iPhone dock disassembled

Tags: disassembly, dock, hip waders, iphone, ipod, unscrewd

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Just a few photos of the PCB inside the iPhone dock. You'll notice that the PCB is multilayer, with the conductors in the center layers for shielding.

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There's a logic chip here - the numbers read HCF4098 EZ4N715 - Googling reveals that it's a dual monostable multivibrator - that's electronics speak for a timer chip. Probably for charge timing.

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Here's a detail on the iPhone side of the dock - note the missing pins. According to the iPod dock pinout at pinouts.ru, we've got pins 8, 9, 10, 14, 17, 22, 24, and 26 missing. These correspond to the Video-Out and Firewire interfaces of old iPods - oddly the TPB+ Firewire pin is still present, probably so the iPhone can notify you that Firewire is not supported.

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Here's the bottom - note the heavy shielding and numerous test points.

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Detail of test points.

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The connectors are pretty dense in there - would be very hard to get a soldering iron on them.

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