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Kindle Fire HD Teardown

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  • 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.

  • The Kindle Fire HD is the big kid in town (for now), but that doesn't mean the refreshed Kindle Fire doesn't deserve a little peek inside, just for giggles.

  • Though the non-HD Kindle Fire motherboard layout is pretty much the same as last year, Amazon switched up the design and layout of a few connectors:

  • The design of the digitizer ribbon cable has been minimally altered.

  • The ambient light sensor socket is missing from the motherboard, though the trace is still present on the board.

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