Samsung Galaxy Note spills its guts
Fully dissected and fully loaded: Take a look inside the Samsung Galaxy Note.
If you're like me, you can get pretty tired of smashing your gadgets to the floor just to see what's inside. For one thing, it's a fairly expensive method and for another, it gets messy.
Fortunately, Samsung Tomorrow took it upon itself to digitally rip apart the Samsung Galaxy Note and explain, layer by layer, what exactly is in this hulk of machinery.
The first obvious component of this smartphone/tablet hybrid is the stylus. According to Samsung Tomorrow, the S Pen "uses electromagnetic induction technology and has pressure sensitivity equal to a regular pen." This also means that the harder you write, the darker the stylus can draw. Altogether, the pen can sense 256 different levels of hardness.
The third layer is the digitizer, which interacts with the stylus and establishes an electronic magnetic field to block "the noise and magnetism through the shield plate." The digitizer also senses where the stylus and/or your finger are, and how hard they're being pressed against the screen.
I would have liked it if this piece went into more detail about where exactly everything is on the main PC board, however. Mainly because I'm curious about where this gyro sensor and light sensor are that they speak of.
Still, if you want to see more of the Galaxy Note's insides, hit the link above and explore away.