Journey into the depths of Revo and Revo Plus

Before you two motherboards: RevoPlus, you can see above, and Revo Classic (below). They look like, is not it?
Journey into the depths of Revo and Revo Plus
Motherboard Revo Classic, an image that you see - one of the earliest versions, she uses to reflash the flash-memory (suddenly employees Psion mistake :-)). Later, when production has reached full capacity, flash-memory chip has been replaced nepereproshivaemym (Masked Rom). Normal motherboard Revo Classic is more like a Revo Plus, thanks to this change. The most obvious difference is the Revo Plus another 8 MB EDO RAM.
Journey into the depths of Revo and Revo Plus
REVO CLASSIC

"Silver Chips" - flash-memory
Journey into the depths of Revo and Revo Plus
REVO PLUS

"Square" chip - Mask ROM, it works as well as flash-memory, but not reflash
You'll notice a small rearrangement of the components on the board appeared tags, which have made it possible to trace where components must be moved. (Now, when my hands hit model Revo Classic, I can make a more accurate comparison.) At two locations on the motherboard used Revo-mounting, it is made ​​to overwrite the Flash-ROM'a, or my Revo was a test device.
Journey into the depths of Revo and Revo Plus
Journey into the depths of Revo and Revo Plus
Contact dynamics have also been small upgrades. In principle, they have remained the same, but one of them on the board Revo Plus added two extra "pads." It's funny, but they are not used, is likely to have added to prepare for the modernization of the speaker.
Journey into the depths of Revo and Revo Plus
Journey into the depths of Revo and Revo Plus
Physically, the two models Revos do not differ from each other, the improvement is to integrate the software WAP-browser and Opera. I'll bet that many readers in mind now the question arose: "And if we can add Revo Classic memory?" To be honest, I do not know, but it is quite possible. If I gave someone a dead Revo for experiments ..... Sources, Materials:

Portal PDA

The authors, translation:

HPCru