iPhone X Teardown: TrueDepth Camera System, Stacked Logic Board With 3GB RAM, and 2,716 mAh Battery

[Tech198]

Looks like the batteries gained something. Kind of a strange way to do things..

Cut the battery down a bit and separate the other half, then attach it. I could of sworn the battery was bigger fully intact in previous models. Reducing the size of the screws and logic board is clever way to make more space.

Make me thinks, fewer chips, smaller board, and bigger battery.... Soon we may get to the state we may even need a "tweezers" to hold the logic board because its so small *but* look at all that battery space we have now.

 

[RainbowHurrican]

Well, I don’t know about the iPhone X, but I know the Samsung IR scanner caused progressive cumulative problems with my eyes and my husband eventually also started exhibiting symptoms of whatever damage we were incurring that caused our eye pain. It came upon me gradually and got to the point of lingering pain, so I had to stop using Iris scanning.

From what I’ve seen of the iphone demo of the scanning, it is very fast. My Samsung was kind of slow and my glasses might have complicated matters. Apple has in the past demonstrated awareness of such things as metal allergies and chemical sensitivities and made effective efforts to mitigate these reactions in products that touch our skin, such as the straps and backs on the Apple Watch. I think they have taken steps to ensure our eyes and skin will be safe. They say it is. Of course customers should keep after them for more information and report any unusual symptoms associated with the use of the device.

No one knows if there are any long term medical issues with the IR blaster. see theVerge's review to know to see all the dot projections the phone uses. but if there are any issues I sure a lawyer will be there with a class action lawsuit. I'm thinking even second hand IR radiation.
I'm going to wait two years . The IPhone XII will be even better.

 

[curtvaughan]

No, because advancement in technology isn’t linear. We had great leaps this century, but they’ve slowed since the transistor and microprocessor. Batteries little at all. The concepts of computing and storage and processing aren’t likely to undergo conceptual leaps, they’ll just get better.

I agree about Li-ion batteries - that technology has been slow in improving the last 10-15 years. Storage, both with RAM and non-volatile (HDD/SSD), has improved by leaps and bounds since the late 90s. Solid state storage is pretty amazing, both internally and with USB. CPU and GPU speeds and efficiency in power consumption has improved immensely in the last 20 years. Sometimes this is harder to discern in real time response, as most modern software is performing orders of magnitude more complex tasks than was the case even 10 years ago. I have an old MBP (which still works!) that I bought new 11 years ago which has a 2.16 GHz Core Duo 32-bit processor, 1 GB of RAM, and a 80 GB hard drive which seemed really fast with the software it was running back then. I can't remember which version of OSX it originally came with, but the latest iteration I could install on it was 32-bit Snow Leopard, and between CPU, RAM, and HDD limitations it is crawly slow with what "modern" software I can still install on it. I installed a secondary Linux system on it just to run 32-bit, non-Apple software for security and efficiency. It is the oldest computer I currently own, and as long as it runs, I keep it around just to get an anchor on how much computing power has improved in the last 11 years. My earliest computing experience was with PDP-11s and a CDC 6000 series mainframe 40 years ago (no joke, I admit getting old). Those computers sure seemed outstanding at the time - and they were among the initially marketed solid state architectures, though I remember when we upgraded the CDC from core to semiconductor memory. Having been in computers and technology for nearly all of my adult life (retired 10 years ago), a large regret I have in getting old is that I'll miss out on the amazing technology improvements in the next 50 years.

 

[dr34mc4st3r]

The insides of the phone look better than the outside of many other phones