After announcing earlier this morning through Twitter that they’d gotten their hands on the new iPad, the folks at iFixit have already begun their teardown of the new device, and should finish flaying open and dissecting the device within the next couple of hours.
Many of the parts have already been leaked prior to the device’s release, but the teardown should nevertheless provide some very interesting details, and offer the first official confirmation of what the device is really made of on the inside.
At the very least, the teardown should satisfy our morbid curiosity to see what the new iPad looks like with its guys spread out on a table! We’ll update this post once the teardown is complete to let you know what they found!
Update – iFixit has now completed their teardown, revealing a number of interesting facts, including that the displays are (unsurprisingly) made by Samsung, and confirming that the LTE hardware in the new iPad will not support LTE networks in many countries, including Australia.
They also confirmed prior rumors that the display connectors for the new iPad’s Retina display are different from the iPad 2’s display connectors, meaning that the displays are not interchangeable (and there won’t be any Retina iPad 2 mods any time soon).
Also interesting is the new iPad’s inclusion of a Broadcom BCM4330 802.11a/b/g/n baseband and Bluetooth chip. For more details, or to see all of the gory pictures in full detail, head on over to iFixit’s official teardown page.
