In keeping with tradition, iFixit has started its live teardown of the latest iPhone hardware (an iPhone 6 Plus in this case), revealing all of the device’s internal components for the first time. So far we’ve already seen a 2915 mAh battery, which provides the increased battery life in the much larger of the two models.
The company will likely teardown the smaller iPhone 6 once the Plus model has been fully disected. You can follow along as the company discovers what makes the new handsets tick over on iFixit.com. We’ll keep this post updated as they add new information.
- 2915 mAh battery — almost double the capacity of the iPhone 5s
- Internal components have been reworked to fit inside the new body
- Apple A8 APL1011 system-on-a-chip processor
- The LTE modem is a Qualcomm MDM9625M
- A flash memory chip on the underside of the logic board is a SKhynix H2JTDG8UD1BMS
- The touchscreen controller is a Broadcom BCM5976
- An NXP 65V10 NFC chip with the Secure Element for Apple Pay
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Love these teardowns.
NICE teardown! BIGUP. LOVEIT
If this has 1GB of RAM, it’s going to be bricked like iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 with 3GS specs and 4x pixels can’t run iOS7, like iPhone 4S can’t handle iOS8, like iPad 1’s 256MB of RAM, like iPad 3 with 4x pixel on iPad 2 specs.
Who gives a shit. It will run iOS 8 and iOS 9 perfectly. Thats all that matters.
IPhone 5 will run iOS 11 fine with 1GB and iPhone 6 Plus will lag with less available memory.
@iphone6splus – my iPad Air has a higher resolution than a 6 Plus, it has 1GB of RAM, and runs iOS 8 just fine.
We have an iPhone 5 and 5s here, iOS 8 working fine. Apple does a lot of stuff to avoid needed tons of RAM like the other phones do to give the illusion of speed. Comparing an iPhone to anything else on specs is a fool’s mistake (as multiple years now have shown — the A7 beats quad-core chips with 2GB RAM handily, and that’s last year’s model!)
I have only had problems with iPad Air ram. I have had 3GS, 4 and 5 and no ram issues on any of them.
It only has 1 GB, the site was updated to show it. It’s sad Apple is limiting the developers by taking more and more RAM for the OS and cutting down the ram we have to use to make better apps.
I’m less concerned about this for the phone however, the apps on a phone are relatively small in features (minus games) on an iPad I will be a bit more annoyed if that stays 1 GB.
I’m running iOS 8 on my iPhone 4S and it runs great. Lies…
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/09/ios-8-on-the-iphone-4s-performance-isnt-the-only-problem/
Why people are so crazy about 1GB. Most memory hungry apps used on phones are games. And Xbox 360 which capable of running most of AAA games released till this moment has only 512Mb. Think about it TES: Skyrim runs on 512Mb :)
I don’t disagree with you, however there are some notable differences between the 360 and an iPhone. 360 does not run processes in the background like iOS does and the iOS footprint believe it or not is significantly smaller and more optimized to keep small memory footprint (iOS is more feature rich than a 360). Also like Metal DirectX on the 360 is highly optimized for the hardware.
Is 1 GB enough to make good games? Yes, but you can do a whole host more with more ram (livelier environments, more elements on the screen at once, better AI, less texture loading from disk, etc…). My expectation of Apple is for them to push the envelope a little bit, things like Metal will help but as with the 360 you are starting to get to the limits of what we can do based on the hardware provided.
That is my main argument. I’m not really that disappointed by this, i was just hoping for more as a developer :)
Sometimes it’s nice to go the Apple route and improve the handling of the memory instead of simply tacking on more. Working within constraints and still overcoming the issue are when you see truly great displays of engineering talent.
Except they don’t “improve the handling of memory”, each version of iOS uses more memory than the version before. You can verify this yourself by plugging devices into your Mac opening up Xcode, running Instruments and then selecting the Activity Monitor. As far as handling memory that hasn’t change since the early days of iOS. It’s still receive memory warning, if you can’t free up any memory then say goodbye and return to springboard unexpectedly.
I’m not bashing Apple by any means I just don’t like when people project facts without having any.
@jamesjones_det Ah, I haven’t tested the later iOS versions (still happily running iOS 6 over here!) and personally have only very rarely been in low memory situations. It’s never been an issue but I don’t tax my device very hard; I’m sure there are many who do. That’s very unfortunate if Apple hasn’t improved that over the last two years.
Nice. Repairbility is where it’s at. It’s nice to see the new phone is more approachable than ever.
So 6 have 1810 mAh while 6 Plus have 2915 mAh, but is really 1105 mAh more in 6 Plus than smaller 6? Not actually. The 6 Plus have almost 20% larger display, with DOUBLE of number of pixels… I’m absolute sure that the battery benefice on 6 Plus won’t be more than 20-30% than 6, so forget the specs..
No Samsung components this time? That is a first: probably a very smart first.