Steve Jobs famously said back in 2010
that no one is gonna buy a big phone
well with most people having to wait a
month after Friday's pre-order for their
+ to arrive we'd say it's a hit or
supplies are severely limited to avoid
that month delay we sent our intrepid
teardown crew to Melbourne Australia to
be first in line to get our 6 plus let's
take a look at how this giant is put
together and tear it down
hi I'm Gwendolyn with iFixit and today
we're tearing down Apple's brand new
iPhone 6 plus the iPhone 6 plus is
Apple's biggest phone ever measuring in
at 158 point 1 millimeters in length
seventy seven point eight millimeters in
width and 7.1 millimeters thick if
you're wondering this is right around
the same size as Samsung's recently
announced Note 4 but a little thinner
and lighter as well weighing in 172
grams the 6 plus comes with a 5.5 inch
retina display that has a resolution of
1920 by 1080 and a pixel density of 401
pixels per inch oh and if you're looking
for that power button Apple has moved it
from the top right to the upper
right-hand side of the phone making it
easier to reach on this larger model
before we crack us in the iPhone 6 plus
we take note of a couple controversial
decisions made by Apple first up the two
plastic antenna strips found along the
back of the phone while these help with
the iPhone 6 plus is wireless reception
many people find them unappealing
secondly the now-infamous camera bulge
unfortunately it seems Apple was unable
to shave any thickness off the camera
sensor so it's not flush with the rest
of the chassis while the lens cover is
made out of sapphire glass we are
concerned about what this design choice
may mean for durability right off the
bat we're met with our old friends two
pentalobe screws it doesn't seem like it
would be an Apple product teardown
without them these days fortunately for
us we came prepared and they were out in
a snap with those screws removed and a
little help from our ice black we got
our iPhone 6 plus opened prepared to
meet the touch ID cable we found in last
year's iPhone 5s we opened our 6 plus
with a little extra
here but there's no cable here we're all
cleared to open just like the iPhone 5s
the display assembly cables are held in
place on the logic board by a metal
bracket and once we get that removed the
display assembly comes off and we can
our first unencumbered look inside the
iPhone six-plus onto the battery after
quickly dispatching the battery
connector bracket we begin searching for
the battery adhesive tabs these tabs
make removing the battery super easy
even though it's glued in place but it's
important to note that if you pull wrong
you're in for quite an ordeal and
getting your battery out this battery is
a 2915 milliamp hour battery which is
nearly double the capacity of the iPhone
5 SS which is a 1560 milliamp hour
battery and is also slightly larger than
the Galaxy s5s which is a two thousand
eight hundred million power battery
Apple claims this battery will give you
up to 24 hours talktime on 3G and up to
12 hours of internet browsing with the
battery removed we set to work on the
rest of the phone Hey look the vibrator
assembly is now located to the right of
the battery below the logic board if
you've read reviews of the iPhone 6 plus
you might have heard about the
robustness of its preparation well this
is the guy responsible for it next up we
targeted the rear camera for removal and
all it took was a little tweezer action
for it to come out just like the iPhone
5s this is an 8 megapixel camera with a
2.2 aperture but the iPhone 6 plus
brings new additions to the table
including optical image stabilization
and a focused pixel phase detection
autofocus which we've seen before in the
galaxy s5 what's next how about the
logic board the logic board is only held
in place by a few screws but like other
versions of the iPhone it has an antenna
cable connected to its underside that
needs to be disconnected before we
remove it on the board we find the brand
new 64-bit a8 processor which it seems
has one gigabyte of lpddr3 Rams much to
the disappointment of a lot of people
the board is also home to the 16
gigabytes of sk hynix made flash storage
the updated m8 motion coprocessor the in
Vincents MP
67b six access gyroscope and
accelerometer combo and the NX p65 v10
NFC module and secure element which is
the chip responsible for the iPhone 6
pluses new NFC feature now that we have
the logic board out we have access to
the speaker assembly and lightning
connector it only takes a couple of
screws being removed to get to speaker
assembly out of the rear case and just
like last year's iPhone 5s the Lightning
connector and headphone jack have been
integrated into one cable that is
screwed in and glued on to the rear case
there's not much left in the rear case
but we've still got the power button
ribbon cable assembly and the volume
button ribbon cable assembly both of
these cables consists of tiny components
strung on thin and fragile cables
they're glued into the rear case and
require prying to get off needless to
say the chances are high that you might
damage them during any attempted
disassembly lastly we turn our attention
to the display assembly the display
assembly is home to the front facing
camera assembly that includes the
earpiece speaker the home button which
after removing a metal bracket popped
right off and of course that 5.5 inch
Retina display that is like past iPhones
fused to the front panel cracked glass
still means replacing the display we've
come to the end of our teardown which
means it's time to talk repairability
iFixit it's our mission to teach people
how to repair everything so we give
every gadget we tear down a repair
ability score between one and ten ten
being the easiest to repair and one
being the most difficult the iPhone 6
plus scored a 7 out of 10 and here's why
on the upside the display simply comes
out of the phone first simplifying
screen repairs accessing the battery is
straightforward and not at all difficult
and the fingerprint sensor table has
been rerouted fixing a significant
repair ability issue with the iPhone 5s
and making the phone much safer to open
but on the downside the iPhone still
uses proprietary pentalobe screws on the
exterior requiring a specialty
screwdriver to remove them and finally
Apple does not share repair information
for the iPhone 6 plus two independent
repair shops or consumers and that's our
teardown special thanks to the folks of
Mack Fixit Australia for once again
hosting us on one of our international
tear downs and if you like to check out
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