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Five pressure contacts on the headphone jack press against the gold pads attached to the camera board to exchange data.

The speaker is held in place by the pressure of the two case halves when they are locked together, so at this point it can be simply lifted out of the Droid 2.

• The speaker looks to be the same model as the one in the original Droid.

The gold sticker applied to the speaker housing is a cleverly placed antenna.

This Droid 2 opening tool gets a workout disconnecting the antenna, display data ribbon cable, and power/volume button ribbon cable from the motherboard.

After removing the screws securing the motherboard to the phone and disconnecting the keypad ribbon cable on the opposite side, the motherboard is finally free from Droid 2.

The motherboard assembly stands alone in all its glory.

The camera board is actually a separate circuit board that can be easily removed from the motherboard.

Awww man, all those chip covers are soldered down. You think that's going to stop us?

Big players on the front of the motherboard include:

• Qualcomm QSC6085 CDMA Processor
• Elpida K4332C1PD-50-F - 512MB Mobile DDR3 RAM for the OMAP3630.
• TI OMAP 3630 is secreted underneath the Elpida package (thanks Chipworks!).
• Numonyx NANDA9R4N4 NAND/DRAM package that supports the QSC6085 CDMA processor. DRAM is most likely for the camera processor, while the NAND may be holding software for functions like the GPS.
• AKM 8973N 019A Compass
• S202 7927 microphone

  • This secondary microphone picks up background noise and helps cancel it for clearer calls.

Back of motherboard:

• SanDisk SDIN4C2 8 GB NAND flash
• TriQuint TQM613029 CDMA PA-Duplexer Module
• Avago FEM-7758 CDMA Front End Module
• TI 51001582002 Power management IC
• TI WL1271B WLAN Bluetooth/FM chip
• ST G 40N 025
• Unidentified OST chip

The Droid 2's 5 MP rear-facing camera with dual-LED flash supports DVD-quality video recording at 6 more FPS than the original Droid - 30 fps vs. 24 fps.

Yet the camera board doesn't look all too different than the one equipped on the original Droid.