Amazon Kindle Fire Teardown
ifixit.com
ifixit.com
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing-A-Guitar-String/718/1
It looks like "Use two lamps on the object, one on each side." is the recommended lighting scheme. A light tent would certainly be an asset.
The way people repeat these iFixit teardown costs as net costs and imply that there is a huge margin is utterly misleading (as has happened with various iProducts in the past).
These tear downs are useful and nicely done though - a great resource.
iFixit are a fine mob indeed!
The i.MX5 and OMAP4 were both announced in early 2010. Here's someone showing a tablet reference design with the chip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUk296efZE8
As for running Linux, I've had a usuable mx51 reference board running Ubuntu on my desk for over a year now. It's driving a 21" HDMI monitor.
I think we're talking past each other a bit. I know that Freescale has some newish parts that they are marketing for tablets. I saw one of their reference designs at a conference recently too. But as far as I know, no one has shipped a device intended to directly compete with the iPad (which is what a "tablet" seems to be basically understood as these days) based on a Freescale SoC. So it doesn't exactly seem to me that Freescale is losing share in that area - rather, that they have not yet broken into that particular market at all. What I was trying to say is that historically the i.MX have been lower end parts that were designed into different kinds of applications, and as far as I know, they are still doing OK in those markets. (The current generation of e-ink Kindles do have i.MX SoCs, for one thing.)
Incidentally my understanding is that the Kindle Fire was done by the same ODM as the Blackberry Playbook and that they're fairly similar in terms of the component selection. Makes sense that the ODM would go with parts they're familiar with.
I would think Freescale really wants a high-visibility design win in the multimedia tablet/eBook market. You don't put all that CPU power and media acceleration on the die for nothing. My original point is that TI is capturing all of these wins for some reason over Freescale. I'm curious to know what the advantage is.