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Example: A Cellphone.
A modern mobile phone contains eight or more radio tranceivers, counting the various cellphone standards, GPS, WiFi, near-field and Bluetooth. For the Apple iPhones, all use off-SoC mixers and some use on-SoC ADC/DAC.
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»iPhone teardown link
Further examples:
»iFixit Teardowns
»iPhone Dissected
»Samsung Galaxy»Numonyx Flash DatasheetCellphone physical components - bill of materials:
- Main SoC - Application Processor, Caches and DRAM
- Display (touch sensitive) + Keypad + Misc buttons
- Audio ringers and speakers, microphone(s) (noise cancelling),
- Infra-red IRDA port
- Multi-media codecs (A/V capture and replay in several formats)
- Radio Interfaces: GSM (three or four bands), BlueTooth, 802.11, GPS, Nearfield, .... plus antennas.
- Power Management: Battery Control, Processor Speed, on/off/flight modes.
- Front and Rear Cameras, Flash/Torch and ambient light sensor,
- Memory card slot,
- Physical connectors: USB, Power, Headset,
- Case, Battery and PCBs
- Java VM and Operating System.