IFixit completely disassembled the new iPad Air (photo)

Everyone knows about the team of guys from iFixit, who disassemble the parts for all Apple products. Thanks to their efforts, we will learn how to look like apple gadgets, not only outside but also inside. After all, we, ordinary users, available internal filling devices, so we have to settle for photos entrails new Apple-products.

At this time, iFixit disassembled iPad Air - a new full-sized tablet from Apple, which has become much smaller, thinner and lighter than its predecessor. Interestingly, both from an engineering point of view, kupertinovtsy able to build all the components in such a slim body? And how maintainable appeared new iPad? Let's get a look.

1. Box:

2. The lower end of the device:

3. As always, Apple has not regretted the adhesive to securely lock all components of your device:

4. To hook on all sides:

5. Unscrew the special screws to remove the screen itself:

6. Under the screen is the most legendary battery that provides endless hours of work iPad Air. Battery - 3.7 volts, 32.9 watts / h. In the last model, the battery was at 43 W / h - Apple managed to reduce the size of the battery without reducing (and even increase) the battery life. Excellent:

7. According to Apple, the display specifications of the new iPad is not changed compared to its predecessor. However, the panel itself has become 20% thinner. In our case, it has an integrated display LG:

8. The iPad Air, many internal parts moved straight from the iPad mini, for example, this connector:

9. Carefully remove the front glass. You can see the new cable to the button Home, even though it is not equipped with a sensor Touch ID. It remains only to chip the iPhone 5s, while, anyway ...

10. Again we are fighting with glue - this time, on the back side of the device:

11. We begin removing the entrails from the rear of the iPad Air:

Our guy says, "It is the worst of the complexity of the extraction battery, which I've ever seen ..."

12. Use a little skill to remove the SIM-tray:

13. We continue our quest for the battery pack. And under the motherboard we find the connector that connects the battery and the card. Yes, iPad Air maintainability causing huge doubts ...

14. When you remove this battery creak worse than the door to the house with ghosts.

15. But leave the boring back side of the device, move on to the fun part:

And there waiting for us:

• CPUApple A7 APL5698, slightly different from the A7 APL0698 in iPhone 5s;
• RAM Elpida F8164A1MD 1 GB LPDDR3 SDRAM;
• Flash memory Toshiba THGBX2G7B2JLA01 16 GB NAND;
• Co-processor M7 NXP LPC18A1;
• power management chip Apple 343S0655-A1;
• Wi-Fi module USI 339S0213;
• Audio Codec Apple 338S1116 Cirrus, which is used in the iPhone 5c.

16. Not to forget about touch-screen control module Broadcom BCM5976C1KUB6G:

17. Now look at the cellular communication modules in the iPad Air:

• LTE-processor Qualcomm M9615M;
• The power amplifying module signal TriQuint TQF6514 RF;
• LTE signal gain module Three Skyworks SKY77-series;
• 2 LTE amplification module Avago A79-series;
• antenna switch module 227 LG;
• transceiver Qualcomm WTR1605L LTE / HSPA + / CDMA / EDGE / GPS;
• chip Qualcomm PM8018 PMIC.

18. Let's move on to the connector lightning. Together with it, disconnect the Wi-Fi antenna and Bluetooth. Using two-Wi-Fi antennas and MIMO technology, Apple promises that the Wi-Fi in the iPad Air will run 2 times faster:

19. Deactivate front FaceTime-chamber:

20. Remove the 2 built-in speakers and headphone jack:

21. The last thing we have to remove - the main camera of 5 MP:

22. That's our baby in a completely disassembled:

Overall, iFixit negatively assessed the iPad Air on maintainability: many components are very difficult to remove, especially the battery. Well, we - ordinary users, we hope that our iPad Air will not get in trouble and we do not have to carry them in repair. Although, even if it is necessary, fix - it is still not our problem, is not it?

Based on materials from iFixit