Sony WF-1000XM6 FCC Teardown
The FCC internal photos of the WF-1000XM6 have become available. Time to check out if they reveal anything interesting.
The first photo shows the earbuds opened up, and it reveals some good news.
The good news being, there is no cable connecting the top cover to the rest of the components like in WF-1000XM5. This means less of a chance to damage anything when opening up the earbuds for a potential battery change. I say potential, since we have no idea how easily the rest of the components come out, and if they are glued in.
Zooming in on the opened earbud, 3 things are obvious:
- Contact for the Bluetooth antenna
- Contact for the touch sensor
- Possible production date of the cable assembly, 2521, or 2025, 21st week (end of May 2025).
The holes for the feedforward microphones are also visible. The clear plastic cover is different, and I cannot remember if Sony ever used anything like this before, I would have to check.
The next photo shows the entire flex PCB assembly, which was previewed in the Sony Engineer interview.
The colour of the flex PCB assembly is different to what we first saw in the earlier post. Unfortunately there is no photo of the other side of the assembly. We can see one MEMS microphone, which is one of the feedforward microphones.
