The iFixit team took little time to disassemble the new Apple headphones, the AirPods to see what kind of hardware is hiding inside such a small device. As you may have already guessed, opening one of these headphones on your own means destroy them since everything is tremendously encapsulated and glued to his body internally.
From what we have already been able to read, there is a quantity of hardware engineering applied to these headphones that we could say that they are two computers that reproduce audio.
As you can see in the photographs that the iFixit have posted in their analysis, Inside the AirPods there is not a single free hole that is not busy with components, chips, batteries and hundreds of surface components. This is one of the toughest hardware engineering jobs seen in recent times.
One of the largest components, of course, is the battery of the same that at the same time comparing it with that of other devices is very small, with only 93 milliamps. In addition to the battery, the rest of the components that they have found inside the AirPods are:
- W1 chip.
- Audio codec chip
- Bluetooth antenna
- System chip.
On the other hand, the box where the AirPods are stored and recharged has also been disassembled by the iFixit, but in this case only 3,81w battery found which is exactly 16 times the power consumed by a single AirPod, so eight full recharges can be made.
The question that remains in the air is how the hell Apple itself is going to change the batteries of the same in cases and that a user wishes. Do you really change them or give them a new headset after checking that it is the battery that is failing?