
Tearing Down Nokia N8 – Let’s See What is Inside
One of monster phone that is manufactured by Nokia, Nokia N8 is considered as the most dangerous contender to Apple’s iPhone 4 or any high-end Android phone. Nokia is arming this phone with some impressive features. however, how great the Nokia N8 really is? Lets tear it down.
Nokia has planted the big size of camera to N8, 12MP camera. The camera itself also is equipt with Xenon flash and the other ability such as HD video ability. With the metal frame, it is supposedly built tough phone. We can say that it is very good phone. Why we have to admit that N8 is a good phone? First the glass is not fused to the AMOLED screen then the battery is easy to replace and the last answer is Nokia N8 is easy to be disassembled.
Here they are the highlights :
• The 12MP camera is a big problem for Nokia if they didn’t assemble it perfectly. In some cases, the size of camera will affect the thickness of the phone. however, Nokia decides to stick out the camera a little bit outside of the back cover. It still easy to be grab from your pocket.
• Nokia also decides another different thing will be happened to N8. It is the Xenon flash tube. When the other phone choose to attach the single or double flash LED flash, Nokia choose the Xenon flash. The nice flash is produced by the large capacitor that supplies the high voltage.
• The battery is replaceable even though it needs a help of two scredrivers.
• You don’t have to replace both the glass or the screen if the glass was broken because the the glass is not fused to the 640 × 360 3.5″ AMOLED display.
• Unfortunately Nokia N8 has no groundbreaking technology to be shown off. The touch screen controller is the same chip found in the Microsoft Kin Two and RIM Blackberry Torch, Synaptics T1201A.
• The main anntenas are settled near the flat plastic plateson the top and bottom of the phone. clever!
• The large EMI shield is integrated into the mid-plane. (Electromagnetic interference shields will be the real shield to the chips from outside interference)
• The design of daughterboard at the top of motherboard is interesting. It connects the motherboard through a ribbon cable that is inserted between so many layers or the motherboard. Why it is so interesting? It is unique while the ribbon cables on most devices are attached with ZIF connectors or are soldered to the surface of the board, the ribbon cables in N8 is inserted.
That’s all for the hardware, now let the Symbian^3 does its job to help N8 earns more users.
source :
http://www.gadgeteasy.com/tearing-down-nok...what-is-inside/