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| [* black] The back side of board is devoid of interesting silicon, but it does have a strange jumper wire that looks a little ''ad-hoc'' (our video teardown team's specimen had the same wire). | |
| [* icon_note] There's a corresponding shallow channel cut into the frame directly underneath the jumper wire to accommodate its added depth, so this wasn't a single-batch rework or something. This was likely a last-minute change to the design. | |
| [* black] What's it for? You're welcome to inspect where it's routed and try to guess! | |
| [* black] We think it may be a diversity antenna of some kind, possibly for grounding the exterior to block RF to and from the interior signal lead. The accompanying sticker ''NEW SAM'' could be labelling the wire as a Surface Antenna Mount. | |
| [* black] If you look closely, you'll see a pair of coax connectors right above the wire ends. Those could be for testing, or might have been the original plan for the wire connection but the connector ended up being too thick for the case. | |
| - | [* black] All that said, NEW SAM could be anything: ''Super Activity Monitor; Silver Aerobic Master; Slippery Agile Meerkat; Solidified Aerodynamic Meter'' ... The possibilities are endless. Leave your NEW SAM guesses in the comments below. |
| + | [* black] All that said, NEW SAM could be anything: ''Super Activity Monitor; [https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FatSpectacularInganue-size_restricted.gif|Silver Aerobic Master|new_window=true]; Slippery Agile Meerkat; Solidified Aerodynamic Meter'' ... The possibilities are endless. Leave your NEW SAM guesses in the comments below. |