First Teardown of New iPad Underway, Reveals Samsung Retina Display
Earlier today, we noted that iFixit was on hand for an early midnight launch of the new iPad at a Telstra retail store in Melbourne, Australia, and the teardown experts are now beginning the process of opening up the device to examine its internals.
A number of the parts appeared in leaks leading up to the device's introduction, but the teardown will offer the first confirmation of details on what is included inside the new iPad and reveal some of the additional parts such as the cameras and battery that had not been seen in leaks.
Among the details revealed so far:
- The display appears to be manufactured by Samsung. Samsung has been claimed to be the sole supplier of displays for the initial batch of new iPads, although LG and Sharp are expected to come on board shortly as they catch up from quality control issues in their production.
- The new iPad packs a Broadcom BCM4430 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth chip. As with a number of other recent Apple product releases, the new iPad supports low-power Bluetooth 4.0.
- The A5X system-on-a-chip carries a manufacturing date code of the first week in January.
We'll be updating this post as iFixit continues its meticulous dissection of the new iPad.
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