Xiaomi Mi Note uses curved glass to give it graceful edges, its actually has glass fronts on both sides, use a guitar picks pry up the back cover.
The back cover is use 3D curved glass, its fixed by snaps
The Mi Note support dual cards dual standby
remove all the screws securing the metal shield
once the metal shield was removed, we can see the motherboard
remove the screws securing the sound chamber module, The Mi Note use of the Smart PA technology, making sounds and sound quality are better than other phones
now pull the double-sided adhesive tape, we can remove the battery
Xiaomi Mi Note come with a 4.4v, 2900mah li-polyer battery, battery cells come from LG
the battery caddy is made of magnesium alloy
the board is integrated a microUSB port, microphone, virtual keys light and a vibrator
microphone and virtual keys light
all chips was covered by metal shield
On the front panel, we found a small device – light refracting prism
the rear camera and front camera
OIS Optical Image Stabilizer lens thickness of 5.08mm, it is the thinnest, and with two ISP chips
remove all the metal shield on the motherboard
ESS ES9018K2M 32-bit Stereo Mobile Audio DAC and TI OPA1612 Operational Amplifier, This set of audio chips is currently the most high-end chips in smartphones
Samsung 3GB RAM + 2.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor
Qualcomm PM8941 Power management chip
Qualcomm PM8841 Power management chip
dual SIM Card slots, support microSIM card and nanoSIM card
Toshiba 16GB ROM
Qualcomm WCD9320 Audio decoder chip
Qualcomm QFE1100 Envelope Tracking Chip
Qualcomm WTR1625L RF Transceiver, support GPS and China Beidou Navigation Satellite System
AVAGO ACP7600 RF power amplifier
Skyworks 85709-11 5GHZ wifi chip
Qualcomm WCN3680 bluetooth 4.0 chip
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