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-[* black] The newly revised Kindle Fire (left) and the Kindle Fire HD (right) side-by-side.
+[* black] The newly revised Kindle Fire (left) and the Kindle Fire HD (right) lay side-by-side, both opened up and exposed to the sterile white lights of the iFixit teardown table.
[* black] The Kindle Fire HD is the big kid in town (for now), but that doesn't mean the refreshed Kindle Fire doesn't deserve its time in the spotlight.
[* black] Though the motherboard layout is pretty much the same as [guide|7099|last year|stepid=30226], Amazon switched up the design and layout of a few connectors:
[* red] The design of the digitizer ribbon cable has been minimally altered.
[* yellow] The ambient light sensor socket is missing from the motherboard, though the trace is still present on the board.