The teardown artists at iFixit give both new devices high marks for repairability but low scores for oomph.
Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD 6 has been out for about a month now, but the folks at iFixit only recently opened it up and poked around inside. The verdict from the teardown site: Amazon’s mini-tablet gets high marks for repairability but low scores for oomph.
The iFixit team doubled up on this Particular teardown session, also popping open Amazon’s seventh-generation Kindle ebook reader.
“Though differently purposed, the two Kindles are similarly built, and share the same repair wins and woes ?? easy opening procedures get you a strongly glued-in batteries, but Their clean, modular designs are otherwise very easy to work with,” iFixit reported. “Each Kindle received a solid eight out of this on our Repairability Scale. Lack of available replacement parts has limited repair options in other Kindle models, we can only hope These models do not share the same fate.”
So what’s inside These two new devices from the online retail giant? First, here are the main chips iFixit found in the $ 99 Android-based Kindle Fire HD 6:
- MediaTek MT8135V Applications Processor
- SK Hynix DDR3L H5TC4G63AFR 512 MB SDRAM (two ICs for 1 GB)
- Toshiba THGBMBG6D1KBAIL 8GB e-MMC NAND Flash
- ICC MT6628TP Wi-Fi / Bluetooth Controller
- ANX3618 SlimPort Connectivity IC
- MAX97236 Maxim Integrated Audio Amplifier with Jack Detection
And here are the notable parts inside the $ 79 Amazon Kindle (2014) e-reader:
- Freescale Semiconductor MCIMX6L7DVN10AB Applications Processor
- Elpida B2432BCPE-8D-F DDR2 Mobile RAM
- SanDisk iNAND eMMC SDIN7DP2-4G Ultra 4 GB NAND Flash
- Atheros AR6803G-BL3B WLAN Controller
- Maxim Integrated MAX77696A Power Management Integrated Circuit
- zforce Neonode NN1001 Single Chip Optical Touch Controller
- Texas Instruments MSP430G2 Ultra Low Power Microcontroller
For more, check out PCMag’s hands on video with the Kindle Fire HD 6 and our full review of the Amazon Kindle (2014).
No comments:
Post a Comment