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iPhone 4 taken apart, motherboard found to be incredibly tiny

Categories: Apple, iPhone
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 at 4:10 AM

By now you know that Gizmodo spent $5,000 to get a prototype, non-functioning, next generation iPhone. Whether you think this was a good or bad thing is something you should keep to yourself. What we have today are detailed photographs of said iPhone’s insides, and it certainly tells an interesting story. The entire logic board, motherboard, system board, or whatever you were taught to call it in school, is a thin stick. Look at that picture above, just look at it.

How can you not appreciate that type of engineering?

The battery, which is rated at 5.25 Watt hours and 3.7 Volts, using simple maths, translates to a capacity of 1420 mAh. Smaller than the battery inside devices such as the Nokia E71, E72, E90, E52, and I’m sure there are others. Those Nokia models use a 1500 mAh battery. Imagine how big a battery Nokia could fit inside their devices if they switched to the new microSIM card format?

One more photo after the jump that shows all the pieces next to each other. Again, that black strip with the tape on it is the motherboard. Pretty amazing.

Update: For comparison sake, here’s a photo of the iPhone 3GS motherboard next to the 3.5 screen. Notice how they’re roughly the same size.

About The Author

Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • iTim

    As a tech enthusiast, I love the way things look under the hood :)

  • Mayank Bharadiya

    hey were can i buy iphone4 mootherboard?? can anyone suggest me please??