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Nintendo DS Handheld GameFull Product Teardown Report
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  January 2005

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Nintendo DS Handheld Game

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Product Description

The Nintendo DS (Dual Screen) provides two Display Modules for a better gaming experience. The Displays are 3in reflective TFT LCDs with 256 x 192 resolution of 256K colors. The lower display has a touch screen. The unit has ports for both DS game cards and legacy Game Boy Advance Packs. It has two stereo speakers providing virtual surround sound and an embedded microphone for games that require voice recognition. The Li-Ion battery delivers a claimed 6-10 hours of play time on a 4 hour charge depending on use. The PictoChat software allows up to 16 users to chat at once. The unit has 802.11 connectivity with a Nintendo-proprietary wireless mode, providing a range of 30 to 100 feet, depending on the environment

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A Product Teardown report is a detailed product disassembly analysis that examines the latest personal electronics and provides unique construction, benchmarking, and cost data in a highly-digestible and graphics-rich format. The products are torn down using propietary methods developed at TechInsights to provide a disassembly report with a multi-disciplinary "system view."

Product Teardown Report Content

Product Teardown / Disassembly Report Contents:

* Detailed external and internal photos
* Detailed step-by-by step teardown photo sequence
* Simplified Block Diagram
* Power measurements
* Circuit board and packaging metrics
* Complete parts lists and component count
* Manufacturing cost analysis
* Description of most interesting features of system architecture and component technologies

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* What enabling electronics technologies are being developed and how will they affect end-products?
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* How does my company compare in competitive benchmarking?
* What technology opportunities are implied from trends in product implementation?
* How will the product features that users want affect our design and technology decisions?



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