Highlights:
● Not one, but two battery cells. That's a first in an iPhone!
● Stacked logic board design
● The display lifts off and leaves the front-facing camera behind
● iPhone X motherboard is about 70% of the size of the iPhone 8 Plus board
● Apple APL1W72 A11 Bionic SoC layered over SK Hynix H9HKNNNDBMAUUR 3 GB LPDDR4x RAM
● Qualcomm MDM9655 Snapdragon X16 LTE modem
● This phone is packing a 10.35 Wh (2716 mAh at 3.81 V) battery
● TrueDepth Camera: the flood illuminator embedded in the display blasts your face with infrared (IR) light, front-facing camera, confirms the presence of a face, IR dot projector projects a grid of dots over your face to create a three-dimensional map, IR camera on the left reads this map, and sends the data to the phone.
Repairability Score: 6 out of 10
● Display and battery repairs remain a priority in the iPhone's design.
● A cracked display can be replaced without removing the biometric Face ID hardware.
● Liberal use of screws is preferable to glue—but you'll have to bring your Apple-specific drivers (Pentalobe and tri-point) in addition to a standard Phillips.
● Waterproofing measures complicate some repairs, but make difficult water damage repairs less likely.
● Fussy cables tie unrelated components together into complex assemblies—expensive and troublesome to replace.
● Glass on front and back doubles the likelihood of drop damage—and if the back glass breaks, you'll be removing every component and replacing the entire chassis.
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