, that [$50 myTouch](http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/07/t-mobile-mytouch-and-mytouch-q-review/) doesn't seem so cheap.

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