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Motorola Droid 3 Teardown

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Adiós motherboard screws, we hardly knew you...

After removing a few more connectors, the motherboard easily lifts off the phone.

In order to strip the motherboard bare, the speaker/antenna assembly must be pried off of the board.

The speaker assembly uses pressure contacts to transmit data to both the speaker and the antenna. Interestingly, a hole through the motherboard allows sound to pass through for better transmission to the outside of the phone.

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