A teardown of the Palm Pre, fair hours after its nationwide start off, has revealed an ultra-fast processor and a hard construct but a touchscreen module that could turn a problem mark for some buyers.

“It’s a fine plan with components that, while not completely at the bleeding brink, are at the forefront of their rivalry,” says Aaron Vronko, CEO of Quick Mend, the companionship which dissected the phone told Wired.com. Technicians took round an hour-and-half to slice because of the device.

Palm launched the Pre exclusively on the Sprint network Saturday. Reviews of the Pre possess praised the phone’s plan , its entirely rebuilt operating organized whole and its adeptness to multitask. But they possess also needle-shaped away drawbacks such as the device’s tight keyboard and needy battery existence. The Pre desire price $200, after a $100 mail-in discount, on a two-year contract.

Vronko and his team’s mend toolkit for the Pre included a little Philips screwdriver, a level skull screwdriver, a razor knife, pliers and a solder iron. Removing the invest in panel was simple since, different from the iPhone , the battery on the Pre can be replaced.

“We establish the total construction of the Pre to be representative of slider phones,” says Vronko who rates the strain of attractive the contrivance aside a seven outside of ten and comparable to the iPhone .

The Pre’s organized whole plank has a Texas Instruments CPU (TWL5030B/ 94A20PW C), an Elpida recall fragment and 8GB NAND recall fragment from Samsung.

“The processor on the Pre is nearly 50 percent faster than the iPhone ,” says Vronko. “One justification could be that Apple may possess clocked down the rapidity on its iPhone processor to cut back power consumption and warmth generation.”

The Pre stumbles when it comes to its touchscreen says Vronko. In the Pre, the LCD and capacitive touchscreen are forever glued together. It’s like to how the foremost production iPhone was built. But the succeeding iPhone 3G has the two screens as disjoin modules. The superiority for users is that in instance of a difficulty with the partition it is easier to mend if they are unlike modules, says Vronko.

“If the partition is damaged, it’s nearly twice as costly to mend and change it if they are glued than if the two are separate components,” he says.

Another probable problem mark for the Pre is the slider device that could be dressed away above period, warns Vronko. Quiet, he rates the Pre a “solid build”. “The phone is in comely fine form,” he says.

Observe more photos from the Pre teardown

Palm Pre with its invest in panel removed

Palm Pre’s face panel exposed

Palm Pre’s face panel plank view

For step-by-step outlook of the Pre disassembly, stop interruption away Quick Repair’s site

Photos: Quick Repair