iPhone 4S Teardown In Progress; Reveals New 3G Chip & Confirms It Has Only 512MB RAM

iPhone 4S Teardown In Progress; Reveals New 3G Chip & Confirms It Has Only 512MB RAM

After several months of rumors and speculations, Apple's new iPhone 4S will finally be available tomorrow.

Folks at iFixit, the teardown experts are at it again, they’re currently in the process of doing what every geek would love to do i.e. to crack open Apple's new iPhone to see what's inside.

Stay tuned if you're interested in finding out what's inside iPhone 4S. Updates will be posted from top to bottom (bottom newest) so stay tuned (hit refresh to get the latest).

Folks at iFixit have just blogged:

iFixit: "Siri, may we disassemble you for all to see?"

iPhone 4S (Siri): "42"

iFixit: "I didn't ask for the meaning of life, Siri..."

iPhone 4S (Siri): "42 is the number of seconds you have left until I initiate the self-destruct sequence..."

iFixit: "Message received."

Apparently Siri is not too happy with our request, but when has a machine stood in the way of iFixit's exceptional team of tinkerers? Join us as we delve deep into the recesses of the new iPhone 4S.

Here are some of the first teardown photos of iPhone 4S:

iPhone 4S battery

iFixit: there it is, an extra .05 WHrs in the battery over the iPhone 4! iPhone 4S Logic Board

iFixit: The iPhone 4S logic board bears a close resemblance to its stateside CDMA counterpart. Once those EMI shields are off, though, we'll have a better idea of where the similarities stop.

One more photo of the logic board:

iPhone 4S comes with Qualcomm MDM6610 chipset (an upgrade from the iPhone 4's MDM6600).

iPhone 4S 1-GHz dual core A5 system on chip (which has been under-clocked to approx. 800MHz)

iFixit: iPhone 4S A5 chip comes with markings 338S0973.

iPhone 4S Retina display - same as iPhone 4's. No surprises there!

iFixit: Out comes the vibrator motor. It appears that Apple elected to go with the linear oscillating vibrator that we found in the Verizon iPhone 4 as opposed to the rotational electric motor with counterweight in the AT&T version. This vibrator motor is quieter, softer, and all-around less annoying than its counter-weighted predecessor.

iPhone 4S rear facing camera

iFixit: How 'bout a close-up of that Apple A5 chip. 1 GHz Dual-core processor with 512 MB of DDR2 RAM...

iFixit: How do we know it's 512 MB? Check out the marking, specifically E4E4, denoting two 2 Gb LPDDR2 die—for a total of 4 Gb—or 512 MB.

So that confirms iPhone 4S only has 512MB RAM.

iPhone 4S front-facing camera

iPhone 4S Completely disassembled

That's it folks! Thanks for joining us here.

[via @iFixit]

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