While others have torn down the Kin in their reviews, the folks at Chipworks have done an actual tear-down of the Microsoft smart phone.
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http://www.windows7newsinfo.com/smf/index.php/topic,9481.0.html)
For those that missed it, the Kin is Microsoft's effort to tailor a phone to the always-connected crowd. The device comes in two flavors, the squat, squarish Kin One and the longer, slightly more powerful Kin Two. The phone was developed and designed by Microsoft, manufactured by Sharp and is sold in the U.S. on Verizon's network. It runs a variant of Windows Mobile, though not quite the same version being used in the Windows Phone 7 devices that will come out later this year.
Chipworks elected to do their inspection on the Kin Two device.
Among the chips they found included processors, cellular and power chips from Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Avago, along with an image sensor from Sony and memory chips from Numonyx, Hynix and Samsung.
Chipworks noted that one of the harder to find items was the Tegra processor that Nvidia had been touting as powering the Kin. It's there, Chipworks said, but hidden under some other stacked chips.
