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Apple Supplier Shrinks Down Capacitors Needed for 5G iPhone, Freeing Up Valuable Internal Space
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I mean the weight is a little stretch, don't you mean size?
Otherwise I am with you.
Well the millimeter waves (24GHz+) don’t penetrate walls very well so there’s that
Some 5G is at the same frequencies as LTE so nothing to be particularly afraid of there.
Ugh, so now I won’t be able to solder my own aftermarket capacitors to the Logic Board? What a joke. Timmy needs to resign fast.
Maybe with that freed-up space, they can bring back the headphone jack. (I know Tim Cook lacks the common sense to do that.)
Batteries are heavy, 5G will require more power, hence my little “weighs more and/or has worse battery life” point. If they find a way to maintain battery life without adding weight, that’s great.
Weight isn’t as important to me as as my monthly cell phone bill and my phone’s battery life. What’s a 5G cell service bill going to look like? $100 per month for “unlimited” with deprioritization and video throttling? With the iPhone 11, battery life is finally good enough, I just don’t wait to lose that.
Sure hope these aren't the same multilayer surface mount capacitors that tend to crack / burn and in some cases go boom. See Louis Rossman videos
No, because the capacitors would be "thinner" not "smaller".
I'm just amazed at how far they're taking the miniaturization of electrical components. I would have thought by now they'd have reached their limit.
Why do you think smaller caps will make phones warmer?
And the article mentions larger, higher capacity batteries, not smaller ones. Nothing about thinner phones either.
You could build a faraday cage, costs a fortune if you want to nicely integrate it into your house while still being effective. then you have radio silence...
The new Qualcomm top of the line CPU (865) will not have 5G built in, it'll still require a separate 5G chip, which doesn't bode well for power usage. It'll be interesting to see how Apple navigates the 2020 iPhone year with 5G.
but, but.. it did.
yea, apple kind of did it to themselves with their ridiculous naming convention.
Disagree. iPhone 11 is too thick and heavy imo. Why do I want to end the day at 45% instead of 30%? I still charge at night, give me a thinner/lighter iPhone Tim Apple!!
Sort of glad I upgraded this year. I’m going to let next year be the learning curve year and will upgrade again in 2021 when all the stuff is ironed out and working properly. I’m on Sprint and 5G is a going to be a while.
That’s a totally different thing though, because Louis Rossman is using computer applications, not smart phones. I doubt this would be anything related to the nature of those videos you’re referring to.
I remember similar story with one of our supplier that changed material (it was resistor or capacitor) and claimed that it does not affect overall performance however after internal verficiation endurance was affected and they fail more quickly. There is no magic if you reduce physical dimensions or material there is always a lot of downsides that supplier better does not want to mention. This is a consumer product so generally component quality is low but I hope that anyway Apple validated it in low and high temperatures to do not repeat another antenna / keyboard gate.
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They say this about all technology. Never ends up being true. Remember when having phones in our pockets was going to give us all testicular cancer?
Actually, this is news [And relatively interesting]. And your generalization that you made is fairly broad. I would probably shrink what you said down over the course of 10 years to see the differences in terms of how the iPhone has miniaturized internal components. I’d suggest you Google one of the first iPhones internals, and take a look at that compared to the internal structure of the iPhone 11 today, it’s drastically different in just a short timeframe.
