Nexus 7 Teardown: Battery Beats Kindle Fire but Screen is Harder to Repair, iFixit Says - hartleykinet1940

Google's Nexus 7 tablet looks like the low-cost, iPad alternative that Humanoid fans have been wait for, at to the lowest degree happening the outside.

Merely what about inside? Restore shop iFixit did its customary teardown on the Link 7 to deal repairability and other details that Google itself isn't talk about. Let's suss out the highlights.

The Non-Removable, Yet Still Extractible Cover

If you mustiness get inside the Nexus 7, officially you're out of luck. As luck would have it, the Nexus 7's back cover is only held in set with retaining clips, so you can easy peel IT away with a shaping opening tool.

iFixit, which has criticized Apple lately for the non-repairable nature of its products, seems content, and notes that the Nexus 7 is only a millimetre thicker than the new iPad. "That's the negligible difference between extending the life of your device through revive, as opposed to tossing it in a landfill," the company writes.

Standardized Battery

Speaking of extending the life of the device, the Nexus 7's 4326 mAh battery is held down by just a small amount of adhesive, so it's easy to remove, and presumably easy to put back. As iFixit points out, the Nexus 7's battery is smaller than the Kindle Fire's barrage, but lasts about two hours longer according to Engadget's tests.

Stereo Speakers, Apparently

Google's website doesn't enjoin whether the Nexus 7 has stereo or mono speakers, but iFixit found a pair of speaker drivers in its teardown. (The Verge also reports that the twist has stereo speakers.) In any case, on my loaner Link 7 I can't see very much of a stereoscopic photograph effect, even on songs with conniving panning. That may explain why Google International Relations and Security Network't fashioning a big deal out of it.

Careful with that Screen

As iFixit notes, the Nexus 7's display ice and LCD are consolidated together, so if either one breaks, you'll have to replace both. That's obviously a more valuable and unmanageable repair in compare to the Kindle Sack, whose glass is not fused to the LCD.