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iFixit's iPhone X Teardown Reveals Two Battery Cells, 'Unprecedented' Logic Board (macrumors.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the what's-inside dept.

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.

89 comments

  1. Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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!

    1. Re:Wow by 110010001000 · · Score: 4, Funny

      It is very Impressive that an esteemed industry leader like you Would Randomly capitalize Words. Are you an expert on Host Files too?

    2. Re:Wow by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I agree that the engineering is impressive. TFA shows the front of the PCB, and here is the back. More than half the real estate is covered in BGAs. Anyone know how many layers were used? It even looks like it has a removable battery.

      My wife has one on order, but, alas, I don't think she will let me disassemble it.

    3. Re:Wow by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1

      But do you earn $50,000 a year in Silicon Valley?

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    4. Re:Wow by Tuidjy · · Score: 1

      Can you survive on $50,000 per year in Silicon Valley? I've got single friends who complain about surviving on $80,000.

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    5. Re:Wow by rainer_d · · Score: 2

      https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

      Apple is the first to market with new, dense circuit board design called Stacked SLP, often referred to misleadingly as a "stacked logic board". Today's phones use 10 layers of copper on the PCB. Stacked SLP uses 20. This permits for a higher density of components in a given surface area. The iPhone X had also been tipped to have a 10-layer AP board, eight-layer RF board and two layers of interposers.

      Even The Register is impressed. That must mean something.

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    6. Re:Wow by e432776 · · Score: 1

      amazing that it got a 6 out of 10 for "repairabilty". The trend seems to be with tech that the newer (thinner) models are less and less repairable.

    7. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      I'm a PhD at a leading think tank currently rogering your mother on the stairs of the local church of Satan if assertions are good enough credentials for this thread, and boy is she feisty!

    8. Re:Wow by thegarbz · · Score: 2

      This is very, very impressive.

      I have to agree. I happily shit on Apple every chance I get, but the main PCB sandwich gave me a huge metaphorical (and partially literal) stiffy.

    9. Re:Wow by drinkypoo · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      This is very, very impressive.

      Unlike your copypasta pro-Apple spam. Was that a paid advertisement, or do you just put on a fresh black turtleneck every morning?

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    10. Re:Wow by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      I wonder how robust the board will be with those large BGA packages on it.

      We have already seen some models falling when stressed by bending as the large ICs come away from the PCB. Samsung had that issue years ago and solved it by switching to smaller packages, and making their phones less bendy.

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    11. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You astro-turfers don't even try anymore. Sad.

    12. Re:Wow by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 1

      Well...he needs to capitalize on his experience somehow at least.

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    13. Re:Wow by smallfries · · Score: 1

      Certainly that is an precedented (and partially unwarranted) level of detail.

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    14. Re: Wow by Brockmire · · Score: 1

      We had taken on a project that another company dropped the ball on. It was designed with a PCB that had a 6- layer and an 8-layer PCB stuck together. It became a production and QA nightmare as it would warp. When they say they are first with this technology, I immediately thought, "Uh oh, they're going to run into so many unexpected issues". I wonder how 20-layers will handle frequent bending and flexing. I assume they've done the drop tests and passed, as well as self interference. So hard to ensure you're not bleeding RF into other parts of the system.

    15. Re: Wow by rainer_d · · Score: 1

      I'll just assume that it helps to have a multi-billion dollar research budget...

      Bringing this to a prototype-stage is one thing - getting it into volume-production is something completely different.

      Does Foxconn also make the PCBs - or do they just assemble them?

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  2. AADERGT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    HAHAHA

  3. Things that don't matter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Fixing broken bling. Even a broken bling phone is better than anything else. Period.

  4. yawn by fluffernutter · · Score: 0

    It's still a phone to me, like every other phone.

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    1. Re:yawn by 110010001000 · · Score: 1, Funny

      It has unprecedented density of connectors and components, all for only $1,000+. Does your phone have that?

    2. Re:yawn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Mine has a headphone jack.

    3. Re:yawn by 110010001000 · · Score: 1

      You lack courage. I am courageous enough to pay $1,000+ for a phone with a headphone jack.

    4. Re:yawn by l33t+j03 · · Score: 0

      It ships with a headphone jack dummy.

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    5. Re:yawn by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      That's stupid. It should ship with a real one.

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    6. Re:yawn by fluffernutter · · Score: 1

      But you can't charge at the same time, so lets call it a 'handicapped' headphone jack.

