The axe-wielding maniacs over at iFixit are tearing Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus limb from limb! O, the humanity! If you’ve been eager to see what makes Google’s new flagship beast tick, here’s your photographic anatomy lesson.
https://gizmodo.com/this-is-the-samsung-galaxy-nexus-googles-new-official-5851133
iFixit is still making sense of their findings since they only just finished. So far, there’s nothing super surprising, save for one little thing: the Galaxy Nexus’ NFC capabilities all seem to come from a sticker that’s attached to the phone’s battery. Could this sticker be placed on virtually any Android phone to make it NFC capable? If I were a betting man, I’d say yes.
Update:I would say that, though I would be wrong. It turns out that the sticker is simply an NFC antenna—the NFC chip itself resides on the logic board, as you can see in Step 12. We’ll update if they turn up anything else that’s particularly interesting. [iFixit]
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