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iFixit's iPhone X Teardown Reveals Two Battery Cells, 'Unprecedented' Logic Board (macrumors.com)
iFixit has posted its teardown of the iPhone X, revealing a new TrueDepth camera system, stacked logic board, L-shaped two-cell battery pack, and Qi-based inductive charging coil. Mac Rumors reports: Like every other model since the iPhone 7 Plus, the iPhone X is a sideways-opening device. A single bracket covers every logic board connector. iFixit said the miniaturized logic board design is incredibly space efficient, with an unprecedented density of connectors and components. It noted the iPhone X logic board is about 70 percent of the size of the iPhone 8 Plus logic board. The extra room allows for a new L-shaped two-cell battery pack rated for 2,716 mAh, which is slightly larger than the iPhone 8 Plus battery. iFixit's teardown includes some high-resolution photos of the iPhone X's new TrueDepth camera system that powers Face ID and Animoji. For those unfamiliar, a flood illuminator covers your face with infrared light. Next, the front-facing camera confirms a face. Then the IR dot projector projects a grid of dots over your face to create a three-dimensional map. Last, the infrared camera reads this map and sends the data to the iPhone X for authentication. Like the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, the inside of the iPhone X's rear shell is affixed with an inductive charging coil based on the Qi standard. iFixit gave the iPhone X a so-called repairability score of six out of a possible 10 points. It said a cracked display can be replaced without removing Face ID's biometric hardware, but it added that fussy cables tie unrelated components together into complex assemblies that are expensive and troublesome to replace.
Iâ(TM)m an EE and Engineering Design Firm owner with over 20 years of experience and 200+ Leading Edge Wireless Cellular/WiFi/Microwave/Satcom Product designs under my belt and I have to say WOW. This is very, very impressive. They would have spent months on the PCB design alone! Applause to Appleâ(TM)s Engineers!
It's still a phone to me, like every other phone.
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It sort of strange that gold and diamonds, which have very limited usage in large quantities, are considered intrinsicly valuable, while a pocket computer with thousands of man-years of effort behind it, and craftsmanship down to the nanometer is thought of as something that should be dirt cheap.
It has an Apple logo, which will immediately earn you the respect and envy of all of your friends. $1000 is a small price to pay for that.
Stand by for my Western Electric 2500DM teardown.
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I'm a bit intrigued by the sandwiched logic board using a thick PCB perimeter outline board with vias to connect the top and bottom boards. I wonder how well it will hold up to abuse without any of them desoldering. The X-ray pics sure are nice, wish I had one in my lab.
I can confidently say that the bar is set so high that it will never be topped.
The extraction of gold and diamonds is controlled to maintain an artificial scarcity that keeps prices high.
That depends on who your friends are ...
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Please do one. I haven't seen one of those in years, but I think the last one I saw I did dissemble.
I suspect that the price tag will provide for artificial scarcity for a while.
For the rest of us, they will act as a convenient douche alert.
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With the fluff stripped, still impossible to repair sensibly and still a battery you can't replace.
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I don't know about your friends, but with mine it would only earn you ridicule for being duped into buying an overpriced, overhyped cellphone.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
What do you think the appropriate price for this phone is? And the correct amount of hype?
$100.00 and a special feature in the Walmart flyer.
which have very limited usage in large quantities
Gold is a noble metal, diamond is one of the hardest substances on the planet. Both have incredibly vast uses in high quantities.
I think what you meant was in large single sizes. There's little use for a single large diamond, but the same weight in diamond dust you'd think would be worth it's weight in ... diamond. Whereas in fact it costs so little that we use it expendebly. Gold likewise finds its greatest utility in its smallest thickness rather than its biggest chunk.
And shiny. You forgot shiny. Please try to stick to the script as written.
It sort of strange that gold and diamonds, which have very limited usage in large quantities, are considered intrinsicly valuable, while a pocket computer with thousands of man-years of effort behind it, and craftsmanship down to the nanometer is thought of as something that should be dirt cheap.
The answer is simple. It's supply and demand. The why is complex and requires more time and effort to fully understand:
The total quantity of gold that has ever been mined, which is somewhat less than what remains today in human hands, wouldn't fill the volume of an Olympic sized swimming pool and yet, because it was scarce, easy to recognize, hard to counterfeit, portable and resistant to corrosion it served mankind as a primary monetary commodity for millennia. The present value of gold is closely intertwined with it's long history as a money. Today it serves mostly as an alternative and contrarian currency which, despite sincere efforts by the governments of this world, maintains some degree of autonomy as a store of wealth and medium of exchange. There are other practical uses, in electronics or dentistry for example, but these uses are dwarfed by the amount of gold held for monetary reasons.
Diamonds used to be valuable because of their extreme rarity because until the about 1725 the only known source was in India and diamonds, especially large ones, were extreme luxury goods of the sort that were enjoyed mostly by the nobility and royalty. By the late 19th century this had changed as more sources were found, the science of geology advanced to the point where the conditions that formed diamonds were much better understood and could be used to seek out new sources and places with mining potential. It wasn't long before the De Beers company was founded and consolidated control to monopolize diamond mining and production. This was necessary because without a monopoly to control supply, prices would have collapsed since diamonds are not nearly as rare as gold in the natural environment. However, the popularity of the diamond as an engagement gift was the result of what is widely considered to be on of the most clever marketing campaigns ever conceived, but which didn't begin until 1938. You've heard the slogan "A diamond is forever?", yeah that's the one. So in actuality the modern perception of diamonds as a thing of value was largely a creation of late 19th and early 20th century marketing combined with artificial scarcity imposed by monopoly and therefore a modern creation. Compare this to gold which was has been valued as money for thousands of years before anyone thought to pick up or polish a diamond.
