iFixit Tears Down the iPhone 5 As It Goes On Sale in Australia

[lilpete]

Love that line! Reminds me of a quote from Charles Schulz (creator of the Peanuts comic strip):

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."

It's funny cos from here, you guys are still living in yesterday

 

[kalsta]

It's funny cos from here, you guys are still living in yesterday

Wadya mean 'you guys'?!


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[janderson0719]

Anyone replying to this post, cares.

So don't even come on here asking "who cares?"...

...YOU do.

No, doesn't mean they care for the topic but rather post for other intentions.

Thanks for the credit. See what I mean.

 

[inscrewtable]

...it's already tomorrow.

I'm in Australia and I can assure you that I am not writing this from the future. It feels very much like today.

There will be a fews tears falling down from people seeing that teardown.

 

[lilo777]

Looks so much cleaner and well built then all the mock ups we were seeing pre release. 1 more day can't wait!

That's not it. The pictures of all leaked parts were taken with iPhone, iFixit uses DSLR.

 

[Gooberton]

ARGGGGG UPS still has my iphone 5 hostage!

neither funny nor interesting comment.

 

[machestnut]

Its a FAKE FAKE FAKE

 

[GoreVidal]

That's dedication.

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its a fake fake fake

fake fake fake...

Fake your booty...

Fake your booty!!!

 

[kkent25]

Pretty cool! It looks just like the insides of....a cell phone!

 

[dave420]

Great even more difficult to fix a spidered screen.

The first page of the article seems to imply that it will actually be easier to replace the screen than on the 4/4S.

 

[iapplelove]

Image
that's one long battery

that's one long phone.

 

[Stetrain]

Great even more difficult to fix a spidered screen.

Image

Explain?

On the 4 and 4S the screen was very difficult to replace. You had to remove practically every other component first.

On the 5 the screen is the first component to come off. It looks like a screen assembly swap would take just a minute or two.

 

[mac*jedi*g]

Oh great. Now I can't wait for the "Does it Blend?" guy for his presentation.

 

[bacaramac]

I'll save you all some time. Shockingly, it's not very user-repairable. Screw you, iFixIt, no one cares.

How do people like you even survive in this world. Don't be mad.

I for one love these tear downs. The build quality and attention to detail is amazing.

 

[DELTAsnake]

Looks like if you break the small glass panels on the back your in for a major repair job.

 

[Iconoclysm]

How do people like you even survive in this world. Don't be mad.

I for one love these tear downs. The build quality and attention to detail is amazing.

He's referring to iFixit's temper tantrum over the MBPr.

 

[Zoidberg79]

Just got iPhone 5 from apple Robina. No lightning adaptor. Supposed to be in store October. No cases for iPhone 5 either.

 

[jlake02]

That's a good sized battery in there.

I'm actually incredibly discouraged that it only went up 2 mAh.

Seriously?!? 2?!

I'm HOPING they found some way to make that terrible ~1430 mAh last longer but I'm sick and tired of Apple focusing so much on thinness and not enough on battery life. My wife's 4S is absolutely horrible. Can't make it until 3-4 PM most days. (And yes, I've tried everything possible.)

I'm going to stay optimistic because reviews seemed to suggest battery life is OK on i5 but I'm definitely skeptical.

 

[Dr Kevorkian94]

idk why but i want some soda........any way ill be lining up in about 7 or 8 hrs and i somewhat find this interesting

 

[mex4eric]

Keep up the good work. These are always amazing pictures and make one appreciate these cleverly packed products. Yea Apple and yea iFixit.

 

[Shanpdx]

Anandtech

anandtech would love to see the pictures, they will have a good review analyzing the iPhone 5 very thoroughly

gotta wait till at least couple of weeks.

not sure no review from theverge too ...

 

[flopticalcube]

This thread brought to you by Samsung.

 

[Zaft]

How in the world is it getting 8 hours of 4G on basically the same size battery????? Black magic??!?

 

[cavemonkey50]

How in the world is it getting 8 hours of 4G on basically the same size battery????? Black magic??!?

A6 processor plus LTE on a single chip.

 

[RVdave]

That thing looks solidly packed. Just for laughs someone should measure the volume of all the components compared to the total volume of the phone and see how much is left.

Just throw it into an aquarium and count the bubbles....isn't that what Steve did.