Microsoft Kin Two teardown

The Kin Two from Microsoft is more or less the maiden collaboration between NVIDIA and Microsoft where a cellphone is concerned, where the folks at Chipworks took one apart to find an 8-megapixel image sensor within, making it one of the first few camera phones that features 720p HD video capability, not to mention 256MB RAM and 8-Gbit of flash memory for all your data storage needs. As for the front side of the board, it holds most of the chips including the CDMA power amplifier and processor, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/FM radio chipset, and stereo codec processor among others. The housing itself measures nearly 2cm thick – pretty hefty for a non-smartphone contender.

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