The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has published a number of photos of Apple’s iPad as part of the company’s application for approval based on radiation emission requirements, Engadget reports.
“With the iPad they didn’t just bother to test out the radiation and maybe take a little peek for themselves under the covers, but instead disassembled the whole machine on camera. Unfortunately they took it upon themselves to cover over the specific chips, so we’ll have to wait for one of those pro bono teardowns to get the full lay of the land, but it’s still a unique look at the makeup of this thing.”
You can clearly see the battery being almost as wide as the device itself. Some parts are covered due to confidentiality.
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iFixit is doing a full analysis of the FCC images. The covered parts were actually blacked out by a layer embedded in the PDF. With some pretty simple manipulation these layers were quickly removed to reveal the “confidential” chips. It is revealed the Apple is using Toshiba Flash memory and a Broadcom BCM5973 chip. And ofcourse it is “revealed” that the iPad really uses an Apple A4 as the main processor.
