Here's a peek at the E4GT's guts...

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besides figuring out that it does a 55 in linpack in 1.5 sec on the first run, here's what I did when I first got my hands on our demo...two pics of each side of the motherboard. Sorry for the quality, but it's using my OG epic

http://db.tt/2aofOxR

http://db.tt/epSIeRX

What I've found that's interesting so far through research...that little Broadcom chip? It's what's responsible for Wifi, Bluetooth, and FM. Two little goodies there...it's capable of 5ghz wifi. And....it's and FM transceiver, capable of both receiving AND transmitting FM. Do I smell development of audio through FM transmitter for those of us without Bluetooth in our cars? One can only hope

AnandTech's review gets pretty deep into the guts too.

Thanks squshy! I already see 3 things I wanted on my Epic but didn't have

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Any word on the DAC? I tried looking on your pics to find the YMU823 (Yamaha DAC) but can't track it down... hoping it's not there and a Wolfson DAC is there instead.

can you confirm that the GPS unit is the same as the international verison?

The SiRF chip seems really good

Originally Posted by irev210

can you confirm that the GPS unit is the same as the international verison?

The SiRF chip seems really good

Hard to say, since squshy 7 didn't provide a pic of the arm of the PCB, and according to the international SGII review at Anandtech, the SiRF GPS component is located on that arm.

Hope so though, and according to initial reviews the GPS is relatively decent on the E4GT. Not sure how it compares to the complaints on the SGII boards versus the E4G boards.

Sorry, I'm going to see if I can rip another one apart tomorrow and bring my girlfriends point-and-shoot. No promises though. If not, they're sending two of us (myself included) to a samsung event next week, and the word on the street is we'll be given a freebie. Crossing my fingers

If so, ill definitely post up some better pics.


As far as the mics are concerned...there were no labels or writing of any kind, is there a particular way to tell?

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Originally Posted by allies

Any word on the DAC? I tried looking on your pics to find the YMU823 (Yamaha DAC) but can't track it down... hoping it's not there and a Wolfson DAC is there instead.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, and it's fuzzy so I can't quite make it out for sure, but I think this component here says YMU023, just like the international SGSII:

whats wrong with the YMU823?

Originally Posted by comeatmebro

whats wrong with the YMU823?

No idea, just a couple people posted hoping that it wasn't there for some reason.