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Under “scalpel” iFixit: what’s inside the 4-inch iPhone SE

Is only some gadget to go on sale, as the wizards of the soldering iron, industrial dryer and screwdriver from iFixit immediately seek to dismantle it. Not spared this fate party and iPhone SE, which yesterday went on sale in the countries “first wave”.

The first thing to note is the increased battery capacity. If the iPhone 5 this figure was 1440 mAh, the iPhone 5s has been increased to 1560 mAh, the iPhone SE capacity has reached 1624 mAh. Experts iFixit pay attention to the complicated process of disassembling the phone. For fastening components in large quantities is applied glue, which is extremely complicates or even makes impossible the replacement of individual parts iPhone SE.

Furthermore, to disassemble iPhone SE not just because of the fingerprint scanner Touch ID. Short cable that connects the sensor to the circuit Board does not detach the front panel.

Having studied the filling of the smartphone, experts came to the conclusion that the device is constructed of parts that were used in the four previous iPhone generations. In particular, the iPhone SE uses single-chip platform Apple’s A9 processor production TSMC, which can be found in the iPhone 6s. The iPhone 6s and borrowed chip RAM LPDDR4.

Chip flash memory production Toshiba THGBX5G7D2KLDXG recalls used in the iPhone 6s, but the chip size of 16 GB is made according to the norms of 19 nm, and 15 nm, as shipped Toshiba currently.

Controllers touch screen BCM5976 Broadcom and Texas Instruments 343S0645, which are used in the iPhone SE, was to be found in the iPhone 5s, and the NXP 66V10 responsible for the NFC, first appeared in the iPhone 6s. The latter also applies to motion sensors.

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Modem and RF transceiver migrated to iPhone SE from the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, the audio chips from the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus other components is also taken from previous models. In fact, the list of devices not previously seen in the iPhone, which only includes a power controller Texas Instruments 338S00170, power amp Skyworks SKY77611 and EPCOS antenna switch D5255.

In General, as always, the iPhone SE assembled in such a way as befits a device of this class. The total score, which won the smartphone was 6 out of 10, that is, to carry out repairs in the home quite difficult.

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