Archos 70 Tablet Disassembled
The Archos 70 has been taken apart and we get a look at this tablet’s Cortex A8-based TI OMAP3630 internals, amongst other various bits and bobs. Always interesting to look inside these devices and Archos have absolutely been tearing it up with their Gen 8 tablet lineup, not to mention the recent mass firmware update that updated the entire Gen 8 line to Android 2.2 from its previous 2.1. Disembowelment after the break.
Let’s get started, shall we?
Hello!
That’s it?! The small mainboard, large screen at 7-inches behind it, and two batteries. You know that old aphorism about whole’s, sums, and parts.
The two 3.7v battery packs totaling 3850mAh. The Samsung Galaxy has 4000mAh, for comparison.
The mainboard and metal protective bracket. Below, bracket removed.
Not much going on here. We see the Wolfson WM8999L audio chip, the NXP HDMI output chip, the 8JAM892 speaker amplifier, etc. Boring stuff, really. Over on the other side is where the magic’s at.
The other bracket.
Now off, we see in the top left the distinctive Toshiba memory chip, along with the 3 other major chips including A8 and USB power regulator.
Where the magic happens – Cortex A8-based TI OMAP3630. The brute force behind the Archos Gen 8 lineup success.
The screen and its components. Capacitive controls above.
And there you have it – a quality disassembly. We get a good look at the well designed and delicate PCB of the Archos 70.
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Comments (3)
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why bother posting this artical at all if your not gonna supply disassembly instructions, pretty much a waist of time.
Disassembly voids warranty, which is not something we encourage. Even though we don’t stock Archos products, someone else does. If they want to provide disassembly instructions, they can.
It’s always “at your own risk” which implies that it is in “find out how for yourself” territory as well.
We post these articles because it is interesting to see which components are used in which tablet, and gives people a good enough idea if they want to attempt opening up and switching out components.
Thanks for your feedback.