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Apple Pencil Teardown shows Folded Logic board, impossible to repair and more

Apple pencil teardown
iFixit Apple Pencil teardown, there is no surprise because there is no Apple Product which iFixit didn't teardown. 

Apple Pencil is not easy to teardown, iFixit first removed the outer plastic casing of the Pencil to reveal the inner Metal casing. The tip has two emitters which determine the angle and the orientation of the Pencil's nib that adjusts the width of the stroke. iPad Pro contains a digitizer that determines the distance of the each emitter from the screen.

Apple Pencil tear down

Next to a small cylindrical black and gold antenna they found Apple Pencil's tiny 0.329 Wh lithium-ion rechargeable battery that can run the Apple Pencil for 30 minutes with just 15 seconds of charge and can be fully charged in nearly 8 minutes to provide 12 hours of battery life. There is also a small ribbon like cable that connects the Apple Pencil's battery with its Lightning connector for charging.

On the other end of the battery is the Folded Logic Board of the Apple Pencil that weighs only one gram. The logic board contains more then five components shown below.
.Apple Pencil logic board

Orange outline shows: ST Microelectronics AS5C Y533 (which is also used in 4th generation Apple TV) 
Red outline shows: ST Microelectronics STML151UCY6 Ultra-low-power 32-bit RISC ARM-based Cortex-M3 MCU 
Green outline shows: EWX 01129
Yellow outline shows: L05286 QS4 VG Z SGP 528
The logic board also contains a Cambridge Silicon Radio Qualcomm CSR1012A05 Bluetooth Smart IC which is not outlined in this image.

iFixit gave Apple Pencil the lowest repairability score 1 out of 10. But you can replace the Pencil nib and the cap. iFixit states there is no way getting into the Stylus without destroying it.The battery is also not replaceable.

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Apple Pencil package will include a adapter for Charging with Lightning Cable


Back in September Apple announced iPad Pro and it's accessories one of them is Apple Pencil, lots of users were annoyed by the charging method of the Apple Pencil which requires plugging into iPad Pro as it has a lightning connector on the end of the Pencil.


The New report confirmed that Apple Pencil package will include an adapter that will let users charge Apple Pencil through standard lightning cable. The Adapter will have a lightning plug on both sides and at one side Apple Pencil will be plugged and at the other side the standard lightning cable will be plugged. This adapter will give more methods to charge Apple Pencil and charging with the adapter will decrease chances to damage your Apple Pencil or iPad Pro.

Apple iPad Pro is set to launch in the first week of the November. Apple iPad Pro is a new 12.9-inch tablet with Apple's A9X chip and 4GB of RAM. Apple Claims it is as fast as desktop machines.
iPad Pro has a starting price tag of $799 for 32GB of Wifi only model and it goes upto $1,079 for 128GB for Wifi + Cellular model.

Users can draw pressure sensitive drawing on Apple iPad Pro though Apple Pencil which uses can buy separately as an accessory for $99. Apple also launched Smart Keyboard for iPad Pro for $169.

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Source: 9to5Mac
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iPad Pro Hands-on:ideal for productivity, Apple Pencil is awesome but the smart keyboard is a bit fiddly


iPad Pro launch is very close and the technology and education expert Fraser Speirs attended a event in London yesterday and got his hands-on the new iPad Pro for nearly one hour and he shared his thoughts from the hands-on session of new iPad Pro and its accessories and answered questions on twitter from user's perspective.

 Speirs was impressed with iPad Pro finding its ideal for productivity tasks and noted the iPad Pro is bigger but it is Similar to iPad Air 2 but it feels little more professional. Photos and media are fantastic on it. Multitasking of iPad Pro feels a whole different thing just like two iPad Air 2 side-by-side. It makes it great for work and creativity.

 Speirs find it hard to use for simpler tasks like browsing and netflix. In routine uses iPad Pro increased size and weight is not much beneficial.Speirs find iPad Pro not comfortable for reading but perfect for work.

Speirs called Apple Pencil extremely impressive, says Apple Pencil is the best iPad stylus i have ever used and Palm rejection is nearly perfect and it is the best i have ever seen on any iOS and provides smooth drawing and writing experience.

 Speirs was a little unhappy with the iPad Pro's smart keyboard because of its size and complexity but said "decent enough".

 For more thoughts on iPad Pro and its accessories from Speirs, go to his twitter timeline.
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