8700c tear-down March 28, 2007
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Ah, now we’re getting somewhere. Commsdesign.com has a tear-down of a BlackBerry 8700c. Of course there are going to be differences in the new design, but heritage will show.
Highlights:
- CSR BC41814 for Bluetooth (and GSM?)
- PXA901B3C312 “Hermon” Xscale baseband and applications processor
- Flash and DRAM integrated in MCM with Xscale
Hardware beginnings March 26, 2007
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Last Friday I purchased a BlackBerry 8800. Being the curious type that I am, I immediately started poking around to find out more about the hardware. I found suprisingly little information.
- Xscale @312 MHz (according to phonescoop)
- 64 MB DRAM
I’m curious what the chipset BOM looks like — is the XScale used for all the peripherals, or is there a supporting chipset? The Greenphone is a nice comparison for this purpose — since it boots a development kit and kernel source is available, you can explore the hardware more than is possible on a polished end-user bundle like the 8800.