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    7. Re:yawn by Dr_Terminus · · Score: 1

      It has Qi wireless charging, so you don't need the lightning connector to charge...

    8. Re:yawn by Dog-Cow · · Score: 1

      I'll try and remember that on the commute home, in the bus with USB ports and nary a wireless charging pad.

    9. Re:yawn by Dr_Terminus · · Score: 1

      Oh my... you still use wired headphones when you're out and about?

    10. Re: yawn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why? 3.5mm jacks are ancient tech that needs to be killed off and replaced with usb-c. Then we can have higher quality audio, hell we could have true Dolby Atmos from phone to receiver.

      Think of all the other possibilities of using usb-c instead of 3.5mm jacks. It's not that difficult for headphone makers to put USB cables on instead of headphone jacks.

      I don't know about you but I appreciate the forward March of technology

    11. Re:yawn by fluffernutter · · Score: 1

      Ah the Apple fan, always willing to buy something else to solve a problem that shouldn't have been there in the first place.

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    12. Re: yawn by Brockmire · · Score: 1

      You remind me of my nephew that doesn't miss a chance to ask a stupid question right after hearing something. And then I'll rant, "What the fuck did I just say? Are you even listening? I just fucking said that, why are you asking me to repeat when you clearly heard and understood me?" He picked up this super annoying thing from my brother. It's like he's taking the thing you do to pretend you're listening to your girlfriend bitch about something while not really listening.

    13. Re: yawn by Dr_Terminus · · Score: 1

      Interesting, but what do you think about the state of haberdashers these days?

    14. Re: yawn by n329619 · · Score: 1

      Think of all the other possibilities of using usb-c instead of 3.5mm jacks.

      breaking a guitar amp in 1.2seconds with the usb-c when you could have use the 3.5mm jack with an adapter.

    15. Re:yawn by the_skywise · · Score: 1

      Mine has a cassette player!

  5. This is an illegal DMCA violation. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    As a responsible Apple Corp citizen, I have reported this appalling criminal action to Mssr. Tim Cook so this instigating miscreant can be properly dealt with extreme prejudice.

  6. Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Did they find the large chunk of pure-strain gold that would make the phone cost over $1000? I can only assume each phone contains some hunk of precious metal or a quantity of high quality diamonds, because there's no other reason a phone should cost that much. Especially one with no headphone jack and no fingerprint sensor.

    1. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by glennrrr · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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.

    2. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      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.

    3. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by tquasar · · Score: 1

      The extraction of gold and diamonds is controlled to maintain an artificial scarcity that keeps prices high.

    4. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Misagon · · Score: 1

      That depends on who your friends are ...

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    5. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by sysrammer · · Score: 1

      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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    6. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Opportunist · · Score: 0

      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.

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    7. Re: Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Dixie_Flatline · · Score: 1, Interesting

      What do you think the appropriate price for this phone is? And the correct amount of hype?

    8. Re: Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      $100.00 and a special feature in the Walmart flyer.

    9. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      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.

    10. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      an overpriced, overhyped cellphone.

      And shiny. You forgot shiny. Please try to stick to the script as written.

    11. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      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.

    12. Re: Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      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.

    13. Re: Did they find the pure-strain gold? by joh · · Score: 1

      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.

    14. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

      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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    15. Re: Did they find the pure-strain gold? by cyber-vandal · · Score: 1

      To make iOS 11 Slashdot friendly (because they're not joining the 21st century any time soon) go to Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Smart Punctuation and turn it off.

    16. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 1

      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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    17. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by thegarbz · · Score: 1

      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.

    18. Re: Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      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.

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    19. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by hackertourist · · Score: 1

      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.

    20. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 1

      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.

    21. Re: Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 1

      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.

    22. Re: Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This should be at +5

    23. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Dog-Cow · · Score: 1

      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.

    24. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Dog-Cow · · Score: 1

      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?

    25. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Dog-Cow · · Score: 1

      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.

    26. Re: Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Brockmire · · Score: 1

      IPhone douche confirmed. See, it works!

    27. Re: Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Brockmire · · Score: 1

      That's Apple's own expectation. You're the new FakeTimCook apologist. I feel bad for you, you come across as pathetic.

    28. Re: Did they find the pure-strain gold? by TheFakeTimCook · · Score: 1

      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.

