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		The_Ace on June 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Teardown: DDC Mobile X900 I love these Chinese crap phones. The effort spent in order to optimize the system to cut the BOM is truly astonishing.

joezydeco on June 5, 2014 | [–]

Anyone else notice the ribs in the battery cover that were ground down by hand to make the cell fit snugly?

https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/learn_tutorials/2/5/1/SFE_00...

jdboyd on June 5, 2014 | [–]

If it was strictly the BOM they were cutting, I don't think it would have had two keypads.

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