The hottest new tablet?
That would be the Amazon Kindle Fire. The e-retailer has already upped manufacturing orders twice to 5 million, and many are already saying the Fire will be the iPad’s first real competition.
And with all this buzz, iFixit has decided to give the Fire its signature teardown treatment.
So what’s inside the Fire? Chips from Texas Instrument, Samsung and Hynix. The device’s insides also resembled the Blackberry Playbook’s — down to the Texas Instrument processor. Deconstructing the Fire was easy, making the tablet easy to repair. Says iFixit:
In case you were interested in tearing apart your own Fire, here are more photos of the process.
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