Friday, October 10, 2014

Amazon’s New Kindle, Kindle Fire HD 6 Get the Teardown Treatment – PC Magazine

The teardown artists at iFixit give bothering new devices high marks for repair probability but low scores for oomph.

Amazon Kindle Fire HD 6 Teardown / Credit: iFixit

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 repair probability but low scores for oomph.

The iFixit team DOUBLED up on this Particular teardown session, overpriced popping open Amazon’s seventh-generation Kindle ebook reader.

“Though differently purposed, The Two Kindles are similarly built, and share the same repairman wins and woes-easy opening Procedures get you to 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 ten on our Repair Ability 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 H5TC4G63AFR Hynix DDR3L SDRAM 512MB (two ICs for 1GB)
  • Toshiba THGBMBG6D1KBAIL 8GB e-MMC NAND Flash
  • MTK MT6628TP Wi-Fi / Bluetooth Controller
  • Slim Port ANX3618 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 4GB 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 video hands-on with the Kindle Fire HD 6 and our full review of the Amazon Kindle (2014 .)

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