Inside the Droid 2? A lot of upgraded silicon

Elpida supplies the 512MB DRAM noesis module, twice that of the example Droid. That Qualcomm defect is the CDMA processor.

(Credit:
iFixit)

Under the hood, the Motorola-Verizon Droid 2 is rattling a hopped-up edition of the example Droid.

While practically a image of the example Droid on the outside, the Droid 2 is not the aforementioned inside. As a preceding place spelled out, underneath the wound beatniks a newborn Texas Instruments processor that is most twice as alacritous (based on the rate rating) of the example Droid 550MHz (Droid) versus 1,000MHz, i.e., 1GHz (Droid 2).

And as seen in the iFixit photo, Japan-based Elpida Memory supplies the 512MB DRAM module, twice the noesis of the example Droid. As if to establish how tightly linked RAM is to the processor, the TI OMAP 3630 defect is belowground underneath Elpida module, according to iFixit.

What added is inside? An 8GB winkle noesis power from SanDisk and more TI silicon. Namely, TI’s noesis direction and LAN Bluetooth/FM chips–the latter a field raise from the example Droid.

With every of this TI silicon–and grave silicon, at that–inside, you would conceive that Motorola strength hit something to feature most it. But you won’t encounter a chirrup most TI on Motorola’s Droid 2 school glasses page. Why? One crapper exclusive speculate. Motorola haw poverty to protect its brand. Another reason: smartphones are not PCs, which are commonly fancy by Intel and Microsoft stickers competing with the PC concern for sort recognition. “We do not divulge the specifics on the series,” a Motorola allegoric said.

Nevertheless, a aggregation of the newborn morality exclusive the Droid 2 is direct imputable to upgraded silicon. I surmisal that’s what teardown sites are for.