    29. Re:Did they find the pure-strain gold? by hackertourist · · Score: 1

      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.

    30. Re: Did they find the pure-strain gold? by SETY · · Score: 1

      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.

    31. Re: Did they find the pure-strain gold? by Plumpaquatsch · · Score: 1

      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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  7. Meh. by PPH · · Score: 1

    Stand by for my Western Electric 2500DM teardown.

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    1. Re:Meh. by Misagon · · Score: 1

      I love the two-tone design of the 2500 DM, especially on the beige variant but the two-tone green looks great as well.
      I wish though that the buttons were not all grey but followed the overall design of the device.

      A big plus however that the buttons are double-shot moulded thick ABS and not some cheap pad-printed crap like on low-end phones -- or with no legends at all like some company that used to make good computers.

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    2. Re:Meh. by sheramil · · Score: 1

      I'm going to wait for a serious internals review. Like "will it blend?".

    3. Re:Meh. by Megane · · Score: 1

      The best color for the WE2500 is red, harkening back to the cold war days, when red phones were used for direct communication lines to rival government leaders. How about a nice game of chess?

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    4. Re:Meh. by Megane · · Score: 1

      A Western Electronics product is one of the few things I would not be sure that it could blend.

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    5. Re:Meh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You might like:

      http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5612192/

      Or this guy:

      https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWv6Pn_zP0rI6lgGt3MyfA

    6. Re:Meh. by Bing+Tsher+E · · Score: 1

      I am saddened that my 2500 sets are now, for the moment, unusable in my home. I need to find an affordable VOIP solution to plug my entire house full of extension phones into so I can restore the 2500 sets' use. CenturyLink can rot in hell, of course.

    7. Re:Meh. by PPH · · Score: 1

      when red phones were used for direct communication lines to rival government leaders

      In mythology and the movies only. The actual 'red phone' was a teletype.

      On a related note: Many years ago, I helped a friend wire in an extension phone. On the little paper tag for the phone number, I wrote "KREMLIN HOTLINE" (with a backwards R). It remains there to this day.

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  8. Some suprises by burtosis · · Score: 1

    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.

  9. Pinnacle of human innovation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I can confidently say that the bar is set so high that it will never be topped.

  10. YES! by wonkavader · · Score: 1

    Please do one. I haven't seen one of those in years, but I think the last one I saw I did dissemble.

  11. shill on man! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    All of the â(TM) copy-paste shit gives you away.

  12. In other words by Opportunist · · Score: 0

    With the fluff stripped, still impossible to repair sensibly and still a battery you can't replace.

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    1. Re:In other words by hey! · · Score: 1

      Getting at the battery doesn't look so bad. Clearly it's not supposed to be user serviceable, but it *is* serviceable without serious risk of damaging the phone.

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    2. Re:In other words by Trax3001BBS · · Score: 0

      Getting at the battery doesn't look so bad. Clearly it's not supposed to be user serviceable, but it *is* serviceable without serious risk of damaging the phone.

      Your right. Sometimes one needs to hard boot a phone by removing the battery, it takes me 14 screws just to see it. https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfr... (Pix used by Ifixit.com). I'm not a happy camper.

    3. Re:In other words by Opportunist · · Score: 0

      In theory, yes. In practice, does the system detect the change and brick the phone if it's not been done by a techpriest that has been blessed by the Adeptus Mechanicus?

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    4. Re:In other words by Dog-Cow · · Score: 1

      I've never had that experience with an iPhone, and I've used most models for development work, which tends to do the screwiest things to devices. Perhaps you should be using a better class of phone, if that's really a problem for you.

    5. Re:In other words by Trax3001BBS · · Score: 1

      I've never had that experience with an iPhone, and I've used most models for development work, which tends to do the screwiest things to devices. Perhaps you should be using a better class of phone, if that's really a problem for you.

      Misspoke, a hard reset not a reboot.

      Right now my phone has lost showing the time out of the pocket, a hard reset or to turn off and remove the battery for awhile would fix that. Never owned an Apple phone.

  13. part of it is irrational by aepervius · · Score: 1

    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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  14. nnn by bico540 · · Score: 0

    http://www.al-awa2el.com/%25 http://www.al-awa2el.com/%25

  15. Wow. by ShamblerBishop · · Score: 0

    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.

  16. nnn by bico540 · · Score: 0

    http://www.al-awa2el.com/%25 http://www.al-awa2el.com/%25