Einleitung
Advertised as the "Most Powerful Tablet Under $100", the Kindle Fire HD 6 was too tempting to pass up. Join us to find out if inexpensive means cheap, irreparable, or just down right economical. It's teardown time.
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One hundred dollars. One Benjamin. A single C-note. That's the cost of a Amazon's New Kindle Fire HD 6. Let's see what your not-so-hard-earned cash buys you:
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6" high definition touchscreen with 1280 x 800 resolution at 252 ppi
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Quad-Core processor with two cores running at 1.5 GHz and two cores at 1.2 GHz
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1 GB of RAM
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8 GB (4.5 GB available to user) or 16 GB (11.6 GB available to user) of internal storage
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802.11b, 802.11g, or 802.11n Single-antenna Wi-Fi + Accelerometer + Gyroscope + Bluetooth
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VGA Front-facing Camera + 2.0 MP Rear-facing HD camera
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Good news, everyone! You won't need anything fancier than an opening pick to crack this case. Plastic clips and no adhesive secure the panel.
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This looks familiar. It seems the Fire HD 6 is just a small Kindle Fire.
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Already a very simple device, the Fire has undergone some serious streamlining internally (not to mention shrinking externally).
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It looks to us like the motherboard, rear camera, battery, and speaker are all clearly available for easy removal...
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Or so we thought. The battery, while up on top and otherwise ready to roll, is suffering from separation anxiety.
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Even with our plastic card, we had to use excessive force to pry the battery out.
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The 3.7 V, 3400 mAh (12.6 Wh) Lithium-ion Polymer battery in the Kindle Fire HD 6 is pretty hefty at 60 grams—about one fifth of the total weight of the Fire.
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Amazon promises about 8 hours of use, but warns that "results may vary."
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Moving right along on the "removing modular components" train, we pull out the speaker, rear-facing camera, and finally (after all of that effort) the motherboard.
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The 2.0 MP rear-facing camera is...well...a camera.
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Which is great if you ever wanted 2005 flip-phone photography in a new unwieldy format.
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These are the ICs that ignite the Kindle Fire HD 6:
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SK Hynix H5TC4G63AFR 4 Gb (512 MB) DDR3L SDRAM (512 MB x 2 = 1 GB)
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Toshiba THGBMBG6D1KBAIL 8 GB e-MMC NAND Flash
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MediaTek MT8135V Applications Processor
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MediaTek MT6397A 1425-ANAH EC4 AW80H
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MediaTek MT6628TP Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Controller
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SlimPort ANX3618 SlimPort Connectivity IC
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Cypress Semiconductor CY8CTMA4 63-56LQI 1419 F 04 CYP620476
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Look ma, no optical adhesive! It's been a while since we've seen a tablet display come apart into non-fused glass and display components.
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The 6 inch, 1280 x 800 pixels (252 ppi) display is provided by LG Display.
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The display glass assembly contains the digitizer and the VGA front-facing camera.
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Fire HD 6 Repairability Score: 8 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair).
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The rear case is very easy to open, granting trouble-free access to the internals.
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All the fasteners found inside are T5 Torx screws—one non-proprietary screwdriver is all you need.
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Simplistic design and limited functionality means fewer components and less headache for disassembly.
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Battery adhesive is much stronger than necessary, which makes disassembly hazardous.
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The glass panel is fused to the front plastic frame, meaning a heat gun is required for replacing cracked glass (or you have to replace both components together).
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8 Kommentare
Simplistic refers to treating somthing as much simpler than it is.
In this case, calling partial disassembly into a few major subassembles, one of which contains more than 95% of the content of the device, a teardown, is a simplistic understanding of what a teardown is.
The design is clean and straight forward, but not simple, except perhaps to someone would would regard an automobile engine/transmission assembly as a component to be replaced rather than repaired.
Hey guys, does anyone know where I can purchase a glass replacement or the entire front glass housing? My son dropped it while coming out of the car, and the entire glass shattered. Thanks in advance :)
hey Anibal Alanis, you can buy it on Amazon or online shopping, check on google
Nobody has these replacement screens. Amazon suggested just to buy a new one, of course! maybe in a few months, China will start cranking them out and I can finally fix my son's unit without spending $100
I don't know what if anything you did about this , as your post is 11 months old at this time, but I bought this same device from a neighbor for $20. It has a cracked screen. Cost to replace it? $100