Nexus 7 2013 Gets the Teardown Treatment

The guys over have iFixit have done it yet again, the new Nexus 7 aka Nexus 7 2013 just got the teardown treatment. What you see above circled in red is the inductive coil. The repairability score on the Nexus 7 2013 is 7/10 which is the same as the Nexus 7 2012. The back on the Nexus 7 2013 is not glued and you just need a pry tool to take the back off.

Surprisingly the nexus 7 2013 has a 3950mAh battery as compared to the 4326mAh on the Nexus 7 2012. Even with a smaller battery as compared to the Nexus 7 2012 the Nexus 7 2013 boasts of an extra hour of battery life. Below is the hardware powering the Nexus 7 2013:-

• Qualcomm APQ8064 Snapdragon S4 Pro Quad-Core CPU (includes the Adreno 320 GPU)
• Elpida J4216EFBG 512 MB DDR3L SDRAM (four ICs for 2 GB total)
• Analogix ANX7808 SlimPort Transmitter
• Texas Instruments BQ51013B Inductive Charging Controller
• Qualcomm Atheros WCN3660 WLAN a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 (BR/EDR+BLE), and FM Radio Module
• SK Hynix H26M51003EQR 16 GB eMMC NAND Flash
• Qualcomm PM8921 Quick Charge Battery Management IC

For detailed pictures and more details head over to iFixit.