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First iPhone 3Gs Sold and Disassembled

Sharpie?

Now that is curious how for some reason someone was paid to black out the recycle symbol on millions of iPhone batteries. I wonder what that's all about...:confused:
 
sananda said:
i would very much like to know the answer to this too.
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Thirded.

The nice thing about the battery not being soldered onto the board is in-store replacement. If you go into the Apple store and need the battery replaced, the genius can unscrew the casing, replace the battery, and put it back together and you're on your way. Instead of having to send it out. So instead of having to worry about being phoneless for a few days or a week, you're in and out in an hour or so.
 
powermac_daddy said:
it's just a phone with other functions. people who are crazy about the iPhone need to get a life.

maybe someday i will get one too. i don't see the point right now. half the price, twice much faster, but then you pay more for the plan. it's the same as before.
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If the people who are excited about getting an iPhone need to get a life, what does it say about the people who aren't even getting one, yet are taking the time to read and post on an iPhone forum thread?
 
powermac_daddy said:
i was talking about that excitement. why so excited about a phone? just ask yourself this... therefore i said "get a life".
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I'm pretty excited about them, but I'm not getting one. Can't afford it. I figure that in about four or five years when I can afford it they'll be even better :D
 
It's not thinner...

It blows my mind how effective apple marketing is. Steve Jobs claims that the new iphone is "thinner," despite the fact that it is, in reality, thicker. Everyone believes him anyway. Even iPhone-obsessed nerds who travel around the world to get one a few hours earlier are completely unable to see past the "thinner" marketing for what the new phone really is.

These guys actually went so far as to say in the write-up of the iphone deconstruction that it is .48" thick, and that that is .02" thinner than the old iphone.

THE OLD IPHONE WAS ONLY .46" THICK! :D The math here is simple people...

All "thinner at the edges" BS aside, the new iphone is thicker than the old. How is it that nobody, even those that pour over the iphone's specs in great detail, realizes that?

Overall the 3g iphone is still great and all, but it would have been nice if it could have been thinned down a little bit (in reality, not just in marketing lies) using a whole year worth of new technology.
 
m-dogg said:
One thing I've been curious about is whether there is room for 1 or 2 flash memory chips in the new iPhone.

I thought I read at some point that the reason the iPhone is only available with up to 16 GB but the Touch is available with up to 32 GB is that the Touch has room to fit two chips inside it while the iPhone only has room for one. Because of that, the Touch can keep costs down by using two 16 GB chips to achieve 32 GB, but that the iPhone would have to use a single (more expensive) 32 GB chip to achieve the same capacity.

Can anyone with a better understanding of technology innards tell by looking at these pictures if that is still the case? I don't understand this stuff enough to tell this on my own...
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Can't tell you much but:


1. This is the 8GB iPhone, so you'd think that if they wanted to cut costs on the 16GB version the 8GB version would have an open space for a second 8GB chip. I see no such open space.

2. If the 8GB was 2x4GB, then you'd expect a pair of identical chips co-located on the board. Again, I see no such chips.

3. By the chip identification (provided by iFixit), the 3050M0Y0CE chip in the top-right of http://live.ifixit.com/images/2a.jpg is an Intel NOR flash chip. Not sure if that's the main flash or not, but it's one of the larger chips and it doesn't seem possible for a second such chip to be placed anywhere near it.

4. The above-identified chip has a green dot on the corner. I'm assuming iFixIt didn't put that there, but that it was put there during assembly. If the only difference between the iPhone 8gb and 16gb boards is this chip, then it would make sense that the 16GB version of this chip would have a different colored dot to ensure no mix-ups on the factory floor. That's my theory, anyway. Seems to slightly support the theory that this is the one singular memory chip and that there is no dual-chip board out there.

In conclusion: a two-chip iPhone would require a different board design and layout. It's unlikely that they would do such a thing. So, if the iPod Touch does indeed have space for two chips, that may explain the higher capacities on the Touch relative to the iPhone.
 
Seems expensive to fly to New Zealand just to take apart a phone. Why not simply find some one who lives there to take it apart and email the photos? Even if you had to pay him $50 and hour. Is there that much money in ad revenue?
 
What is twice as fast?

In Apple adds, they claim "Twice as fast", Is the cpu of this new iPhone faster or the same speed as the old iPhone? Or maybe it's 3G that's twice as fast as Edge?
 
lupin..the..3rd said:
*yawn* call me when the iPhone doesn't suck, and maybe I'll buy one.
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Brrrrriiinggg...Brrrrriinggg...

"Hello?"

"Yes, is this Mr. Lupin?"

"Why yes it is"

"Thank you sir, we're just calling to inform you that the iPhone does not suck. Have a nice day"

"Thank you so much, I'm on the way to the Apple store now."
 
Anyone know if the antenna is on top or bottom like the current one?

SirOmega said:
The nice thing about the battery not being soldered onto the board is in-store replacement. If you go into the Apple store and need the battery replaced, the genius can unscrew the casing, replace the battery, and put it back together and you're on your way. Instead of having to send it out. So instead of having to worry about being phoneless for a few days or a week, you're in and out in an hour or so.
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More like 15-30 minutes. Probably closer to 15 minutes. Maybe even shorter.
 
bobborries said:
In Apple adds, they claim "Twice as fast", Is the cpu of this new iPhone faster or the same speed as the old iPhone? Or maybe it's 3G that's twice as fast as Edge?
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I'd really like to know this also.

The "twice as fast" claim is definitely referring to 3g, but I'd also like to know if they put in a different processor. I'm balancing the increased cost against the small improvements this phone has over my current iPhone, and if I knew there would be a snappier response time to various computing tasks, that would be a huge plus. As things are right now I have to wait about a half second after opening some programs (like calendar). If that was only a quarter second on the new phone that would be an enormous improvement when you consider the thousands of minor hesitations per week I'd be minimizing.

Heck, with the obvious concern over battery life on their minds, they may have even put in a slightly slower processor!
 
tigertrainer said:
Now that is curious how for some reason someone was paid to black out the recycle symbol on millions of iPhone batteries. I wonder what that's all about...:confused:
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Don't forget, this is a New Zealand iPhone (as it has the country specific power adapter). Maybe NZ isn't set up to recycle this battery so they blacked it out only for NZ phones... which certainly don't number in the millions.

It will be interesting to see if the US spec iPhone has the same blackout or not.
 
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