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Inside the iPod nano
Thanks to narco for sending in this little tidbit of info. This Japanese site has already managed to grab an iPod nano and they even performed a detailed dissection of the little wonder. Here's a link to the Beta Google translation of the page.
From the looks of these pics and the horribly translated Japanese, it appears that the 4GB iPod nano features two 2GB flash chips while the 2GB features only one. It also doesn't look like people will be able to canabalize the memory to use in their digital cameras the way people did with the iPod mini. Too bad.
In any case, head over to the site and make sure you click on the pics to see the full-sized pics.
[Thanks, narco!]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mark said 12:51PM on 9-08-2005
man! that was quick!
"let's go and pay $200 for this and destroy it!"
yeah... real smart, but at least we get to see the fruits of their labor!
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meatmcguffin said 1:06PM on 9-08-2005
"Packing the just a little chocolate and the like is made to think"
0_o
if you wake the nano from sleep does it main screen turn on?
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DanITman said 2:18PM on 9-08-2005
I think that memory module is really interesting. What if you take the memory module out of the 4gb nano and put it into the 2gb nano, would it work? I bet apple has some type of firmware lock so you can't swap the memory modules. Also, if you take a look at the memory chip once its removed and if you look at the mainboard it looks like apple had intended to put the chips directly on the board instead of making it a detachable piece. Very Interesting (*strokes chin*)
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frequncydip said 4:47PM on 9-08-2005
ASnyone know if the chip set for the new nano or ROKR phone are Sigmatel or Portal Player? (Sigmatell makes the chips for the Shuffle and Portal player makes chips for the ipod)
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REY2K7 said 5:29PM on 9-08-2005
I bet Creative and Sony are doing the same thing...
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gerald` said 7:55PM on 9-08-2005
actually, creative didn't, at first, and people used to buy 4gig... MuVo's (I think) and break them open for the creamy goodness that is the 4gig microdrive.
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Marian said 12:26AM on 9-09-2005
#4: In one of the pictures, I saw a chip PP5021C. Thus, now you know the answer :-)
The interesting thing: iPod photo/4g/mini 1st gen uses 5020 but mini 2nd gen uses 5022...
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SR said 4:03AM on 9-10-2005
and thus it is confirmed that Samsung made apple an offer they couldn't refuse ;)
so they took a whole bunch of super-cheap 2gb flash sticks and created a killer product out of it. good on ya, apple.
and samsung memory IMO is generally of top-tier quality. good on ya, samsung.
oh, motorola, yeez can get f***** mate i wouldn't buy that iTunesPhone piece-o-crap even if you paid me a million bucks for every minute it was shoved up my a***
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