Google Project Tango Tablet Developer Kit Teardown Reveals New Details

It's been a while since Google unveiled its Project Tango tablet development kit powered by Nvidia Tegra K1 at $1,024 (approximately 62,000) in June. The tablet comes with 3D and motion-sensing capabilities, and is meant to help developers design for Project Tango, which is aimed at bringing 3D technology to smartphones and tablets for potential applications such as indoor mapping, gaming and helping blind people navigate.

Project Tango is run by Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) division. While we know the Project Tango tablet developer kit comes with quite impressive specifications, most details about it were kept secret by Google. Now iFixit, which has made a name for itself tearing down popular gadgets, has got its hands on Google's Project Tango tablet development kit.

The iFixit teardown has revealed some interesting things. Google appears to have integrated a 170-degree motion tracking camera alongside the 4-megapixel RGB-IR rear camera and a 120-degree front facing camera. The tablet reportedly been designed uniquely to keep users' fingers away from the cameras. It also contains a massive 7.6V Li-ion polymer dual cell battery, rated at around 18Wh of energy.

Google has used some additional antennas other than the Nvidia baseband module antennas throughout the casing. Although the Project Tango tablet is currently meant for developers only, the team at iFixit has given it a repairability score of 4 out of 10 (10 is easiest to repair).

Some other specifications revealed by the iFixit teardown of Project Tango tablet include Nvidia TD580D-A1 quad-core Tegra K1 processor; SanDisk 4133DF4PG02X 128GB flash memory, Skyworks 77621-11 multimode multiband power amplifier module, Broadcom BCM4752IUB2G integrated multi-constellation GNSS receiver and more.

The specifications already detailed by Google about the Project Tango tablet development kit include a 7-inch HD (1920x1200 pixels) display with 323ppi; a 2.3GHz quad-core Nvidia Tegra K1 processor; 4GB of RAM; 128GB of built-in storage with microSD card slot; Wi-Fi; Bluetooth LE; and 4G LTE.