There's only a hour difference in quoted battery life between LTE and WiFi so I doubt that's the reason. A brighter backlight for the Retina display seems like the most obvious answer.
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Teardown of New iPad Reveals Samsung Retina Display, Qualcomm MDM9600 Wireless Chip
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There's only a hour difference in quoted battery life between LTE and WiFi so I doubt that's the reason. A brighter backlight for the Retina display seems like the most obvious answer.
It's amusing to read their comments while this teardown is happening. IFixIt is really cracking me up.
Well since it has the Broadcom BCM4330 does this mean we could conceivably have FM Radio in the future ?
"The Broadcom BCM4330 single chip device provides the highest level of integration for a mobile or handheld wireless system, with integrated IEEE 802.11 a/b/g and single-stream 802.11 n (MAC/baseband/radio), Bluetooth 4.0+HS, and FM radio receiver and transmitter."
"The Broadcom BCM4330 single chip device provides the highest level of integration for a mobile or handheld wireless system, with integrated IEEE 802.11 a/b/g and single-stream 802.11 n (MAC/baseband/radio), Bluetooth 4.0+HS, and FM radio receiver and transmitter."
Even the backlight itself is LED, which practically uses no power.
Remember that the first iPad used about 2 Watts per hour. This one about 4.
I think it's more the actual pixels/gpu than the backlight.
The nerds are waiting for the "hawt" blond with the braces to show it all!
(What's in her ipad that is)
$#$ it all seems to come out wrong uuurgh, even that.....
I'm with ya - it's too bad. As far as laminating large displays, I believe some of Sony's more premium HDTV LCD panels use a similar process...
ifixit.com sells toolsets themselves - usually the required tools are linked to in the teardown/repair guides:
http://www.ifixit.com/Tools/Heavy-duty-Suction-Cups-Pair/IF145-023
http://www.ifixit.com/Tools/Pro-Tec...t&utm_term=if145-072&utm_content=product_link
Yeah why don't ipod touches and iphones support fm radio? If my (former) crappy android phone can give me fm radio the iphone should be able to. I'd use it when I'm at work and don't have access to wifi. can't stream FM radio over 3G all day.
Any confirmation of this? It would be nice if they could pull the heat spreader off the A5X so we could get a rough estimate of its die size. Hopefully it's not 45nm, otherwise the new iPad might be burning up something other than just mobile OpenGL benchmarks :\
See poster above
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iFixit actually sells them
http://www.ifixit.com/Tools/Heavy-duty-Suction-Cups-Pair/IF145-023
If you search for any TV or display repair tools, theres a number of suppliers.
Edit: the Toshiba chip on the A5X side of the mainboard is probably the NAND. Not sure what those chips are. Isn't the A5X RAM supposed to be on-die? Is this evidence that Apple moved the RAM off-die since they manufactured it at 45nm and ran out of room?
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Are these the same nerds that love to bash Samsung?
The ones that said all those nasty remarks?
How funny
Not seeing the Qualcomm MDM9600 that Anandtech said would be in there. I see the Qualcomm RTR8600 multi-band/mode RF transceiver for LTE bands.
Yes, that was speculation. The RTR8600 is about a year old. No wonder they didn't put it into the iPhone 4S (it would have had a bad effect on battery life). I guess the 28nm chips weren't ready on time.