Amazon Fire Phone Teardown Step #8 History

Changes to Step #8

Edit by Jeff Suovanen — Jul 24, 2014

	[* black] Just when we thought we were home free, we hit a snag in the form of a pesky camera cable. This sucker is screwed onto the back of the motherboard.
	[* black] Luckily, with some precision spudging, we pry the rear-facing camera out of its display-assembly cage and soon free it from the motherboard entirely.
-	[* black] This ~~13MP~~, f/2.0 rear-facing camera is central to Amazon's new [http://imgur.com/a/FY4dn\|Firefly\|new_window=true] technology, which if used correctly, can burn holes in your wallet.
+	[* black] This 13 MP, f/2.0, rear-facing camera with OIS is central to Amazon's new [http://imgur.com/a/FY4dn\|Firefly\|new_window=true] technology, which if used correctly, can burn holes in your wallet.
	[* icon_note] Glowing reviews of Firefly rely less on [https://www.ted.com/talks/sara_lewis_the_loves_and_lies_of_fireflies\|bioluminescence\|new_window=true], and more on the image recognition software in the Fire Phone.

	[* black] Just when we thought we were home free, we hit a snag in the form of a pesky camera cable. This sucker is screwed onto the back of the motherboard.
	[* black] Luckily, with some precision spudging, we pry the rear-facing camera out of its display-assembly cage and soon free it from the motherboard entirely.
-	[* black] This ~~13MP~~, f/2.0 rear-facing camera is central to Amazon's new [http://imgur.com/a/FY4dn\|Firefly\|new_window=true] technology, which if used correctly, can burn holes in your wallet.
+	[* black] This 13 MP, f/2.0, rear-facing camera with OIS is central to Amazon's new [http://imgur.com/a/FY4dn\|Firefly\|new_window=true] technology, which if used correctly, can burn holes in your wallet.
	[* icon_note] Glowing reviews of Firefly rely less on [https://www.ted.com/talks/sara_lewis_the_loves_and_lies_of_fireflies\|bioluminescence\|new_window=true], and more on the image recognition software in the Fire Phone.