Telecommunications Teardowns

Nokia 6230i Mobile Phone Teardown

Candy-bar style phone with 1.3 Megapixel CMOS camera, 208x208-pixel, 65k color, 1.7" diagonal display, Bluetooth and IrDA connectivity, FM stereo radio, MMC memory card slot.

Lucent Technologies LT7901 Mobile Phone Teardown

Low-end PHS (Personal Handyphone System) clamshell form mobile phone.

Nokia 3220 Mobile Phone Teardown

Tri-band GSM/EDGE phone with 65K color screen, VGA/CMOS camera module, wired connectivity.

Samsung X600 Mobile Phone Teardown

Mid/low end - dual-band GSM/GPRS candybar, rotating VGA camphone (with 'flash') with 65K CSTN ('UFB' - Samsung specific) color display.

Siemens C65 Mobile Phone Teardown

Tri-band GSM candybar-style phone with 1.6-inch 65K color CSTN display, CIF/CMOS camera with digital zoom, 40-note polyphonic ringtones, IrDA and USB connectivity.

Samsung SGH-E710 Mobile Phone Teardown

- Dual-Band GSM / GPRS (8), Camera (VGA/CMOS) with flash, OLED secondary display (16 shade grayscale), NO bluetooth.

Motorola C975 Mobile Phone Teardown

3G UMTS/W-CDMA/Tri-band GSM phone with 1.9 TFT 176x220 65K Color Screen, Dual VGA cameras, MMC Memory Expansion slot with a focus on media player and streaming video capabilities.

Sagem myV-55 Mobile Phone Teardown

Entry-level candybar form, triband GSM, VGA/CMOS camera phone with 64 channel polyphonic ringtones.

HTC XDAIII Mobile Phone Teardown

PDA phone (slide out format with QWERTY keyboard) w/ quad band GSM/GPRS (there is a CDMA version for the Chinese market - China Unicom CU928 Pocket PC Phone), 3.5 TFT/LTPS screen with touchscreen, 400MHz processor, Wi-Fi (802.11b), Bluetooth, VGA Camera, S

Sagem myX-7 Mobile Phone Teardown

- Triband GSM phone, w/ 2 65K color TFT 128x160 resolution screen, CCD/VGA camera (no flash), USB/IrDA connectivity.

Motorola A760 Mobile Phone Teardown

Linux / Java based PDA phone from Motorola (billed as world's first Linux/JAVA based PDA phone)

Motorola E398 Mobile Phone Teardown

- Candybar, tri-band GSM with VGA/CMOS Camera w/Flash, Bluetooth connectivity, external memory capable, and stereo speakers.

Nokia 6230 Mobile Phone Teardown

Main Features - Candybar, tri-band GSM with VGA/CMOS Camera, FM Stereo Radio and Bluetooth, IrDA and USB connectivity.

Siemens S55 Mobile Phone Teardown

This phone shares many of the core circuit components with other Siemens models, such as the Infineon PMB7850 single-chip baseband processor IC and the Htachi RF Transceiver.

Sony Ericsson P900 Mobile Phone Teardown

Second generation update to Sony Ericsson P800 utilizing Philips Nexperia based mobile multimedia processor.

Cablecom VCM02 Cable Modem Teardown

Based on Broadcom chipsets for both the tuner front end (BCM3415 / BCM3401) and broadband DSP/ modem/ interface (BCM3341 / BCM3348).

Nokia 3100 Mobile Phone Teardown

Design is not groundbreaking in comparison with other models analyzed recently.

Siemens A55 Mobile Phone Teardown

The Siemens A55 phone is similar in many aspects to other models previously analyzed (A56, S55, and C60) and shares a lot of commonality of parts and construction with these models.

Siemens C60 Mobile Phone Teardown

Uses tri-band Front End Module (FEM), which includes antenna switch module and 3 RX RF SAW filters. Typically highest level of integration has been dual-band FEM and tri-band FEMS are newer to the market.

Siemens MC60 Mobile Phone Teardown

This phone is internally identical to the C60 previously analyzed with the addition of the camera and image processing circuitry.

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