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Teardown shows iPad mini 3’s “hastily glued” Touch ID Home button makes for difficult screen repairs

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Teardown shows iPad mini 3’s “hastily glued” Touch ID Home button makes for difficult screen repairs

Following a teardown of the new iPad Air 2 earlier this week, our friends over at iFixit have now opened up Apple’s other new tablet: the iPad mini 3 …  While the new iPad mini 3 was more of a minor refresh compared to the iPad Air 2, it does add some notable new features […]

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Following a teardown of the new iPad Air 2 in advance this week, our pals over at iFixit have now opened up Apple’s other new tablet: the iPad mini 3 … 

While the brand new iPad mini 3 used to be extra of a minor refresh in comparison to the iPad Air 2, it does upload a few extraordinary new options just like the Touch ID fingerprint sensor. iFixit additionally discovered any other tweaks made to the tool at the inside of:

Yes—that is hot glue protecting the house button bracket to the entrance panel. Good good fortune moving that on your alternative glass. (Which you’re going to need to do, to stay the Touch ID capability after a cracked screen restore.)

Apart from the extra glue at the house button making for extra difficult screen repairs, iFixit notes the remainder of the software is nearly equivalent and therefore earns the similar low 2/10 repairability rating as the former era.

So perhaps the Mini fell out of step with generation’s march just a bit. But hello, now you'll be able to use your new iPad Mini to pay for issues (on-line, the place supported). This is way to the inclusion of a Touch ID-supplied house button, all of a sudden glued in position… The crummy cabling of the brand new house button wasn’t sufficient to earn the iPad Mini 3 a decrease repairability rating, however it used to be an in depth name.

The teardown additionally unearths a 24.3-watt-hour 6471mAh battery which, in contrast to the iPad Air 2, is identical measurement as the former era.

The new Home button bracket for Touch ID can also be noticed beneath:

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Chips and different parts discovered within the iPad mini 3 that aren’t indexed through Apple come with:

- Apple A7 APL0698 SoC
- SK Hynix H9CKNNN8KTARKR 1 GB LPDDR3 DRAM
- SK Hynix H2JTDG8UD1BMR sixteen GB NAND Flash
- Universal Scientific Industrial 339S0213 Wi-Fi Module
- Apple 343S00004-A1
- NXP Semiconductors 65V10 NFC Controller
- NXP Semiconductors LPC18A1 (Apple M7 Motion Co-Processor)
- Apple (Cirrus Logic) 338S1213 Audio Codec
- Apple 338S1199
- Fairchild Semiconductor FDMC6676BZ and FDCM6683 MOSFETs
- NXP 1610A1 Display Interface IC

S teardown of the iPad Air 2 in advance this week found out a variety of minor tweaks and, as anticipated, an roughly 15% smaller battery in comparison to the former era Air.


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