LOOK INSIDE (PART 2): Apple's New iPad 3 4G dismantled into pieces

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After we saw whats inside the HP's All-In-One yesterday. Its time now to look inside the Apple iPad. All of us would have seen a Apple iPad. But... have you seen what's inside the iPad.

Here it is....


A Look at the inside of APPLE iPad 3 4G

STEP 1: The iPad
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STEP 2: Tools Required
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STEP 3: The Rear
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STEP 4: The 5MP Camera
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STEP 5: Some heat from the heat gun to melt the gum that holds the screen and guitar picks to hold it apart
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STEP 6: Heavy duty suction cups helps to lift the top glass panel
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STEP 7: A screw here and a screw there - here it comes the Super-Amazing 3,145,728 Pixels Retina Display
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STEP 8: Its time to spudge the display connectors
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STEP 9: The Display Panel seperated -- Interestingly the model numbers reveal its a SAMSUNG display
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STEP 10: The Display Panel out what next -- The Logic Board
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STEP 11: The Logic Board removed out of iPad
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STEP 12: So, what we got in the Logic Board
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Dark Orange: Texas Instruments CD3240 driver device
Light Orange: Broadcom BCM4330 802.11a/b/g/n MAC/baseband/radio with integrated Bluetooth 4.0+HS and FM transceiver
Yellow:2 x 4Gb Elpida LP DDR2 = 1 GB DRAM in separate packages in a 64-bit configuration
Sky Blue: Fairchild FDMC 6683
Dark Blue: Broadcom BCM5973 I/O controller
Pink: Broadcom BCM5974 microprocessor
Black: Apple 338S0987 (Cirrus Logic audio codec)

STEP 13: Look at the other end of the Logic Board
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Dark Orange: Qualcomm PM8028 Power Management IC
Light Orange: Qualcomm RTR8600 multi-band/mode RF transceiver for 3G and 4GLTE bands
Yellow: Toshiba Y0A0000 Memory MCP
Sky Blue: Triquint TQM7M5013 quad-band linear power amplifier module
Dark Blue: Avago A5904
Pink: Skyworks SKY77468-17 front-end module

STEP 14: So where's the Processor - well its on the completely other side of the Logic Board
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Dark Orange: Apple A5X processor
Light Orange: Apple 343S0561 - This IC looks like an updated version of the 343S052 that we found in the iPad 2, and is used for power management.
Yellow: The NAND, part number THGVX1G7D2GLA08 is a 16 GB 24 nm MLC Flash from Toshiba
Sky Blue: Qualcomm MDM9600 - 3G and 4G wireless modem
Dark Blue: Skyworks 77469
Pink: Avago A7792

STEP 15: The Processor cover removed
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STEP 16: Removing the Giant sized Battery
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While the iPad 2 housed a formidable 25 watt-hour Li-ion battery, the iPad 3 has upped the ante to the tune of 42.5 watt-hours. Each separate cell lists its rating of 3.78 volts and 14.60 watt-hour.

STEP 17: Lets remove the Dock Connectors
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STEP 18: A look at the micro-SIM card slot
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The iPad 3 4G has a user-accessible micro-SIM card slot that can be ejected with the help of a handy SIM card eject tool.

STEP 19: The wireless Antennas - One of them has the Headphone jack built to it
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STEP 20: Say CHEESE - The 5MP rear Camera followed by the front faciing camera
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STEP 21: Speaker Assembly
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STEP 22: Buttons and Switches we use on the outer panel
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STEP 23: Say Bye to the iPad
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WoW... It looks awesome from both outside & inside... Thanks Madhan bro for sharing such a nice info... :sp
 
Amazing post.. It really looks great.. I gathered here useful and nice information.. Keep sharing like this. Thanks!!
 
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