Image Gallery: iPhone vs. iPad Gyro Slot
UBM TechInsights' detailed teardown of the iPhone reveals a slot housing a micro-electro-mechanical gyroscope. The device is absent from the iPad -- but there's an open slot for it.
June 24, 2010
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The integrated circuit marked "AGD1 2022 FK9AH" is a 4 by 4 mm, micro-electromechanical (MEMS) gyroscope. It's situated on the iPhone 4's main circuit board.
See main story, iPhone 4 Teardown Telegraphs Future iPad Gyro.
Here's the same slice of the iPad's circuit board, showing an empty slot where the gyro was housed on the iPhone. Hence the assumption that the iPad is gyro-capable.
See main story, iPhone 4 Teardown Telegraphs Future iPad Gyro.
Here's the same slice of the iPad's circuit board, showing an empty slot where the gyro was housed on the iPhone. Hence the assumption that the iPad is gyro-capable.
See main story, iPhone 4 Teardown Telegraphs Future iPad Gyro.
The integrated circuit marked "AGD1 2022 FK9AH" is a 4 by 4 mm, micro-electromechanical (MEMS) gyroscope. It's situated on the iPhone 4's main circuit board.
See main story, iPhone 4 Teardown Telegraphs Future iPad Gyro.
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