Michal Ždanský The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus got into the hands of the first users today, and while most of them will treat it with care, iFixit took the two phones uncompromisingly apart to reveal their internal components and find out how easy they are to repair. iFixit has provided a large number of high-resolution photos in the disassembly article, as well as a video that describes the disassembly process and individual components.
Of the published data, the most interesting are those that Apple did not directly talk about - battery capacity and RAM size. The iPhone 6 has a battery of 1 mAh, while the previous model iPhone 810s had a smaller capacity of 5 mAh, which results in a slight improvement in battery life when calling or surfing. The larger iPhone 1 Plus handily outperforms the smaller model thanks to a whopping 560 mAh capacity that helps it last up to two days with regular use. For comparison, the Samsung Galaxy Note 6 with a diagonal of 2 inches contains a battery with a capacity of 915 mAh, while indicating a duration of 4 hours of surfing via W-Fi, the iPhone 5,7 Plus offers an hour less.
A big disappointment is the size of the operating memory, which has not changed since the last iPhone. 1 GB of RAM is already insufficient due to the possibilities of applications and advanced multitasking, and this will be especially evident with further system updates. It is not clear why Apple skimps on operating memory so much, while competing devices offer 2-3 GB of RAM. While running iOS 8, the smaller amount of RAM will not be immediately obvious, but if we want to have a large number of panels open in Safari and switch between applications or play console-quality games, for example, 1 GB of RAM is disproportionately small.
Further information indicates that the LTE model for the iPhone was manufactured by Qualcomm, NFC chips are supplied by NXP and flash storage by SK Hynix. The manufacturer of the A8 processor is not yet known, but it is very likely that it is Samsung again. iFixit rated the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus seven points out of 10 in terms of repairability. In particular, he praised the easy access to Touch ID and the battery, on the contrary, he criticized the use of pentalobe screws.
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so I'll keep 2GB of RAM for the 6sko and 6s.plus, and again I'll ask a very high margin for it, it's really not worth buying these phones this year, I'll be fine with the 5sko :-)