“One thing that caught our attention was the RFID tag on the inside of the case. It is probably for inventory tracking, but we can’t help but have a few tinfoil hat type thoughts.”

Obama put it there to see if you have naughty or nice

I dont know, media often comes with the tags inside a sealed box, did he scan it to see what it had?

@hip

of course it was a decepticon

I wonder if you could swap that wifi card with one with 802.11 n

The connector on the side is a UART serial interface. Pins are GND, 1.8V (so presumably not 3.3V compliant), and RX/TX. A 0.8mm PCB will fit it nicely.
It apparently allows access to the U-Boot kernal interface.

Dave.

@Cynic:

If you call the insight that the years of being a major high level design engineer gives you xray vision, then yes, yes he does.

Dave kinda assumes that you’re hip to what he knows and the things he’s shown off already in his EEV Blog.

Catching it for the first time can leave you scrambling to catch up, but if you want to you can always check out the previous installments where he…oh yeah you hate his voice too.

Try running the audio through some processing or something because it’s worth it.

I’m at no where near his level of skill, but I still watch pretty faithfully and anything really heady can be sorted out in context or with a little personal research.

We all know that many of HAD’s commenters just love bitching, whatever the article and the content are… Ans we also know that Dave does great videos and shares his EE experience, which is priceless.

This Kindle 3 screen looks gorgeous, the texture has nothing to do with LCD, it’s like an electronic etch-a-sketch with huge resolution O_O

I think it would have been nice to see it fully disassembled, would have liked to look ah the e-ink display board and they keyboard.

and even the back of the main pcb

I would have removed and destroyed the RFID tag while commenting I know what to do about one of these.
Also no complete tear down showing the e-ink display?
The design and layout does not look that impressive to me it’s just typical average major brand cell phone or mp3 level quality I seen better in Nokia and Apple products.

Kappa clearly knows what he’s talking about.

what is it with the paranoia about rfid?

just because they included a tag (presumably to ensure against “shrinkage” at the factory and distribution centres) doesen’t make it something to be afraid of.

also if your kindle 3 ever gets stolen or lost the unique code can be used to prove ownership.. so its useful in this way.

just my $0.02 worth.

Does he do like Daniel Tosh and promptly light the thing on fire?

do u think it would be posible to use that sim card with another device for free 3g?

Nice review, I posted the same on youtube, while opening kindle I managed to nick that plastic band on the side that connects to the display. I have some basics but no clue as if that is fixable and how to do it.

I must say that your voice might be funny for someone not used to it, but still you do show some confidence of a long-time experience and I do believe you know what you are about. Enjoyable review and I will check your other stuff when I have time. Thanks.