The teardown pros at iFixit have taken apart the Amazon Kindle Fire HD and located it s a simply designed, easily repairable tablet created using mostly off-shelf-parts and just a couple of custom components.
Still, iFixit scores the fireplace HD as slightly less repairable compared to original Fire tablet, having a 7 from 10 score (10 to be the simplest to correct), lower from this past year s Fire s 8 from 10 score. The Fireplace HD s iFixit score matches those of the Nexus 7, our preferred 7-inch tablet.
Two unique products iFixit found within the Fire HD really are a metal enclosure around the battery (likely there to avoid any electrical harm to nearby internals and also to then add structural support) along with a custom plastic frame for that tablet s dual-speaker system-up. Most things are easily accessible, replace when the rear situation is sprang off utilizing a plastic opening tool.
The battery arrives easily, regardless of the shield, since you will find no glues to carry it in position.�Amazon obtains it with only four Phillips #00 screws and something T5 Torx screw. Like the majority of phones and pills, battery was the biggest component within the Fire HD, then the system board. Holding the system board in position is a bit of copper tape that, while simple to remove, is tough to re-adhere, based on iFixit.
With a few careful make use of a shaver we could peel in the copper tape since the primary processor, iFixit stated in the teardown. The copper tape enables the processor to dissipate warmth, but is much more problematic to get rid of than the usual good ol fashioned warmth sink.
Going for a page from Apple s hard-to-repair book of design, the fireplace HD s beautiful 1280 x 800 Liquid crystal display is fused towards the front glass and plastic frame, meaning you ll need to replace both components together, iFixit stated. This move unquestionably assisted the fireplace HD achieve its 10.3-millimeter slimness, although while compromising reparability.
In another space-saving move, Amazon . com placed the fireplace HD s CPU under its 1GB of RAM a design trick seen around the first Fire tablet. Oddly enough enough, Amazon . com clocks the brand new tablet s processor at 1.2 GHz, but iFixit reviews that Texas Instruments clocks the OMAP 4460 dual-core processor at 1.5 GHz. Regardless, the twin-core chipset is really a step-up in the first Fire s single-core Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 processor, that is a lower-powered form of the fireplace HD s dual-core processor.
Amazon . com Amazon Kindle Fire HD Teardown [iFixit]
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