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iPhone 6 Plus Teardown
- meson2k 12y agoQualcomm MDM9625 is the powerhouse behind VoLTE and connectivity. This isn't the latest MDM from Qualcomm though...
- hack4supper 12y agoFor those standing right now in the line up to pick this up at the local Apple Retail Store, if you didn't already know, its got 1GB ram. I had hoped at least time it would be 2GB ram, but alas. As the iPhone 4s will struggle running iOS8 in the same manner this model will struggle running future iOS versions maybe iOS 10 or later.
- aaronbrethorst 12y ago2011 iPhone 4s iOS 5 2012 iPhone 5 iOS 6 2013 iPhone 5s iOS 7 2014 iPhone 6 iOS 8 which suggests that it'll be iOS 11 that the iPhone 6 starts struggling with. That said, I expect you'll have more trouble with the 6 Plus because it's trying to push more pixels around with the same hardware.
- chrisdevereux 12y agoIf the last several iterations of the iPhone have had the same RAM, while being capable of running the newest version of iOS fine, wouldn't that suggest that iOS memory requirements haven't been rising significantly and that something else is responsible for percieved slowdown on upgrade?
- chrisbolt 12y agoiPhone 6 Teardown: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+6+Teardown/29213 https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+6+Teardown/29213
- nemothekid 12y agoPretty amazing that what look likes 80% of the device innards is composed of the battery. The MoBo/SoC is relatively tiny - it looks like you could fit the thing in a smaller space than the RaspberryPi.
- InclinedPlane 12y agoThat's typical, the RaspberryPi isn't exactly optimized for size, as it has a huge number of GPIO pins, for example, and is also designed for low cost of manufacture.
- frarrgraaw 12y agoI find it a tragic that such an efficient, powerful, portable computer is so locked down hindered that it will only ever be used as a phone. I so desperately want to be able to use cost/power efficient computers for desktop use. I waste so much electricity using this hulking tower where I don't need to use it to it's full potential 99% of the time.
- laichzeit0 12y agoDo people really only use these things to "phone"? I spend probably 1% of my time on my mobile actually _phoning_ people. I wonder if this can't be generalized to a lot of other people. If it couldn't make any GSM calls it would only slightly inconvenience me.
- chrisdevereux 12y agoI think you mean Facebook/web machine, not phone. Which is exactly what most people used their (not at all locked down, similarly powerful) laptops for before smartphones existed.
- skrause 12y agoI don't think there is a need to use specialized phone hardware as a desktop computer when computers like Intel's NUC have an idle power consumption of only 6.8W while being an order of magniture faster: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7566/intels-haswell-nuc-d54250wyk-ucff-pc-review/6 http://www.anandtech.com/show/7566/intels-haswell-nuc-d54250...
- emeidi 12y agoAs long there is no Skynet chip in there, I'm good.
- allegory 12y agoNot sure why there is so much gushing over the optical image stabilisation stuff; been in Lumias for over a year now (920/1020 and above).
- zimpenfish 12y agoI would guess that there will have been more iPhone 6+ orders by the end of this month than Lumias-with-OIS ever. That's why people are gushing.