The pro max is amazing! Loving this phone 😤
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iFixit Teardown Provides Look Inside iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
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I don’t that’s how it works. It’s slightly bigger, because Apple thinks that’s what people want. Then that change allows for camera improvements and battery adjustments.
I know in the past they've done teardown in New Zealand or Australia on release day to use the timezone differences to be first out with a teardown, but I'm pretty sure that's not the case here as we are now a week after release and mmWave is only available in the US models, so this has to be a US spec phone.
Kudos for such a big change, finally you can pull battery from the back. Hoping they build on this hardware advancement in the future models as well. Wasn’t a fan of adhesives but not really sure low voltage heating is any better. If would have been nice if it had Lego brick-like holders inside
lol so only the small Pro model has metal enclosure on the battery for better thermal performance?
Love seeing the technical artistry inside these devices when opened, however I do not care about repairability at all, and this does not sway my decisions. I have never ever had to have a single iPhone repaired in my life for any hardware faults and not a single battery issue and not a single cracked screen - I do always have AppleCare as a backup plan just in case but never had to use it once. I don’t keep these for longer than two years as I usually trade it in / trade up to a new model with my provider. Repairability for myself is not relevant as I do not and will not keep these devices for many years.
Plenty of us do care, though, and I tend to hand down or give away my retired phones ones of trading them, and I prefer to hand them down with a fresh battery.
In general, people are keeping their phones longer, so battery replaceabily matters. 3-4 years is becoming the norm.
So X75 was just a rumor? I thought maybe Apple had claimed it was an X75 and it turned out that was false. That would've been a story.
people want wireless charging, so it has to be glass.
people want water resistance so phone has to be sealed.
priorities are messed up.
i am waiting for 6G, 5G is not fast enough for me, i want to watch 8K youtube videos on my phone.
If you research what happened there wasn’t third party parts involved. Built in a licensed factory from modified factory parts. The danger to average person is nonexistent.
As much as I am a spec sheet geek and academically can appreciate what the X75 might offer, I have yet to find myself in a situation where I am:
1. In a "fringe" area of a network where a more competent baseband would result in improved throughput or connectivity to 5G UWB (I mean, UWB is still a rarity, and where I have it I generally am stationary and have solid WiFi 6E and even 7 networks available....)
2. Need to move that much data on my handset that current 5G as is is not sufficing.
So, this was likely a non-trivial per unit cost in the BoM to go X71 vs X75/80, and if that was put elsewhere, even in something cosmetic, well, I still think, at least for me, where I frequent, how I work/use the device, it's a far better tradeoff. YMMV, of course, and would love to hear situations where people think this is more than a spec sheet frustration.
If anything, I think the X75/80 likely offer carriers much more return on the consumer's investment than the consumer themselves (which they love!). More capable and smarter handsets probably vastly improve their network topology and planning work and improve coverage without any further investment on their RAN/infra in general and, frankly, I have very little interest in further subsidizing my cellular provider
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1. In a "fringe" area of a network where a more competent baseband would result in improved throughput or connectivity to 5G UWB (I mean, UWB is still a rarity, and where I have it I generally am stationary and have solid WiFi 6E and even 7 networks available....)
2. Need to move that much data on my handset that current 5G as is is not sufficing.
So, this was likely a non-trivial per unit cost in the BoM to go X71 vs X75/80, and if that was put elsewhere, even in something cosmetic, well, I still think, at least for me, where I frequent, how I work/use the device, it's a far better tradeoff. YMMV, of course, and would love to hear situations where people think this is more than a spec sheet frustration.
If anything, I think the X75/80 likely offer carriers much more return on the consumer's investment than the consumer themselves (which they love!). More capable and smarter handsets probably vastly improve their network topology and planning work and improve coverage without any further investment on their RAN/infra in general and, frankly, I have very little interest in further subsidizing my cellular provider
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wow, Apple is such a tease - "hey look how easy it is to tear down this iPhone, but we can't allow you to do that"
I hear 7G will allow 16K YouTube videos. And with a signal so weak you literally have to be standing on the tower to get those speeds.
iPhone 16 Pro/Max are full with surprises...
1. Custom modem (X71)
2. Using M14 OLED materials in their displays vs M12 in regular 16 (14 Pro/15 Pro)
3. Custom IMX903 camera sensor
4. Stacked battery tech in both 16 Pro/Max, but Pro gets it in new fancy case
1. Custom modem (X71)
2. Using M14 OLED materials in their displays vs M12 in regular 16 (14 Pro/15 Pro)
3. Custom IMX903 camera sensor
4. Stacked battery tech in both 16 Pro/Max, but Pro gets it in new fancy case
It's clear that both 16 Pro/Max are using IMX903. It's already confirmed by various analysis. That's why the sensor is 2x faster. It's not the old IMX803 from 14 Pro/15 Pro.
Like I said, even numbers are big changes internally. 16 series are perfect example. Familiar from the outside, big changes inside.
Hey - could you link to those confirmations? I cannot find these anywhere, it's the opposite - seems the 16 Pro/Max are using the same sensor as older models...
The modem is another disappointment, same as battery temps on 16 pro max
WekiHome's video
Also: iOS code
and various places on Weibo and so on.
Also: iOS code
and various places on Weibo and so on.
How is disappointment? The speeds are vastly improved. Does it matter if it's called X75 or X71? It's still custom made modem and improved over the X70. Temperatures if you look everywhere are super improved. I saw no place where it said they are worse or the same.
I don't recall ever seeing these people actually successfully reassembling anything they have torn down. They talk about repairability, but never seem to actually show the outcome of a repair.