Surprise, surprise. The iFixit team have cornered themselves a dark grey Nokia N8
and have proceeded to do the one thing that comes naturally to them:
disassembled it. It's mostly good news all around with this teardown,
which found the BL-4D battery cell was only two Torx screws away from
being user-replaceable, while the overall N8 construction was praised
as being the "beefiest" of any phone this year. There are plenty of
bodacious highlights within, including the massive Xenon flash and the
pair of camera modules -- which are regrettably not removable from the
main board. The touchscreen controller in the N8 is the same as has
previously been used on the Kin Two and BlackBerry Torch.
Perhaps that's not the best pedigree in the world, but the (complete in
one case, and relative in the other) lack of success of those phones
was never really about the screen's responsiveness. Hit the source link
for a full gallery of images and the complete deconstruction guide.
