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      Pixel Fold teardown reveals the guts of Google’s $1,800 phone

      news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 7 July, 2023 - 18:39 · 1 minute

    The Pixel Fold is one of Google's most complicated pieces of hardware ever, but what does it look like on the inside? The Pixel line doesn't get much teardown love from iFixit anymore (despite an official partnership ), but PBK Reviews is still a reliable source for timely teardowns of Google's latest phones.

    As usual, the Pixel Fold is glued together, so you'll have to heat up the back cover and the front screen, and then pry everything off. The camera side of the device has most of the normal phone components, like the three cameras, the SoC, storage, modem, bottom speaker, and USB-C port, and also squeezes in a 1489 mAh battery. The other side is mostly battery, sporting a big 3332 mAh battery, the outer display camera, haptic feedback vibrator, earpiece, and SIM tray.

    It doesn't look like there's much room for repairability. The USB-C port lives on the motherboard, so it'll be tough to replace. PBK Reviews didn't even attempt to pry off the flexible screen due to "a high chance of damaging or breaking the screen," but presumably, there's just a big slab of metal underneath it. With all the parts removed, you can see how the two sides communicate as a series of ribbon cables snake their way through the hinge.

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      iFixit’s iPhone 12 mini teardown finds shrunken components, smaller battery

      Samuel Axon · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 16 November, 2020 - 19:26

    iFixit has posted its teardown of the iPhone 12 mini, and it found inside what seems clear from the outside: a smaller version of the iPhone 12, with no missing features or components. However, some of those components—most notably the battery—are a bit smaller than they are in this phone's 6.1-inch big brother.

    iFixit found that the battery measures in at 8.57Wh. For comparison, the iPhone SE—which actually has a larger body—has a smaller 6.96Wh battery, whereas the much larger iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro both have 10.78Wh batteries. This maps pretty closely to what battery tests have found: the iPhone 12 mini offers better battery life than an iPhone SE or iPhone 8, but it can’t beat its larger siblings.

    Other shrunk-down components found by iFixit include a smaller Taptic Engine and loudspeaker. Also, some display-related components have been moved around, and there are only two display cables (compared to the iPhone 12's three).

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      Sony’s official PS5 teardown shows how the system stand actually works

      Kyle Orland · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 7 October, 2020 - 14:32

    We're still a bit over a month away from the official launch of the PlayStation 5, but we've already got the first public teardown of the console hardware, courtesy of Sony itself.

    The Japanese video (with English subtitles) Sony posted Wednesday morning answers quite a few nagging questions left from previous announcements and recent hands-on time from some Japanese press .

    Chief among them is a demonstration of how the system's circular black stand works. When the PS5 is placed vertically, the stand is held in place with a single large screw. When that screw is removed, it can be stored in a compartment in the base itself, and a small cap fills in the screw hole in the system itself.

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      iFixit’s Apple Watch Series 6 teardown reveals oxygen sensor, Taptic Engine

      Samuel Axon · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 22 September, 2020 - 19:20 · 1 minute

    The Apple Watch Series 6 isn't a radical leap forward from its predecessor. It adds a few new features, like blood-oxygen monitoring, but at its heart, it's the same Apple Watch people have been buying and wearing for a bit now. That said, repairability advocates (and repair-tool vendors) iFixit did a teardown of the Watch to find out just how different or similar it is inside.

    The verdict is that the Series 6 is indeed mostly the same Watch, with a few key differences. First, it opens a little differently—it "opens to the side like a book." This is a slightly different approach to getting inside the Watch. iFixit posits that this change may be possible in part because the hardware for Force Touch has been removed from the Watch, just as it was in recent iPhones. As with the iPhones, Apple has replaced Force Touch with long-presses.

    The battery is notably bigger, at 1.17Wh for the 44-millimeter model and 1.024Wh for the 40mm. That's a modest, single-point increase for both. There are fewer display cables to disconnect when disassembling the device, and there's a larger Taptic Engine in the Watch, too. And of course, iFixit found the pulse oximeter sensor inside.

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