The Kindle Fire is Amazon's latest tablet, with a 7"-multi-touch display and a dual-core processor. It also has 512MB RAM and 8GB of internal storage, along with Wi-Fi networking and a tweaked Android operating system.
But what's inside this elusive device? Courtesy of those fantastic device strippers at iFixit, we can now see.
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The device itself is simple in design, made up of multiple pieces, unlike the iPad which is one unibody device. But nevertheless, it is a strong, sturdy device.
It has three ports at the bottom: a 3.5mm headphone jack, but the device itself lacks hardware volume controls, as well as a micro-USB port for charging and data transfer, and the power button on the end.
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This image shows the display controller being freed from the motherboard, as the device-strippers continue to rip out the very innards that make the Kindle Fire what is is.
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The giant green section is the motherboard of the Kindle Fire, which houses all the chips and memory needed to make the device function. The grey area is where the battery once remained. The iFixit chaps are using a PH#0 screwdriver to remove the screws from that hold the motherboard in place.
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Now that the motherboard is free, you can see (left to right):
Yellow: Texas Instruments fully-integrated power management IC with switch-mode charger.
Orange: Hynix mobile DDR2 RAM.
Green: Texas Instruments FlatLink 10-135Mhz transmitter
Red: Samsung 6GB flash memory.
Blue: Jorjin WLAN (802.11b/g/n) -- Bluetooth -- FM combo chip.
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On the flip side of the device, you can see (left to right):
Purple: Texas Instruments low-power audio codec with a 1.3 stereo class-D speaker amplifer.
Black: Texas Instruments 5-bit dual-supply bus transceiver
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Underneath the Jorjin cover, there appears to be a Texas Instruments wireless-networking chip, to allow the device to send and receive Wi-Fi data over 802.11 b, g and faster-n.
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Only one screw holds the power control board in place. The only button that is on the device allows the device to be turned on and off, or simply to tell the device to sleep. iFixit has a brilliant humour in what one should do and not do when telling the device 'to do something'.
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