iPad Air 2 will be launched tomorrow in Romania and a multitude of other countries around the globe, but until then we have the opportunity to see the internal components that are hidden in the new product of the American company. The folks at iFixIt managed to get hold of a tablet ahead of its official launch to take it apart, and below you'll find all the components we find inside, some of which are unexpected given the promises Apple made for the tablet.
Separated from the A8X chip with the 1.5 GHz triple-core processor and 2 GB RAM which I already knew about since yesterday, today we find out, that the iPad Air 2 comes with a lower capacity battery than the one implemented in the previous model. iPad Air 2 has a battery of 7340 mAh (27.3 Whr), compared to the one of 8827 mAh (32.9 Whr) used in the previous model, the use of the new component being imposed by reducing the thickness of the tablet, the battery autonomy being slightly lower than that of the iPad Air .
Apart from these, the iPad Air 2 has also the following components:
- Touch ID NXP 8416A1;
- LCD Driver Parade Technologies DP675;
- chip A8X Apple APL1012;
- two Elpida F8164A3MD RAM chips of 1 GB each;
- NAND Flash SK Hynix H2JTDG8UD1BMR 128 Gb(16 GB);
- NXP 65V10 NFC chip, identical to that of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus;
- M8 motion co-processor produced by NPX, LPC18B1UK ARM Cortex-M3 Microcontroller;
- Maxim speakers MAX98721BEWV.
