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Pop! Off comes a connector, and the speaker assembly is free.

The Nexus 7's speakers might not be quite the caliber of the Q, but there is already talk of speaker docks to come.

Although the official Nexus page says there's a speaker in the back, we clearly see a pair of drivers.

Although it looks like caution tape, the I/O cable isn't stopping us from digging in deeper.

A few more screwdriver twists and the two part I/O set is out.

The Nexus 7 I/O set houses a standard 3.5mm headphone jack and USB port.

The L-shaped motherboard is littered with connectors and screws, but nothing too difficult for our Pro Tech Toolkit.

We are guessing that this number is not the date code on expired milk, but rather a part manufacture date. It reads 12 05 04, indicating a May 4, 2012.

The Nexus 7 comes stacked with 1 GB of Hynix H5TC2G83CFR DDR3 RAM, the same model found in the MacBook Pro with Retina Display.

This isn't the "in case of emergency" kind of seal to break, but we broke it anyway to get the motherboard out.

Out comes the 1.2 MP front-facing camera.

Much like the Kindle Fire, the Nexus 7 contains no rear-facing camera. It does, however, contain a front-facing one for video chatting.

Is the absence of a rear-facing camera that big of a deal for a tablet? That depends. Do you want to look silly taking pictures with it?

We are eager to get to that motherboard, but it seems we have another goodie to pull off it first.

Seated on the top left of the motherboard is one of the two microphones.

One of the new features in Jelly Bean is improved voice recognition. Is it as good as Siri? Will it remind you to put the gazpacho on ice? We would tell you the answers to these questions, but the microphone probably doesn't do us much good in its current state.

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Here she is, the motherboard:

• NVIDIA T30L Tegra 3 processor
• Hynix HTC2G83CFR DDR3 RAM
• Max 77612A inverting switching regulator
• AzureWave AW-NH665 wireless module
• Broadcom BCM4751 integrated monolithic GPS receiver
• NXP 65N04 Integrated NFC Chip
• Invensense MPU-6050 gyro and accelerometer