iPad Air LTE Teardown

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What looks like a ZIF, and quacks like a ZIF, but isn't quite a ZIF connector? We don't know, but that's what we've got on our hands with this home button ribbon cable.
Although unidentified, it shows more design consideration than Dr. Frankenstein.
Speaking of Frankenstein, we've noticed a bit of the good doctor's methodology in the Air. It seems like Apple took an iPad Mini and transmogrified it to a regular iPad's size.

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