We performed an iPhone autopsy at Wired News on Friday night. Don’t worry, it’s on Conde Nast’s tab.
Breaking it open was pretty daunting. The iPhone is near impregnable. But we sank a few beers and soon the knife was out.
We learned a few valuable lessons about taking it apart — like don’t drink beer. It’s all detailed here.
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32 responses to “iPhone Autopsy”
Hey ! I like tecate lol
What the hell?
ifixit.com had one disassembled, live and done professionally, hours beforehand.
Bah, What should we expect between you and the hammer idiots on YouTube.
Typical American waste.
I should amend the “hours beforehand” to Friday at 7:43 p.m. PST.
Hey Corny, maybe you should lay off the whiskey before making these posts.
Any fanboi would know that macrumors.com posted the ifixit.com link at 7:43 EST, not PST.
Hey Jameson, meet my stomach.
/drinks bottle.
And the point in that was?
…no, what a terrible waste of an ilife…
Nice! Not that I would have ever bought an iPhone just to take it apart, but you guys just saved me the effort. Beer and mobile devices rarely mix well in my experience.
I’m just wondering what the point is in opening up an iphone? What info was gained?
Dumb. Pointless.
You get to see exactly what you are paying for. You can take a look at the processor to get a good idea of what the future limitations will be regarding software upgrades etc…
You get to see if they are using the same shitty batteries that they foisted on us with the 80GB IPOD’s….
I wonder if they will be setting up a service to take brand new IPhones and replace them with second hand reconditioned units as they did with me???
This seems so pointless! did u break it up more or just tht far?!!
So this expensive toy was designed to be a throw-away! Having a non-replaceable battery really means they don’t have to make the phone last any longer than the battery, hmmmm.
Anyway the whole thing is a couple of years behind other phones that are already available in other countries so it is hard to understand what all the hype is about!
” I’m just wondering what the point is in opening up an iphone? What info was gained?
Terry Scott, on July 2nd, 2007 at 1:42 pm “
The info gained is knowledge that the battery on it cannot be replaced with out voiding the warranty.
All Li-ion batteries loose their capacity over time and when it does on the IPhone users will not be able to replace it and so will have to live with short battery life and constant recharging – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L… – A link for the uninformed
It also seems some people have really have taken offence or been upset over the iphone beening disassembled. Its only a phone after all that has nothing new or ground breaking to offer dispite what Apple say about it, just check out the offerings by HTC.
From what I have heard, best thing to do with the bloody thing. Naught but a fashion item :)
Well, a good experiment but, if the only lesson learned was about the battery.. could just have checked page 23 of the manual.
What’s up with Apple? After having consumers shed $600 + 2 year commitment above basic plan they should at least have respected the owners right to service their own equipment!!!!!!!!!!!
Like, I will shed $150 more (parts, labor and S&H) to have $16 battery replaced? Dishonest or immoral to say the least…