Kindle 2 Teardown
Teardown
Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions.
Our Kindle 2 shipped on Monday, February 23rd, a day early. Thanks to UPS Next Day Air, we have the reader in our hands Tuesday morning.
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Size comparison: Definitely not as big as a 17" MacBook Pro Unibody.
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The Kindle 2 weighs only 10.2 ounces. Per pound, that makes the Kindle 2 even more expensive than the $2,799 MacBook Pro 17" Unibody we took apart last week.
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The back. Nothing special about it.
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Note the speaker holes on the bottom. We briefly tried the Text-to-Speech feature and were very impressed by the Kindle 2's ability to read the text displayed on-screen. But the honeymoon was quickly over and we started tearing into it.
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Hopefully the insides will be more exciting... We'll let you know as soon as we can!
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Prying the back off...
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Getting inside is easy once you know how. We used some plastic opening tools and a metal spudger, and finally managed to get in.
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The matte-gray top cover comes off first.
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There are two Phillips screws to remove before the Aluminum back can be removed entirely.
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Remove two Phillips screws and the battery lifts out easily.
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The battery is Model No. S11S01A. It's a 3.7 V, 1530 mAh lithium polymer battery. The battery weighs in at 31 grams, just over 10% of the Kindle's total weight.
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The wireless card is also easily removable by removing two Phillips screws.
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There are two antenna ports on the wireless card, but there was nothing connected to the AUX port in our Kindle.
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After removing sixteen more screws, we've made it to the main PCB.
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Everything exciting is still beneath silver EMI shields.
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The Kindle was designed by Lab126, a secretive Amazon subsidiary based in Cupertino that designs consumer devices. Thus far, they have only released the Kindle 1 and 2.
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