Apple is always very compliant in the delivery dates of the launches of its devices. Said today April 30 the first orders for the AirTags would be delivered, and they have.
And there is always someone eager to get their hands on a new device to "stick the screwdriver in" and find out what's under the case. Well, time has not been lacking, and the first teardown of Apple's new tracker has already been published. And this time, it was not the boys of iFixit. Let's see.
As the company announced on the day of its presentation, today the first orders of the new Apple tracker have begun to be delivered worldwide: the AirTags. And if for a few days now videos of the first unboxing for those "plugged in" from Apple who received the first units have been running on the net, today the first teardown has already been published.
Japanese YouTube channel Haruki just posted a video lesson with an in-depth 14-minute breakdown of AirTag. We already knew that the tracker opens easily to replace the "coin" type battery ref. 2032. But this video gives us a more complete look at the internal Bluetooth components, the U1 chip and other components, all integrated into a very small disk, the size of a currency of 2 Euros.
Lots of technology packed into very little space
Once the battery door is removed, it seems relatively easy to remove the plastic inner shell to disassemble the AirTag, as long as you have one tool very fine for it.
One of the interesting aspects of the design is how Apple uses the housing coil as a speaker paired with a small "speaker coil motor" located in the center of the device.
It seems that such a motor placed in the central magnetic field vibrates due to current changes, and the housing on the coil side acts as a diaphragm.
The pity is that the comments on the video of Haruki They are in Japanese. But I'm sure the guys at iFixit are already on the job and we'll have new AirTag teardowns shortly, already in English. But for now, we can be content with this phenomenal teardown.