Of course, these are not exhaustive explanations, but I think that they capture the essence of why diamonds and gold remain relatively valuable today despite their limited more practical uses.
Bingo. Paying more than $100 that for a phone is ridiculous. At that point what you're really buying is a luxury good that functions as a phone and not the strict necessity of a mobile device.
What is the maximum price youâ(TM)d pay for a pair of shoes or a bottle of whine? Does luxury start immediately at âoemore expensive than the cheapestâ?
Whatâ(TM)s $1000 for something you will use 50 times a day every day for years? If you can afford it? I donâ(TM)t get the hate, even if I wonâ(TM)t buy this thing.
I think what you meant was in large single sizes. There's little use for a single large diamond, but the same weight in diamond dust you'd think would be worth it's weight in ... diamond. Whereas in fact it costs so little that we use it expendebly.
We manufacture that diamond dust. Why would you think it would be expensive?
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Because those devices are cheap. You can get a phone that is 99% as good as the most expensive models for a few hundred bucks. In fact the cheaper one night be better, having a headphone socket, SD card and USB-C.
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But part of it is rational. Gold has an intrinsic value due to the exchange we assign to it, exchange between currency and gold as a commodity. Think of it as an elaborated piggy bank which does not follow the same principle or valuation than money. The other part which is more rational is that you can mass produce iphone for more or less a flat energy curve. You cannot mass produce gold in the same way, as rarity increase energy requirement do too. Thus it acquire a scarcity which manufactured object do not.
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We can also manufacture large diamonds for a fraction of what they actually sell. Point is, these materials are only worth excessive amounts in very specific forms. The raw materials are significantly cheaper in different forms and yet insanely useful.
So we're talking about a piece of fashion or bling rather than a cellphone?
Ok, now it starts to make a lot more sense. I thought it's supposed to be a tool, but instead it seems only the one using it is one.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
It should be dirt cheap because its value will drop to 0 in a few years. I don't mind paying $1000 for a device I can use for 10 years. Expecting me to buy another in 2, on the other hand, is taking the piss. When the phone maker and everyone who writes software for it treat the device as disposable, it better have a disposable price tag.
True, but the manufactured diamonds are often 'too perfect' to be natural diamonds. So a mechanism for documenting a diamond's provenance has been developed. It is claimed that it is to protect victims of oppression in the diamond mining business, but really it's to shore up the idea that 'natural' diamonds are more valuable than cheaply produced 'synthetic' diamonds.
The synthetic diamonds may be easy and cheap to produce, but their existence messes with the pyramid scheme that the diamond jewelry business has evolved into over the last century.
That doesn't really make iOS 'Slashdot friendly.' Because the line-noise phenomena that iOS 11 creates when somebody running it posts on Slashdot is a useful function for identifying 'leading edge' Apple Gadget users. It helps us suss them out and aids in evaluating what they post.
And no, Slashdot isn't joining the particular flavor of '21st century' that Apple promotes. Thank goodness.
This should be at +5
I got so caught up in the hyperbolic over-exaggerated excitement (best hyperbole ever, guys), that I forgot to take the time to jizz myself over the PCB photo's.
Indeed. Anyone shitty enough to think that people who buy nice things are douches are simply projecting, and should be avoided at all costs. Or killed in as painful a manner as can be contrived under the circumstances. Because, face it, you have no redeeming qualities at all.
Why would you get rid of an iPhone after only 2 years? Are you that clumsy? Or are you a piece of shit with nothing better to do with your life than complain that "someone" makes you get rid of a perfectly good phone?
Do you live in a ghetto? Perhaps you should move to a better neighborhood, where people don't impress others with an Apple logo. I guess it's better for your ego, though, to hide in your cloud of smug. I mean shit.
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That's Apple's own expectation. You're the new FakeTimCook apologist. I feel bad for you, you come across as pathetic.
That's Apple's own expectation.
You're the new FakeTimCook apologist. I feel bad for you, you come across as pathetic.
And it isn't Samsung's expectation?
At least Apple will still be offering regular OS Updates for that phone for 5 years or more. They are still supporting the iPhone 5s, FFS, and up to a few weeks ago, even supported the 32 bit iPhone 5. But now that they are 64-bit only, I suspect that support for the 5s and up will continue for at least a few more years.
It has been my observation that 2 year-old phones are often unusably slow when trying to run the latest OS (which you need for the security updates), or they're abandoned altogether. Maybe this is more prevalent in the Android world, but has made me wary of spending a lot of money on a phone.
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187000 tonnes of gold has been mined through time at 19000 kg/m^3 is 9842 m^3 of gold. An Olympic swimming pool is 2500m^3 or about 4 pools worth.
That's Apple's own expectation.
No it isn't. https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-expects-people-to-use-their-iphones-for-3-years-on-average/ 3 years is - and then they fully expect you to habd it to somebody else to use it for some more time.
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