like clockwork it's September and that
means it's time for new iPhones it's
been two whole weeks since Apple
unveiled the new iPhone 6s and for those
of you who eagerly pre-ordered one I'm
sure the weight has been an eternity
well we feel your pain and as you know
we hate waiting to so we sent a crew to
Australia to be one of the first people
in the world to get their hands on a new
iPhone well guys the wait is over time
to tear down the iPhone 6s
hi I'm Gwendolyn with iFixit and today
we're tearing down the brand spankin new
iPhone 6s while the success might look
the same to the naked eye it's grown a
little since last year coming in at 138
point three millimeters long 67.1
millimeters wide and 7.1 millimeters
deep the 6s has also gained a few grams
coming in at 143 grams which is up 14
grams from last year's model the 4.7
inch LED backlit widescreen display has
a resolution of 1334 by 750 and a pixel
density of 326 pixels per inch of course
we had to mention the addition of a new
color you can now choose from the
original silver space grey and gold as
well as the new rose gold to get into
our new iPhone we start with those
familiar pentalobe screws and notice
that they match the phone's rose gold
color how cute with those out of the way
we turn to our trusty ice clock for help
and popping the hood but this new iPhone
is giving us more resistance than normal
we found the culprit Apple is now using
adhesive strips that line the perimeter
of the iPhone adhesive never stopped us
before
onward with our first look inside a
couple of things jump out at us first we
see a smaller battery to make room for
the new taptic engines with a few flicks
of our spudger we disconnect the battery
in the now three display assembly cables
attaching the display to the logic board
this display assembly weighs in at a
whopping 60 grams a 15 gram increase
over the one found in the iPhone 6 all
those additional capacitive sensors that
Apple integrated into the display
backlight have really beefed up this
display the first thing out of the
display assembly was the upgraded
FaceTime camera that is now 5 megapixels
up from 1.2 megapixels in last year's
version removing the display shield
plate gives us our first look at what we
believe is the 3d touch I see the naming
scheme is similar to other Apple ICS but
we're still trying to verify the
manufacturer next to come out was the
home button with its enhanced touch ID
sensor other than some differing part
numbers there's not much to distinguish
it from the home button found in the
iPhone 6 did we mention we have x-rays
well we do thanks to our friends at
creative electron we got this cool shot
of the new taptic engine the x-ray
radiation reveals a peek at the linear
oscillating mechanism underlying apple's
latest mechanical wonder set to reach
peak output after just one oscillation
with the taptic engine out of the way we
have room to pull on those handy
adhesive tabs and just like that the
battery is out this is a three point
eight bolt six point five five watt our
1715 milliamp hour battery
it's a small but notable decrease from
the 1810 milliamp hour battery in last
year's iPhone 6
even with the light decrease Apple is
claiming performance on par with the
iPhone 6 the rear facing camera is next
out of our 6s this is a 12 megapixel
iSight camera with 50% more focus pixels
which means faster more accurate
autofocus without a drop in quality this
camera has an F 2.2 aperture and is
capable of shooting 4k video at 30
frames per second we finally get a look
at the logic board and it sports a few
nice new upgrades on the board we see
the Apple a9 system on a chip with 2
gigabytes of Samsung lpddr4 RAM and on
the other side of the board we can see
the 16 gigabytes of toshiba made man
flash and the new in XP NFC controller
if you want to see the complete list of
chips check them out on the full
teardown at ifixit.com we've come to the
end of our teardown which means it's
time to talk repairability and 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 1 and 10 10 being the
easiest to repair and 1 being the most
difficult the iPhone 6s scored a
seven out of ten and here's why on the
upside the display assembly continues to
be the first component out simplifying
screen repairs and the battery is
straightforward to access removing it
requires a proprietary pentalobe
screwdriver and knowledge of the
adhesive removal technique but it's not
difficult on the downside the touch ID
cable is still tucked out of the way but
is paired to the logic board
complicating repairs and finally the
iPhone 6s still uses proprietary
pentalobe screws on the exterior
requiring a specialty screwdriver to
remove and that's our teardown to check
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