First Look Inside iPhone 13 Reveals Revamped TrueDepth System, Smaller Taptic Engine, and Larger Battery

[AbSoluTc]

The taptic engine hasn't shrunk, it just changed shape. Lol. New technology makes things smaller, better.

 

[MrGimper]

Still holding on to my XS with 3D touch

Hopefully with an iOS installed that still implements it....

 

[DanTSX]

So it is basically a 12S

 

[Jupiter9]

New technology makes things smaller, better.

It's obvious they are shrinking it because it's not needed anymore since they got rid of 3d touch. It's not a progression in technology.

 

[xpxp2002]

It's obvious they are shrinking it because it's not needed anymore since they got rid of 3d touch. It's not a progression in technology.

That has nothing to do with 3D Touch not being present.

Haptics generated by that Haptics Engine are still used for feedback to long press “Haptic Touch” and all of the vibration alerts, including for calls and messages.

Those haven’t changed in intensity because of a lack of 3D Touch.

 

[Morgenland]

No kudos for Sonny. Whoever disassembles his iphone so frantically, just to be the first on the internet, makes a fool of himself in my eyes. I will wait for FixIt, they understand what they are doing.

 

[Nozuka]

The Mini already had a very small taptic engine. Have not had any problems with it so far.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

The review we all have been waiting for… it’s finally posted

 

[Spock]

People ask for a bigger battery and Apple does so, then those same people complain that the vibration motor looks smaller. I would rather have a bigger battery.

 

[Razorpit]

People ask for a bigger battery and Apple does so, then those same people complain that the vibration motor looks smaller. I would rather have a bigger battery.

"The logical conclusion is to have both."

 

[Rob198612]

hmm, how did they get an iPhone early for a teardown? (are they that stupid to teardown a apple supplied review unit) idk I'm just asking don't know source of this unit

 

[cmaier]

Why is the notch taller then it should have been smaller

It is smaller. Taller but smaller.

 

[cmaier]

Whoever disassembles his iphone so frantically, just to be the first on the internet, makes a fool of himself

One time I got that in a fortune cookie.

 

[supergt]

iPhone 15: just a battery with a notch.

 

[incoherent_1]

Last year, did they decrease the Taptic Engine in the 12 and the 12 Pro? Or just the 12?

 

[incoherent_1]

No kudos for Sonny. Whoever disassembles his iphone so frantically, just to be the first on the internet, makes a fool of himself in my eyes. I will wait for FixIt, they understand what they are doing.

While it requires plenty of care and know-how, it’s not as difficult to operate on an iPhone as many think (I replaced my own screen once when on a work site in the middle of nowhere — I needed plenty of How To videos, but managed to make it work)

 

[gentlefury]

Guess everyone is different, I’d rather a thicker phone and not have to carry anything else with me.

Same. I'll take a thicker phone that easily lasts all day over a thin phone any day. I had a samsung phone once several years ago...it was a thin, light slab of glass. It was dead by lunch.

 

[gentlefury]

No thanks. Larger batteries will be heavier, and these phones are already too heavy.

If a few grams is too heavy....maybe you need to exercise more.

 

[ElectricPotato]

Why is the notch taller then it should have been smaller

because the speaker in the notch was moved to the top

These lines have the cadence of a Cat in the Hat book.

 

[svish]

Larger battery is welcome. Looking forward to seeing the full teardown of the new iPhones

 

[_Spinn_]

It is always interesting to see these teardowns.

 

[IIGS User]

You had me at larger battery.

Tom's reviewed the 13 pro Max as having 12+ hours of battery life (continuous 5G web use at @150 nits).

It's a battery beast.

I don't care if it's a little heavier. The metal case I got from Amazon makes it even HEAVIER. I almost never hold the thing to my face to make phone calls, and I all ready carry a 900g "accessory" with me just about every place I go as it is, so it's almost always in a back pack, or a cargo pant pocket, or Car Play.

I may have missed it, but anyone know if the specs changed on the 5G chip for US models? My Google-foo is off today.

 

[jbrwTP7u]

I was thinking about buying 13 Pro Max. So far i have found some drawbacks vs XS Max.

• no 3D Touch
• A15 is marginally better than A14 (still not enough to ditch the XS Max)
• USB2.0 (painfully slow backup still)
• 6GB of RAM (i hoped for 8GB)

At this stage, I can't justify dishing out 1500€ for a phone that will bring me again some frustrating things and XS Max works fine.

The same thing is with the Apple Watch. I wanted a flat design and I would bite the bullet with a mediocre battery, but they had to postpone it...

 

[Rigby]

I'm always amazed how tidy iPhones look on the inside. Perhaps they should make a version with a transparent back, like some Swiss watches have.

 

[Gnattu]

Their SSDs in their phones sure are a heck of a lot slower than I’d like them to be. Windows 10 loads 3 times faster on my NVMe PCIe 4 ssd than iOS loads on the iPhone.

Well, OS boot time not only depends on the IO speed of the SSD. Macs have a long boot up time on both Intel and AS as well. Apple does some weird things when you power on your machine like cryptographically verify each and every step of the booting process uses stuff signed by Apple so that boot proceeds only after verifying the chain of trust.