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IPad 2 Wi-Fi Teardown
- zdw 16y agoSo, the only thing preventing the iPhone 4 or either iPad from being an FM radio receiver is software? a suitable antenna? I doubt it's Apple policy, as the iPod Nano has FM and basic radio timeshifting capabilities
- nirmal 16y agoOf note, the Nano uses the earbud cable as the antenna.
- nasirkorma 16y agoI'd love to know the weight of the battery and the glass display.
- light3 16y agoImagine how thin and light it could be if batteries were not required.
- cloudwalking 16y agoAtomic isotope? Would be even worse for tech waste, but imagine the 'battery' life. 25 years...
- biot 16y agoIdeally you'd have a removable power module which you can take from device to device... a "zap drive". Brought to you by the US Nucleics Corporation.
- light3 16y agoThey can be shaped as coins and become a new currency, it glows green when fully charged. Devices(including cars) have coin slots to take in power.
- Herring 16y agoSpoken like a true geek. Normal people don't want to know that such things even exist. Let machines with radiation detectors track them down in the dumpsters.
- axisofevil 16y agoSo would I. I'd love to know what percentage of the iPad 2's weight is the battery and glass.
- icco 16y agoYour best bet is to post a comment on the teardown if this hasn't been added yet.
- dr_ 16y agoand the point of this is?
- icco 16y agoI work for the company, so color me a little bias, but the point of these teardowns has always been threefold. First, learn about hardware design. See how a company was able to make the latest cool new device. Second, some people are interested in only buying devices that they can repair. This teardown showed that it would be damn hard to repair most parts in this. Third, people want to know about how green the device is, and what other companies Apple is using for chips, etc. Hope that explains. If it doesn't just chalk it up to to the fact that the same people who like reading engadget tend to like iFixit's teardowns. Gadget lust if you will.
- biot 16y agoFourfold: advertising impressions. Presumably that's why the article went up tonight rather than spending time doing more research into availability of parts and so on which would be required if people were truly interested in a device they can repair. :)
- cloudwalking 16y agoAvailability of parts will probably be in line with the previous iPad, and will most likely come from iFixit themselves. iFixit is known for providing teardowns soon after product releases--I don't see anything wrong with that.
- power78 16y agoExcept for the fact that they force us college students at Cal Poly to do their tech write-ups for our Technical Writing class. iFixit is filled with a bunch of losers. Sorry for being blunt, but half their "how to"s are written by college students forced to make them for our grade.
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- zwieback 16y agoAnyone know what kind of drop tests these devices are subjected to? For our industrial handheld devices we need to survive 6ft on concrete multiple times and end up potting connectors and stuff like that. I don't see anything like that in the iPad.
- joezydeco 16y agoWe also don't see the iPad marketed as an industrial device.