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| [* black] Here's where our disassembly efforts get gummed up. | |
| - | [* black] The display—rumored to be a [link|https:// |
| + | [* black] The display—rumored to be a [link|https://sharpdevices.com/memory-lcd/|Sharp Memory LCD|new_window=true]—seems firmly glued to the front half of the plastic enclosure. If you need to replace your display, you'll probably need a whole new plastic face—we were not confident we could separate the screen without destroying it. Probably not expensive, but not ideal. |
| [* black] Meanwhile, the buttons and other various I/O live on this sprawling flexible printed circuit, which is glued to the midframe. We started to un-glue it before realizing this wasn't a good, or reversible, idea. | |
| [* black] One ''huge'' bright spot, though, is this 100% modular headphone jack. Is that considered ''retro'' now? Whatever the case, we're big fans. | |
| [* icon_note] A Knowles [link|https://www.knowles.com/subdepartment/dpt-microphones/subdpt-sisonic-surface-mount-mems|SPH1642HT5H-1|new_window=true] MEMS microphone can be found near the headphone jack, too! |